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登拜曲 號十月十英港香 MONDAY,
OCTOBER 10, 1921
日十初月九
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BRITISH NORTH BORNEO.
THE PEAK “AT HOME.
KOWLOON STABBING
Officer's Sensational Charges Against the Company.
(Reuter's Service.)
Recognition of Pre-War Debts.
(Reuter's Service, }
Brussels, October 9.
Paris, October 9. A message from Riga notes that Trotsky has escaped a fresh at- tempt upon his life. Dynamite cartridges were placed on a railway with the object of wrecking his train, but a goods traiz, which came first was blown up and forty waggons destroyed, with many Casualties
Petrograd Soviet Declares State of War.
Reval, October 9.
A Petrograd message states that the Soviet there has pro- elsimed a state of war in Petrograd from October 1. There were many desertions from the Communist party last month owing to famine and the opposition of the pessants, who favour private ownership of land.
INDIAN CONGRESS AND THE PRINCE'S VISIT.
Provincial Committees Urged to Arrange Boycott.
Bombay. Octobe: 9.
ROYALTY AT THE MANCHESTER ROYAL EXCHANGE.
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The King's Hope.
London, October 9.
"Hampstead Heath "Round the Flag Staff.
Yesterday W25 the Chaung
AFFRAY.
A Serious Affair.
TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO
AUSTRALIA!
Marconi Describes his New Inventions.
ELIMINATING SPACE.
*Provided
communication
the
with this
Twelve thousand people enthusiastically greeted their Majesties/Pilgrims made the whole journey men had had some previous | «bly utilised at once as a reliable
at the Assembly Hall of the Royal Exchange, Mancheste-Sir Arthur Haworth read a loyal address in which it was mentioned that the Exchange now covered 44% acres and had a membership of eleven thousand representing two thousand firms operating 60,000,000 spindles and 600,000 tooms, with a capital of £300,000,0x0.
The King replying, said that was his earnest hope that the ceremony would prove the starting point in a steady and ever. increasing development of the trades which centred in the Exchange, and thus promote cordial relations between peoples united by com-
A working committee of the National Congress and Khilafar workers bas passed a resolution advocating a general strike through-mercial ties. out India on the day of the arrival of the Prince of Wales at Bombay and urging provincial committees to arrange a toycott on the oc- casion of the visits of the Prince to their respective cities.
LAIRD LINER SINKS IN THE FIRTH OF CLYDE.
The "Rowan in a Double Collision.
KOWLOON CRICKET
CLUB.
Saturday's Dance.
AEROPLANE PHONES.
In the perfecting of wireless telephones great progress bad been made, and the whole of the British aeroplanes flying on the London-Paris route had been equipped with the Marconi ystem. The system had reach- ed such a stage of efficiency that a pilot of an aeroplane could operate it with certainty covering ranges of 200 miles.
London, October 9.
Two men wore last night re- The International Commission for Russian Relief closed its Amazing allegations against the British North Boraso Company Yeong Festival, on which day the moved to the Kwong Wab session after voting & resolution which, frstly, fecommends the are made in the current issue of the Century Magicur by Major EChinese alibto the summit of the Hospital as the result of an attack sanding of a technical committee of inquiry into Russia and co-Alexander Powell, who asserts that opion-smoking sod gambling highest hill in the district with carried out by a gang of men, at ordinating the efforts of charitable societies; secondly, points our are officially encouraged in order to swell the revenues, and that the intention of rising above the Kowloon Garage of the opportunity of creating, wireless
they had that no real solution of the problem can be found unless a way to imported labourers are held in a form of servitude not far removed trouble and distress. The highest Dragon Moto Car Company. telegraphic service between here normal production in Russia is restored; and, birdly, states that from slavery. Recalcitrant labourers are logged and the event point in Hongkong being the Ocs of the victims was a driver and Australia, it was quite with the credits demanded of the Governments by the Soviet cannot be of an insurrection the constabulary are largely recruited from savage | Peat, it was there that our of the Company who, with his in the realms of possibility that granted unless the Soviet gives adequate guarantees and recognises tribes, who are permitted to decapitate prisoners and pile the ghastly Chinese friends yesterday wend friend, were in the garage at the they might thereafter supply Mr. pre-war debts--Haras.
trophies into s pyramid in the principal plaza of the capital
ed their way. The trams were time when the attack, which was Hughes with a telephonic means Sir West Ridgeway (Chairman of the Company), fat-rviewed, packed all day long and to conducted with choppers and of Trotsky's Train Escapes, but Goods Train Suffers.
declared the allegations a tissue of lies. He supposed that they fobtain a seat it meant waiting knives, was made. Ona of the country." were written by someone with a grudge against the Company, and for sometime io quene, victims sustained about twenty This was one of the possibilities could not understand how they could be published in a magazine of reminiscent of the rationing days ats good standing. It was a very serious matter, and must be dealt with at Home. Some who had not ne The only witness of the affair in describing new inventions and [enggested by Sanstore Marconi properly.
patience to line up at the Peak was the wife of the driver who important improvements ju wire- Tramway Station went as far up was attacked and sustained a cut lee apparatus at the annual the hill as they could in motor on the left shoulder. The two meeting of the Marconi Company cars, finishing the journey by men were afterwards removed to at the Connaught Rooms, London. chair or *shanks pony **. The the Hospital, where their wounds
Considerable progress had taken chair coolies did a record trade were seen to by Dr. Smalley.
place in regard to wireless tele (and there was a continuous pro- It is believed that the attack phony, he said, and he had no cession of them on the Peak was instigated by two private doubt that this new method of Roac. The majority of the drivers with whom the assaulted communication might be profit- an foot.
quarrel. The police have con-system between a great number The hill road leading the Peak ducted investigations in accord- of places, besides for communica-
Ance with this information battion with ships at sea. was thronged all day long, a nerer-scding procession ascendbare not succeeded in making fing and descending all the time. any arrents.
Coolies and clerke and tradesmen and taipans, with their wives nod their concubines, and their sons and their daughters, people in all walks of life sad ranging in age from babies in arms.to grey-beards with over half a century to their credit, thes were all there, pasting and laughing and everybody happy - Enterprising street vendore took The Kowloot Cricke: Club held their stock in trade up the hill their last al fresco evening f the and occupied, vantage points season on Saturday night, the every few yards. The refresh usual concert being replaced by ment offered was various. Alan open-air- dance, for which kinds of cakes were exposed for music was provided by the Wilts.
EPOCH-MAKING RESULIŞ.. sale and fruit galore. Nestly Regimental Band The grounds
sugar CEDE WEA were illuminated in the usual! Being satisfied with the en- chopped mp temptingly displayed in small attractive manner and the snack couraging results obtained in rows, and other vendore did counter and bar were as busy as London to prevent interruptions brisk business with bright-ever. The dance did not draw of messages, particularly by what ly coloured mineral waters, nearly so many people as did the are known as "atmospherics,” he the botti-s placed in serried concerta, but there were a large had the apparatos installed on ranks by the side of the narrow camber present and all appeared his yacht and tested it at sea. road. "The world and his wife to be having a really good time.
The results were satisfactory. went up the Peak yesterday. An excellent programme was "I then went to the Welsh Probably more people walked up rendered by the Wilts. Regi- coast," be continued, "and carried the hill that day than in all the mental Band, under the very abla out tests at our receiving station rest of the days of the rear pat directorship of Bandmaster Eat-t Towyp. The results obtained together, and one had to put up son, their mixed melodies being daring the last few weeks are of with a great deal of pushing and particularly well rendered. Fox signal importance. jostling before the top was trots, ont-steps, waltzes and all If we have not completely reached.
the usual popular dances were mastered the troubles arising from Around the flag staff was like indulged in, and from start to adverse atmospheric conditions a miniature Hampstead Heath on faish the evening was a great we bave gone far enough to en- able me to tell you that this work a bank bolidsy, rcinus most of success.
is of transcendental importance the European amusements. It
and epoch making in the conduct was highday and holiday for
of wireless telegraph services. tbe kiddies, and their musical efforts on squeakers" sold by
throughout the world.. some enterprising hawker gavo a real bank holiday touch to the scene. The kite vendors did a roaring trade and the air was;
H&H AS TERPSICHOREAN, dotted with their wares. joyous youngsters bad a fine time, vieing with one another as
Addressing the Congress of the Rear Admiral, Crawford Mac-
of to who could get their kits the Lachlan, who has been posted to Imperial Society Deaco bighest, and incidentally getting the Chios, Squadron, arrived at Teachers at the Holborn Restaur- in everybody's way and tying Hongkong yesterday on the P. sot, London, Major Cecil Taylor, everybody and everything up in and 0. steamer Karmala from the president, said there was no their string. The sedat and London, Pay-Commander Loste-greater lover of better exponant MISSIONARIES COME TO the Flaming & Revell Company; scene of gaiety for many a long Lient Shephard, also arrived on the Prince of Wales.
sacred Peak has not been such a Moon, Capt R. Eliot and Pay-of modern bail-room dancing than FAR EAST.
The committee opined that the Congress should inform fureign States that the Government of India in nowise represented Indian opinion, and that India, as a self-governing State fearing nothing from her neighbours, does not intend to establish trade relations co- desirable to her. The committee declared that Indians regarded nost treaties between their neighbours and the Imperial Gorern- not as mainly designed to perpetuate the exploitation of India. and therefore urges States to refrain from entering into such treaties. The committee, in conclusion, assured Mossulman States that re- spect for their religious obligations would be a guiding factor in framing Indian foreign policy.
THE L. o N. BUDGET.
Allocation of Contributions.
Geneva, October 9. How the expenses of the League of Nations are distributed among the members is exemplified by the following figures, which show the units payable by each State: British Empire and France. rach 90: Italy, India, China, Japan each 65; Canada. 35; Australia, South Africa, and the Netherlands, each 15; New Zealand. Persia, Greece, Portugal and Siam, each 10.
Head of French Naval Mission to Conference.
Paris, October 9. The Matin understands that Vice-Admiral Debon, formerly Commander of the French Fleet in the Levant, his been appointed Chief of the Naval Mission #bich will accompany M. Briand to Washington.
THE ECONOMIC SITUATION.
French Premier on Improved Relations with Germany.
St. Nazaire. October 9. M. Briand, who who was accompanied by six members of the Cabinet, in a speech stated that the French (Government had con-
dence in the present German Government.
Referring to the problems of fluctuating exchanges' the French Premier dwelt with the paradoxical situation by which Germany enefited as the result of economic competition throughout the world, while peoples whose rate of exchange was highes: find even in their
wealth causes of impoverishment. He hoped that the great financiers of the world would recognise the necessity of settling the situation. which could never and complete equitibrium unless world-wide solidarity was brought to bear.
THE WASHINGTON CONFERENCE.
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1. S. Church's Call to Religious Bodies.
Washington, October 9.
London. October 9. The Laird liner Rowan, from Glasgow to Dublin with a crew of 37 and 6 passengers, sant off the West of Scotland after a double collision. Of the crew 24 and of the passengers 53 were saved. Two of the latter subsequently died. The disaster occurred in a dease fog at the entrance to the Firth of Clyde. The Rowan was badly damaged. The first collision was with an American vessel a wire less message for help was sent, and the Clan Malcolm was among the responses. The Rowan collided with her and then foundered.
U.K. TRADE RETURNS.
Features of September Figures.
Loudon, October 9. The trade returns for September (see Earlier Cables) show that imports of raw cotton decreased by £4.846,000, and that exports of manufactures decreased by £58,406,000 including a decrease o £24,548,000 in cotton manufactures.
RIOTING AT MADRAS MILES,
Quiet Restored.
Simla October 9. An official communique states that rioting started in the mill area of Madras this afternoon. Bombs were thrown at the police, who fired on the mob, one being killed and eight wounded. The troops subsequently partrolled the area. The night was quiet.
(Other Telegrama"on Papis 2, 3 and 5)
Silver State Carries Big Number.
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New York. Mr. Saunders will
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NEW REAR ADMIRAL
FOR CHINA.
Other Officers Arrive.
CHIEF JUSTICE RETURNS.
meats with the Post Office, they Subject to satisfactory arrange- Roped in the near future to create telephonic services with several foreign countries.
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News in To-day's New Advertisements.
teach at the Graves Theological day. (the residents are probably the Karmala to join vessels on Seminary in Canton.,
not very sorry), and there will be this station. They will all dis- Rev. Dr. Arthur L. Becker and good day's work for a whole embark at Shanghai. his family came BCTOSS
the army of coolles before all the Paific again and landedat Kobe paper and string and banana Dr. Becker recently completed skins and incid-ntal mess and A large number of American. A course at the University of litter which usually follows such missionaries came to the Far Michigan, receiving the degree of festivals is all picked up and the Peak looking its spick and epan East on the Admiral Line steamer Ph. D. and is returning to Seoul to
The 0.8.K. advise consignees self again. The Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America has yesterday morning.
of cargo that the steamships Silver State, which made this port take charge of Union Mission
Sap They are College. He and Mrs. Becker Today is the Sheung
Seattle Maru and Altai Maru sta sent a message to its 150.000 congregations, here, including mort returning from a holiday in bave been stationed in Kores (D able Ten) Festival, so called The Chief Justice of the now in port-Page 5. Protestant denominatione, urging all religious hodies to seize the the States. #bile
Methodist because it is held on the nth Colony, Sir William Rees-Davies, several of many years
·Good value for $50 at Warren's priceless opportunity of the Washington Conference to cultivate them
day of the tenth month (English KC., returned, to Bra coming hera for missionaries. Christian public opinion in favour of disarmament, and demanding & the first time. Shanghai
Hongkong-Page 2. Miss Eva Melby a graduate calendar). As is well known, it yesterday from a boliday at The C.8.P. inserts a notice to- far-reaching reduction in naval and military armaments.
the principal port of disembarks- of the University of Wisconsin celebrates the saniversary of the Home. Lady Rees-Davies day asht motor car and cycle tion. Among these who landed and former dean of women, there overthrow of the monarchy and accompanied him. Sir and Lady number plates-Page 4
The Rees-Davies arrived here on the "The Symbol of Sacrifice Saunders, of Battle Creek, Mich to Foochow to join the faculty of town is gaily decorated Jo-day Peninsular and Oriental, steamer will be screened by the World
Hoogkong was Mr. Joel R. landed at Shanghai and is going the capture of Wacboog. who was accompanied by Mrs. the Anglo-Chinese College, and there will be much feasting, Karmala, having joined the vessel Theatre to-day at a 4.30 p.m. Saunders and Miss Saunders, institution fostered by the cracker-firing and the usual cele at Colombo from the large Matinee—Pago 4. They have been on an extended Methodist mission organization. brationsindulgedio by the Chinese Australian steamer Narkonda
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HOUR'S UNPACED CYCLING RECORD.
Frenchman Takes Title from Britisher.
Paris. October 9.
At Dijon, Louis Dutriou, the champion cyclist, broke the on-lasting paced hour record of 24 miles, 1152 yds, established by F. H. Grubb at Herne Hill on July 10. 1910, by covering over 27 miles.
AMERICAN MARRIES GREEK PRINCESS.
Fazie, October 9, The marriage of Mr. Leeds and the Princess Xenis of Greece has been celebrated bere. The Queen-Dowager of Greece was present.
Mr. Leeds is the son of Princess Christopher of Greece, who was previously Mrs. Leeds, her first basband being an American millionaire. Princess Xenia in seventeen.]
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GERMANY RETWEES SCIENCE INSTRUMENTS."
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EMPLOYED ON HOUSING BCH EMES.
Komur & Komor will close their store at the end, of Norem- bez. Yes, there'll be a sale of Curice-Page 4 :
vacation 'ja' the United States
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balf years, during which time
JAPANESE IN SIBERIA, Mr. Saunders visited the larger institutions of religion and It is reported that the Chines
The Japanese Government will education to gather new ideas for Government intends to place the
start the withdrawal of troops big work in China. During his astronomical instruments vastor-
from Biberia on November 11, so- visit to the States Mr. Saunders ed by Germany on exhibition for
cording to an Osaka Mainichi | aleo supervised the publishing of 10 days, under the control of the reply by Bir A. Mond, there were message, The garrisons will be bis books. "The Methods That Ministry of Education The on August 1, 148,026 men employ-assembled in Vladivostok from on Win in the Foreign Field greater part of this historicaled on housing schames of local Spakaye, Sikotos and Nikolsk "Chinese ss They Are," "The collection has reached Foking authorities and public utility so and sent to Japan from there. It Cross and the Beconstruction of and the remainder is on the way cities in England and Wales. Of is expected that the evacuation the World,' published ly back.
these 68,407 were unskilled men.will be completed by nezt Mareb. p.m.
According to a Parliamentary
To-Day's Exchange,
The closing rate of the dollar
demand to-day was 2. 105%d.
Lighting-Up Time. Lighting-up time to-day, 602