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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1929.
MR. HAVELOCK WILSON
DEAD...
A FIGHTING LABOUR LEADER.
"THE SEAMEN'S FRIEND."
(THROCOR REUTER'S AGENCY.)
LONDON, April 16. The death is announced of Mr. Joseph Havelock Wilson, founder and President for 33 years of the National Union of Seamen,
Mr. Havelock Wilson was pearly 12 years of age, and in spite of his physical disabilities was very active. In his autobiography be describes his career as a
stormy voyage, At the age of six he was selling newspapers in the streets of Sunderland, barefooted,
SINGAPORE GIRL'S DEATH.
"DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT
CRITICISED."
SHANGHAI-NANKING LINE.
EXTENSION PLANNED.
Nanking. April 11-A project tó extend the Shanghai-Nanking Rail way so as to cope with the increas Singapore, April 10:The in-ed passenger and freight service on quiry by the Singapore Coroner, the Line has been submitted by the Administration Depart. Mr. F. G. Bourns, into the death Raliway of the 12-year-old Chinese girl ment of the Ministry of Railways. whose body was found in a lane oll Synagogue Street recently was
uncluded yesterday afternoon
Death was found to have beou due to natural causes, and that a Chinese woman, who was stated to have adopted the girl, was arrested an a charge of causing, the body to be deposited in this lane.
Dr. McIntyre told the Cotoner that death was caused by peritonitis following gastric ulcer of perhaps. three months duration. The ulcer would in his opinion have yielded to mellical treatment.
During the last three days before. He ran away to sea at the age of 12, and got work on an other death the girl must have been Failing barque, but before the in such agonising pain that it sailed he
was taken back to should have been, obvious to anyone Sunderland. A fortnight later be that she needed a doctor's atten-
antion. ran away again. shipping as engineer's boy.
Marrying young. he settled at Sunderland, made his first open air speech at 20, and formed a National Seamen's Union in 1887 It is largely due to his work that lite at sea has been so changed in the last 37 years.
La Parliament.
In returning a verdict of death from natural causes, the coroner said he did not think the woman and man with whom the girl lived realised how serious was their neg ect to provide medical attention, and in those circumstances be did Do think there were sufficient grounds to justify a verdict of negligence. Their conduct, how- ever, had certainly been disgrace- He sat for Middlesbrough from 1802 to 1900 and from 1900 to 1910ful. He understood they were be and for South Shields From 1018 to ing prosecuted, and he was going to forward his record of the inquiry 1992 as a Liberal-Labour M.P, Ho did not hold with the new political the Protector of Chinese.--
His Straits Times... type of Trade Unionism. Union cat adrift from politics in the summer of 1927 and since then its income has increased by £1,000 a week. In view of the fact that it had supported and financed the Miners' Non-Political Union and other organisations opposed to the principles laid down by the Trades Union Congress the latter expel led it from membership in Septem.
ber, 1929.
For his services during the war Wilson was made a C.B.E., while in 1829 he was created a Companion of Honour.
MR. SNOWDEN ON WAR
DEBTS.
"FRANCE BILKING HER OBLIGATIONS.
A BITTER CRITICISM.
ह
(THROUGH RELTER'S AGENCY.]
Lopos, April 16.
to
SINGAPORE'S ESCAPED
CONVICTS.
ONE CAUGHT IN JOHORE.
Singapore, April 10-Another of the 13 convicts who escaped from the Singapore Prison on March 24 has been arrested.
The man fired at a policemen who stopped a car in which the convict was passing through a village in Johore yesterday evening with Reveral other Chinese. One of these men shot himself after exchanging shots, while running away from police.
Kulai village is 20 miles north of Johore Bahru, and such details of the affair ng are to band ere meagre. It is known, however, that the convict is Yip Siew Leong, who was serving a term of sever years on charges. of armed robbery and assembling to commit robbery It was during his arrest in Vic toria Street in March, 1926 that Mr. Dickinson, A.S.P., was fired
...
Following the arrest of this man, information has been obtained of the whereabouts of three other
cap from
The scheme provides for:- 1. Extension of the line to Wuhu which is an important port of transit for Antwti province.
9. Laying of double tracks be tween Shanghai and Nanking,
3 Laying of doable. träcks in aking frem Haakwan to Hsin- chehmen.
4. Extension of the Line from Soochow to Changahu.
5.
Extension of the Line to link Wusih with Kiangyin.
6. Construction of a branch line connecting Wusib and Thing.
7. Extension of the Shanghai: Woosing Railway to Paoshan.'
Gibralter on Tuesday.
NAVAL MOVEMENTS.
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HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
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In the House of Commons, in the course of the Budget debate, Mr. Philip Snowden (Labour Party ex- Chancellor of the Exchequer) bit terly criticised the settlements with
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Cole, 171 boy. early capture.
De
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That the Labour Party may pos- sibly re-open the whole question of the European Allies debts if re turned to power was emphasized in the House of Commers by Mr. Snowden, who condemned the finan cial settlements with the Continent and repudiated the "infamous Balfour Note, which provided that Great Britain should not demand more from her debtors than she was required to pay the United States. Mr. Snowden said he did not sub- scribe to the doctrine of that agree ment made by a Government with a temporary majority of the House of Commons and which committed every other Party,
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who fired the first shot was seized the others leaped out of the car. Other policemen rushed up and the Chinese dashed off with the police after them. Shots were ex- changed, and it was while he was tunning away that one of the men shot himself and died instantly. One of the policemen was slightly wounded in the side.
The man who shot himself is not an escaped convict, but he is a per- son well known to the police in Singapore.-Straits Times.
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Important matters in dispute be tween the States themselves and be- tween States and the paramount the Yangtsze, in succession to Rear- Power and between States and Admiral H. J. Tweedie,- and will British India should be referred assume the Command on October 15 to independent committees for ad-
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