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DANGERS OF INSPECTOR AS SEER. MRS. VICTOR BRUCE. PORTUGUESE DAY. TRAGEDY OF TELEPHONE COMPANY
SHARES
THE LURES OF ICE HOUSE STREET
H.K. REALTY CO.
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In the absence of Mr. Ramsay VOTE TO DECREASE MacDonald, Chairman of the CAPITAL DEFEATED. Imperial Conference, who had gone to the Labour Party Confer-
ence
PROPHESIES SERIOUS ACCIDENT
IN KOWLOON.
THOSE TRICK CYCLISTS.
FRUITLESS SEARCH FOR AIRWOMAN.
ANNIVERSARY OF REPUBLIC
HELD AT SHAMEEN...
THE R101
MEMORIAL SERVICE AT ST. PAUL'S.
ANXIETY IN KARACHI
Karachi, Yesterday.
PREMIER RESIGNS. KING CAROL UPSETS THE CABINET.
NUMEROUS GUESTS.
and MOVING SCENES
BE BANNED ?
FINED.
Failure to Provide.
Warning.
NORTH POINT EXCAVATIONS.*
Canton, Yesterday, "There will be a serious accident
The Consul-General one of these days. Somebody will
Anxiety is felt regarding the
The case against the Hong Kong "go under a 'bus" prophesied Inspec whereabouts of My Victor Bruce, Madame Ferreira da Silva were tor R.H.E. Marks at the Kowloon who was last seen dying over At Home at the Portuguese Con-
failing to provide suficient war- nings to trafike in and around the Police Constable A. H. Stedman 1.15. on October 5 en route to dask terday between 11.30 a.m. and 12.80 p.m., in honour of the an- Police Court this morning when Heniam, in the Patan Gulf, at sulate-General on Shameen yes- HYDROGEN GAS TOephone Commany, Limited, for excavations made by them at North Point, was concluded this morning prosecuted two Chinese trick cyclists from Bushire. before Mr. H."A. Bulters.
Search parties yesterday fruit-niversary of the Portuguese Re-
at the Central Magistracy before P.C. Stedman stated that at 10.45 lessly combed an area of 800 miles public,
London, Yesterday, A large number of guests repre-
Mr. R. E. Lindselt. last night he saw the defendants between Jask and Bunderabbas.—
sending both the official and com- The official memorial service
Kartar Singh, an Indian public Caustic comment of the uncer- with five or six others, riding push Reuter.
mercial circles of Shameen and the for the R.101 victims will be held motor car driver, said he was at Llandudno, and of the
R. B. tainties of the share market, and bicycles in Nathan Road. They
city were received by the host in St. Paul's, London, at noon, on taking a fare down to Quarry Bay Canadian Premier, Mr.
and hostess, as they entered the October 10. The bodies will be on September 19, at about 7.80. Bennett, who, as head of the de-ce House Street in particular, did two circuits of the triangular
reception room, which was charm-brought from Boulogne to Dover When he came to the spot where the ditches were, he noticed a red light. legation from the senior Domin-was made by Mr. F. X. d'Almada, plot at the petrol stations near Gas- junior, who appeared on behalf colgne Road. When he went to
Beauvals, Yesterday, He ayolded that portion of the road, ion, is his deputy, the meeting of the requisitioning shareholders catch them they all cycled away.
ingly decorated with a profusion aboard two destroyers.
The examination of the bodies but after going seventy yards or go, of the heads of the delegations of the Hong Kong Realty and A quarter of an hour later he was this afternoon presided over Trust Company, Ltd., at an extra caught one defendant pushing his ordinary general meeting held in cycle in Public Square Street, and
expressed both his and Madame at Allonne has taken longer than his car got stuck in two holes. He," by Mr. cullin, Premier of Aus-the Exchange Building this morn- whilst on the way to the Police
da Silva's appreciation for the was expected. Only three out of was unable to notice the second light. Station he roped in a second who
Bucharest, Yesterday. tralia, which stands next to ing.
The Prime Minister, M. Maniu, presence of their guests, espe-20 bodies have been identified. from the place where the first light
cially Chairman and Madame The remains have been placed injwa8.
"Mr. Gardner, the passenger ca the Canada in seniority among the The meeting was convened on was coming along Shanghai Street. the requisition of the sharehold-
Inspector Marke intimated that leader of the Peasant Party, who Chan Ming-shu, General and coffins of polished oak and were Dominions.
ers of the Company holding in the he had a few words to say. The brought back King Carol from Madame Au Yang Kue, and Ad- brought from the Town Hall car at the time, groborativa
had received many com- exile, resigned as a sequel to trou-miral Chan Chak, on the occasion of Beauvais by motor vans and evidence. The meeting completed pre-aggregate upward of one-tenth of Police liminary discussions of various the issued share capital of the plaints about these Chinese who rode ble with his colleagues. It is gen- the 20th anniversary of the placed in the chapelle ardente.
Republic of Portugal. He then There were moving scenes and re- was proved, and, in Imposing a fine constitutional aspects of inter- Company; and for the purpose of on hired bicycles, making circles erally believed that the relations
rested with the watchman who gerous and the Police had to keep are really at the bottom of the to the health of the President of and Beauvais
might not have laid the lights out properly and that they were also (1) That no portion of the pre-a continual check on these tricks-
of ters. uninvested moneys dent
not well cleaned. The Company be utilised by
STRAINED RELATIONS.
of white flowers.
Promptly at noon Mr. da Silva made a brief speech in which he
His Worship/neld that the case
Imperial relations begun last considering the following, resolu- in Nathan Road. It was very dan-between the Cabinet and the-King called upon those present to drink verential crowds both at Allonne of $50, said that the fault probably
week, and referred various mat- tars for examination, and report to the Committee set up under the Chairmanship of Lord Sankey.
Among the matters so dealt with was the question of nation. ality and the question of an ap- peal of a citizen in a Dominion to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
These questions are hedged about with complicated legal and technical issues, which the legal minds of the Sankey Committee will consider in the light of experi ence since the decisions of the last Imperial Conference four years ago.
Past Procedure,
tions:
Mr. Butters imposed a fine of $8
the Board of Directora by in- on each with the alternative of, in: vesting lending or otherwise the first case, a week's jail, and, -dealing with same without the in the latter, six strokes of the sunction of the shareholders cane.
of the Company in general meeting.
terprises into which the Company
(2) That the capital of the Com-entered.
pany be reduced from $2,000,- 000 divided. Into
"This la nota fight between the 200,000 requisitioners and the sharehold-! shares of $10 each to $600,000 ers," declared Mr. d'Almada. "It divided into 200,000 abarest merely an attempt on the part who are of $3 each and that such of certain shareholders reduction
éffected be
by requisitioners in this cane to voice returning to the holders of their views in regard to the in- of the Company's "the 200,000 shares. that have vestment
been issued paid up capital to moneys."
Mr. d'Almada then gave a list the extent of $7 per share and by reducing
nominal of figures relative to the sale and the
of the said allowances on the building, and amount of each
stated that the total sum paid for shares from $10 to $3.
$2,400,000, purchase was the
The following Directors of the
crisis.--Reuter.
STILL FINE.
The Royal Observatory's weather report, to-day states:
A belt of high pressure ex- tends from S.W. China to N.E. Japan and a trough of rela- tively low pressure from the China Sea to Guam.
Forecast-E, winds, moder- ate; fine.
Rainfall Rainfall to am. to-day all. Rainfall since January 1, 94.75 inches against an aver age of 77.60 inches.
Temperature. The temperature at certain apecified centres this morning
at 6 o'clock was:-
Hong Kong
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78
Macao
Pratas Island
77
The
Manila.
74
Foochow
Amoy Swatow Chefoo Shanghai
70
As to the nationality question, in the past citizens of the Com- Company were present: Messrs. J. $1,750,000 having been paid by the monwealth took British nation-Scott Harston (Chairman), P. H. purchaser on mortgage. The gross Director), receipts were $28,000 per month (Mannging ality as a natural course, but in Suckling
$275,000 per annum. recent years the Dominions have E. M. Raymond, Leo d'Almada, or developed their own nationalities sen., the Hon Sir Shou-son Chow, gross receipts, less light, vacancy, as distinct units within the Com- and Messrs. M. H. Turner (aoli- tax, and other allowances, amount- This monwealth. Although remaining citor to the Company), P. K.ed to $280,000 per annum.
capitalised at 7 per cent. comprehensively British, the Kwok, J. Fleming, and C. F. sum
amounted to $3,200,000, showing question arises whether any ad- Ribeiro (Secretary).
Sale of Exchange Building. that the purchaser paid 62,400,000 vantage lies in having seven
The Chairman, in the course of for building which was worth nationalities within British citi- zenship. This will be discussed in a few preliminary remarks, re- $3,200,000.
The possibility of a contingency all its implication, with emphasis called the last meeting on July 2, laid upon the advantages of con- for the purpose of obtaining the arising was now more remote than tinuing both in some form of Bri- confirmation of the shareholders ever, yet the Directors (who did to consider any such tish as well as individual Com-for the sale of the Exchange not seem
Building and the policy of em- contingency as likely to arise last monwealth citizenship.
The Sankey Committee, to ploying the purchase money deriv-June) thought that the which these and many more tech-ed from such sale, by investing should be retained, not immedi nical matters are being referred, it in the most profitable manner ately, but should be invested in holds its first meeting to-morrow. in shares and securities in Hong shares.
Kong and elsewhere; which would
British Wireless Service.
NORTHERN WAR.
KUOMINCHUN ECACUATE LUNG-HAI ZONE.
FALL OF KAIFENG.
Uncertainties.
sald
money
ATTACK ON RECORD. ANOTHER FLIGHT FROM HOME
~TO. AUSTRALIA.
Portugal, General Antonio Oscar Fragoso Carmona.
Hydrogen Condemned.
Berlin, Yesterday. The Guests.
Commenting on the R.101 dis- The following is a list of the faster, both the newspapers and aviation experts, including Dr. ¡quests:-
General and Madame Chan Ming-shu, Admiral Chan Chak, General Chan Chai-tong, General Au-yang Kue, Mr. Yeeshing L. C.) Tao, Mayor Lin Yun-kai, Captain W. K. Lay, Captain Y. G. Fong, Captain Chan Ding, Lt.-Com, Shao Lang-lee, A.D.C., Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Leung, American Consul- and Mrs. General
Douglas Jenkins and the staff of the American Consulate General, Consul-General," Mr. H.B.M.'s
Herbert Phillips and the staff of Consulate General, the British
and Consul-General H.IJ.M'.s Mrs. Y-Suma and the staff of the Japanese Consulate-General, the Acting German Consul-General, Mr. G. A. Sakowsky, the Consul of France and Mme. L. Eynard, the Consul for Switzerland and Mrs. 1. Spaldinger, the Consul" for Denmark, Mr. K. Neckelman, the Consul for Netherland and Mrs. J. J. Wierink, the Consul for Fin- land, Mr. A. Schubert, the Vice- Consul for Norway, Mr. R. K. Batchelor, the Vice-Consul for Sweden, Mr. H. J. Campbell, Bri- tish S.N. Officer, Capt. Bidham- Wetham.
Dr. Eckener.
on each coffin, is being sent by air from Britain.
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Watched Day and Night.. The salon of the Town Hall has a chapelle been prepared as ardente, and the coffins have been covered with wreaths of flowers
A- by the citizens of Beauvais, guard of honour consisting of ex-Service men and nurses are keeping watch over the coffins day and night, while the public file past the open door of the salon...
The bodies will be taken to the Cathedral at ten o'clock to morrow morning, when the Bishop of Beauvais will conduct a memor- ial service. They will then be conveyed on gun carriages to the station and placed on a special train for Calais. A regiment of Spahis will render military hon- ours and troops, from the garri-. sons of Beauvais, Compiegne, and Senlis will line the streets.
Paris, Yesterday. The British Ambassador, Lord Tyrrell, has left for Beauvais.
Seven Survivors.
London, Yesterday. The Air Ministry officially an- nounce that a total of 55: persons Eckener, emphasise the necessity was aboard the R.101, namely, of all airships being fitted with that 46 bodies have been recover- non-inflammable helium gaa in-ed; there was one death in hospi stead of hydrogen.
tal, and there remain seven sur- It is hoped that the United vivors. This agrees with the list States, which has a monopoly of of persons aboard when the air- Britain to Australia flying record The Commandant and officers helium and forbids its export ex-ship left Cardington.
cept in very limited quantities. A letter is being sent to the re-
General Burial? Flying Officer Chabot and Major of the U.S. gunboat Helena; Pickthorne left Croydon on a De Mr. C. E. Braud, Commissioner will now raise the embargo.
The British Government has in-latives of all the victims. of the of Customs; Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Havelland Puss Moth,
The Cothmanders and officers of H.B.M. Tantantula and Cicala;
French S. N. Officers, Comman- Rugby, Yesterday.dant C.. Cande and the officers of An attempt to establish a new the French gunboat Argus;, m
was begun at dawn to-day when
By alternately taking over the Wolcott, Mr. Fourgnet, Mr. and vited Dr. Eckener to London to R101 disaster, suggesting that in controls and flying during the night Mra. G. W. D. Olivacrona, Mr. and give expert evidence. as well as day, they hope to reach Mrs. T. Brammeld, Mr. and Mrs. Monopoly of Hellum.
J. H. Ferguson, Mr. and Mrs. J.
New York, Yesterday, Australia in seven days.
U.S.A. Condolences
be better than allowing the money "But if you are consistent in Mr. to lle in the Bank earning one per your contingency," cent. Interest: The Chairman ex-d'Almada, "you cannot allow your
view of the impossibility of iden- pressed the opinion that the wis money to be invested in shares.
tifying the great majority of the est course would be to leave the The glorious uncertainties of matter to the discretion of the cricket are nothing as compared
bodies, all the bodies be accorded Directors, as heretoford.N to these of Ice House Street. You
No wireless is carried, but the Carnegie, Jun., Mr. and Mrs. Senator Britten, chairman of the honour of general burial, with *This Fine Edifice."
cannot risk your money (the sum Mr. F. X. d'Almada, in present of $1,750,000, paid annually. by equipment includes a collapsible Nielsen, Mr. and Mrs. Mowbray the Naval Affairs Committee, a view to a single memorial being. ing the case of the requisitioning the mortgagees) in fluctuating fabric boat inflated by a hand Jones, Mr. J. J. Palmer, Dr. R. Lspeaking in the House of Repre erected at their resting place,
Lancaster, Dr. Riegenbach, Dr.sentatives to-day, announced that probably at Cardington. Nanking, Sunday.
shareholdera, gave a brief account shares, for the whole of it may be pump
Washington, Yesterday. The report regarding the cap-of the history of the Company lost. The uncertainties of invest The officers have divided the and Mme. Guillaume, Mr. and Mrs. he will sponsor legislation to per- ture of Kaifeng by the National- which, he said, had been founded ing in the share market are far route Into nine stages, of which the T. C. Germain, Mr. and Mrs. Vmit the exportation of helium gas ists has been officially confirmed. in 1923 for the sole purpose of greater than were the uncer- longest is 1,500 miles. British Ferrier, Mr. and Mrs. Annett, Mr. for the use of foreign Govern- President Hoover has tele. and Mrs. G. H. Birdick, Mr. and ment aircraft as a result of the graphed his condolences to H.M. Railway service between Hsuchow building "this fine edice." At tainties of purchasing this build- Wireless Service.
Mrs. Servantin, Major C. Willson, catastrophe to the R.101. King George and Mr. Ramsay Government circles in this con- MacDonald on the R.101 disaster. and Waifeng was resumed on that time money was plentiful, ing."
Personnel of Commission. H. S. Kavarana, Mr. and Mrs. Anection draw attention to the pos- October 4, The Kuominchun and prospects were exceedingly Mr. D'Almada added that when WORK OF LEAGUE. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Arndt, Mr.
De Beauvais, Later. Hogg, Mr. Lee Fong, Capt.sibilities of the exhaustion of were given no time to damage the rosy The building was complet the negotiation were being put
So far the bodies of only five railway tracks during their hasty ed in 1926. Thus the main object through there was a persistent LECTURE BY BELGIAN EX-
Rutherford, Harbour Master, Mr. United States bellum by exporta- evacuation. We had, been fullled and was being rumour of a possible amalgama-
MINISTER AT NANKING.
and Mrs. H. Watling, Mr. and Mrs. tion, and the arming of other members of the crew of the R.101 tion between the Realty and Trust
Stappleton-Cotton, Mr. and Mrs nations with a military facility at have been positively identified. With the fall of Chungmou and carried out.
Nanking, Yesterday. Kalfeng, the Kuominchun have In the Memorandum of the Company and another local com-
B. F. Fostel-Gall (Deputy Com-present absolutely controlled by They include Potter, who survived
the R.88 disaster. M.Emile Vandervelde, the Bel-missioner of Customs), Mr. and the United States. decided to evacuate the entire Articles of Association of the pany. The shareholders thought
Victims Identified. Lung-Hai line, massing their Company, there were other objects that they should have been con-
invitation of Dr. C. T. Wang and Cleopatra, Dr. I. H. Otto, Mr. and troop at Hsinhsiang for fur mentioned, but these were sub-sulted before any steps whatsoever gian ex-Minister, has accepted there. Barron, M. and Mrs.
Beauvais, Yesterday, ther withdrawal to Shihchia eldiary and ancillary to the main were taken, chwang, and leaving Chengchow objects, The reason why he urg A Disastrous Precedent. Mr. Hewlett to addrest member Mrs. Glelman, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Guarded by soldiers with fixed sists of eight British and four city to be guarded by the "grey" ed that they were subeldiary was As an instance of the undesir- of the Nanking International Club Watson, Mr. and Mrs. G. M. D.
all morning in the Town Hall at dron-Leader Booth, the Comman troops under Sun Tien-ying, that when the Directors came to ability of of consulting, the share at lancheon on October 9. The Wolf, Mr. and Mrs. R. Cajlain de bayonets, the bodies were lying French experts, including Squa-
the actual investment of the pro-holders in matters of polley, Mr. subject of the speech is The In Prisgne, and Mr. and Mrs. Allonnes the scene of the der of the R.100. Since Hsinhsiang is guarded by coeds of the sale of the building D'Almada gave the, example of a tornational Organisation of the Sandstrom
-san's troops who have (Clause 6); and that by a chuse certain local company which was League of Nations."Canton News
loyal to the Central in the Articles concerning the in- also formed in 1928 for the main A
it 18 questionable
vestment in land, shares, steal purpose of dealing
though they were empowered to proper
Kuominchum will be assemble or to pa HainhatangCanton
BIRKENHEAD
Buch moneys without first
holders, they
ROYAL NUPTIALS.
DECISION OF THE
NOT READY
The personnel of the commisalon of inquiry is announced, and con
disaster, the British Air AttacheIt is understood that a definite and a, doctor arrived and began total of 46 bodies recovered, have MR. LENOX SIMPSON. the work of identification. It been finally reached by counting proved a long and difficult task. hoskulls of these remains, and REPORTED TO BE HOLDING HIS The Air Ministry supplied a Het Radcliffe's body will be borne to
SOWNE
CONDITION BETTER
days tal thi
of the valuables and trinkets the railway station by 47 gun car- carried by the victims, s tliese ringes. The two destroyers which Laret the sole means of Identifica have been detailed to convey the coffins to Britain are the Tribute tion. Some
Lain only
and the Tempest Reuter Identifiable by
thomage to Gallant Men
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Rugby Yesterday
When the heads of the delega tions to the Imperial Conference lay their first act was to (Continued on Fore
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