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NINETY - FIRST YEAR OF PUBLICATION
HONG KONG, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1935
RESEARCH PARTY ROBBED
BOWES EXPRESSES
UPSET WORCESTER“
IN AWAY MATCH
(Continued from Page 1)
Valuable Material
Lost
HEADQUARTERS ATTACKED BY THIEVES
MOSCOW PLANS TO SPEND £32,000,000
Municipal Improvement Scheme
Moscow.
Sustaining checks at the hands of Glamorgan and Derby, Yorkshire A great municipal improve- have won their last five matches,ment scheme, involving the ex- having heaten Cambridge Univer penditure of some £52.000.000, [From Our Own Correspondent]
Wachow, May 29. aity. Gloucester, Oxford University, Earlier this month. Dr. A. Sussex, and Worcester, while the has been decided upon by the city Waldeyer and two Chinese assis-midlanders yesterday suffered their of Moscow during 1935. tants. Mr. Fang and Mr. Wa third championship defeat.
The main object of this plan who were engaged in research Scores, as cabled by Beuter, were:fis to set in order the tramways, work under the auspices of the Yorkshire beat Worcester by an waterworks, drainage system Tung-chi University of Woosunginnings and 164 runs at Sheffield and roads, while 97 huge resid- (Shanghai), were the victims of Worcester 92 (Bowes. § for 40) and ential buildings. will also be an attack by robbers in a small 189 (Bowes 3 for 43).
erected. tribal village in North-western Yorkshire: 445 for 5 dec (Satcäffe
200 not out, Wood 123 not out). Kwangsi, where they had estabMIDDLESEX BEAT ESSEX ed and about nine miles of new Tished their headquarters...while Middlesex beat Essex at Lord's ones laid down. investigating the customs and by an innings ́ and 41 runs after The authorities also hope to practices of the Heb-i aborigi-scoring only 298 runs- P. Smith have 12 new schools capable of took 6 of the wickets for 68 runs. holding 62,000 students. ready Prof.-Waldeyer and his two Essex were dismissed for 85, by September this year. Chinese companions were not Sims taking 6 for 28 and in the harmed, but they lost personal follow-on, for 172. R. W. V. Ro- property to the value of about¡bins took 6 for 39.—Beuter. H.K. $500. In order better to 1.
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The tramlines are to be widen-
IMPASSIONED ORATION BY PREMIER
(Continued from. Page 1)
“Whoever refuses me full powers
people the party had made their Tribes The Chinese authorities headquarters in a small thatched refused to give him permission bamboo shed located in one of to work in the danger zone, so the small tribal villages which he changed his plans, and moved to-night and compels us to givet abound in that district. During to the Black-Clothes Miao dis-them another Government within the night the robbers, seeing trict, and it was while he was a few days will deal a severe blov that the but was left unguarded engaged in a scientific study of to the Parliamentary regime and make an attack, and succeeded in the people that the robbery took the franc," he said.
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TWO ANTI-RED. FORCES MEET EN COLLISION
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Kwangtung troops were pro- ceeding towards the -borders
As a result of this mistake,
number 50,000. 'As yet. very The authorities have rather a
language, tribal characteristics. perty. Upon hearing of a rob- religious customs, or everyday bery. the district where the rob- habits of these strange people bery has taken place is imme It is only in recent years that diately visited by the military from Tai Po, while the Nanking the Government has made any and the head men of the district its were advancing from Wing attempt to get in touch with the are told that they must return Ting, the two towns being aboriginal tribespeople, who the stolen goods or their equiva- have been pushed into the moun-lent in money. Each district is separated by only 40 miles. tainous districts of the pro-responsible for the keeping of Tvince with the encroaching of the law and order, and should a rob- the border legions are arranging
Chinese upon their domain. bery take place within its con collisions in the future.
liaison in order to prevent such Mean- WESTERN KWANGSI EXPEDITION fines, the district concerned must:
With the growth of educa-replace the articles stolen.
while Chang Ting-shing's band is scattering itional work in China, attempts
and awaiting! Frequently, this brings great another chance to reunite later. are being made to get at first- hardships on the people of the hand, reliable information con district; because the robbery mountainous and affords good Eastern Kwangtung is very cerning the many tribespeople may have been perpetrated by a hiding places for the Red riff- who inhabit different sections of band of roving brigands who China. It was with this end in have come from some distant sec-1 view that Prof. A. Waldeyer,ition, but because the robbery MD. PHD. headed his expedi- has been committed in their dis tion into Western Kwangsi. It trict the immediate inhabitants was his original intention to fare held responsible.
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