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· PREMIER EXPLAINS MATTERS.
DETERMINED TO PROBE THE ZINOVIEFF
ANOTHER
LETTER.
GUNPOWDER
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PLOT"?
CABLE FOULED.
CAPT. TURNBULL FINED.
Capt. W. S. Turnbull, master of the Douglas Steamship Co. veBBO), Hai Foong, appeared before Lieut.. Comdr. G. F. Hole, R. N., in the Marine Court, charged with anchoring his ship in a pro- London, October 27.
hibited area. Evidence was given Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, speaking at Cardiff, said the election by Mr. A. Stevens, of the Eastern had started with the maro's most of the Workers' Weekly case and Extension Telegraph Co. and Mr.
Red was likely to finish with the mare's nest of a great Russian
W. R. Hillyor, of the Harbour plot-(laughter). The assertion that when the Government was Department and the Master. rofusing an enquiry into the Workers' Weekly caso they had infor-
According to the ovidonco, a mation of the ramifications of communist activity in Britain, far report WAB received at the more serious than either the House of Commons or the country was telograph office to the effect service on tho cabile allowed to know, was a malicious untruth. The facts were that the that
and Hongkong betwoon Government had boon defeated on October 8th, whilst this "Red" plot lotter had not found its way to the Foreign Office until October Kowloon had hoon impaired. Thoj 10th. It had not been put into the department until October 14th. Harbour Department was also "It was sent to me at Manchester on October 15th. I received it notified and Mr. Hillyer wont, on the 16th. I minuted that the greatest care must be taken in dis-aboard the Hai Foong where ho covoring whether it was authentic, and if so it must be published im-learned that the ship on dooking modiately.
had picked up the cablo on her?
23rd.
Measurements were taken
and compared and it was decided
OCTOBER
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CHILD'S TERRIBLE DEATH.
Lives Through The Fire.
A little girl aged four met a torrible dosth in a fire which, broke out, at a quarter to "one this morning at 77, Wollington :Street. She was lying saloop on
the first foor when the alarm
she Biyon and wae
brought was not
out until the fire had been practically ox- tinguished, having boon subjected to the terrifio host for wall over an hour, and severaly burnt by the flames. The father had been detained by the police for en- quiries and it was not until the fire cacapes had been ordered to In the meantime, while other investigations were proceeding anchor.
return to their station that the to discover the authenticity of this document, a draft lotter to
Fire Brigade received a messago Rakovsky, should be prepared so that whon, and if, the authenticity
There should be a big audience informing them that a child was be established, no time should be lost in protesting to the Soviet that the ship had anchored in a
torritory. Capt. at the City Hall on Friday in the building. The escapes were Government. My minute was received in department on the 17th prohibited and a draft was sent me on the 21st. at Aberavon for observations. I Purnbull said that he had been afternoon, when Miss Dallas at oncebrought back to the scene Hongkong and Faser, noted English collist, is and Supt. H. T Brooks entered the was absent in my son's constituency, and did not receive it until the coming into
room and found the child still docking at the same wharf for giving a recital.
Miss Fraser is offering some alive, feebly holding up its arms. "I altered the draft on the 24th, and sent it back in its altered the past ten years and that was
included in form, expecting it to be returned to me with proofs of the authenticity, the first time that he had choice examples of cello com-She was hurried to the Govern
the mont Civil Hospital but it was but it was published that night." (Cries of. "Shamol") "I make no any difficulty.
He said that positions, complaints, The Foreign Office and everyone of my colleagues he had taken the same course as programme being an "Elogie" by impossible to do anything for her
aBouroo" and she died at 7.0 a.m. - know that I won't tolerate this propaganda." (Cheers).
he formerly used, i.c., N. 75. W, Mr. Harry Oro,
(usaccompanied by Bach, and a The fire alarm was given from "On account of my known determination to stand firmly to the and that he was very close to the Gavotte by Popper, Two short the Lyndhurst Terrace signal and agreement and treaty as though they were holy writ, when my wharf when bo dropped his signature was attached they sesumed that they were carrying out anchor to hold the bow of the pieces by Purcoll Warron, when the Brigade arrived on the my wishes in taking immediate stops to publish the whole affair. bast while lines wore being ran modern composer for the cello, soene they found the place should mako tho concert blazing from top to bottom, They honestly believed the document to be authentic and acted on ashore.
interesting, in with flames leaping yards into that belief. If they acted precipitatoly, what is the accusation
He said that as soon as the additionally against us? Why don't the newspapers say we were in too great ship was socure to the wharf, be addition to the other items in the air, curling out from every fascinating programme. Misa window and over the top of the haste? If the Foreign Office had been in either Tory or Liberal began hauling in his anchor and Fraser demonstrated her com building. The premises were of hands that latter would have taken vooks to get through the various that when he raised it above the mand over her instrument at the the usual Chinose four-storey sieves. The rapidity of action was a businorslike way of handling water he found that the telegraph- the Gavernment's determination to stand no nonsense, and is a telephone cable was on it. Models Navy League Concert last week. type and, as was only to be ex- peated, the stairs had already conspicuous example of the new way of conducting foreign affairs.
fallon in, preventing all means of SURROUNDED BY "SCOUNDRELNESS."
ogross or accoss, Two hydrants and a motor pump were got to; work on the conflagration, two the hoses being played from TABLES hnse opposite and the other.
from the street. The fire had
"If the Zinovieff letter is a forgery, it shows the amount of scoundrelnoss with which we are surrounded. My experience has If it is goquine, made it impossible for me not to be suspicious. depond upon it that no long as there is. Labour Governnient and I am responsible for it, then it will handio with firmness and dotor mination every attempt by an outside Power to intorfere in our
internal affairs."
were introduced into the court to show, the exact position of tho ship and charts wi re consulted as: to the exact course taken.
Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton, soli- citor for the defence, questioned Mr. Stevens
as
to
FOOTBALL.
whether LOCAL LEAGUE or not it was possible for the
•
cable to shift from its original | Appended will be found the obtained a strong hold before Mr. MacDonald continued to describe sa lies the "wonderful position due to the movement of Hongkong Football League tables the Brigado were in a position to storice of the newspapers as regards the progress of the document tiles, etc. Mr. Stevens said that to date. It will be noted that the combat it and it was some time through the Post Office to the Foreign Office. He said it was an he had had considerable
Surreye are in a strong position before they confined its area to eleventh-hour attempt to entangle the Government and get election porionee laying cables and that in each division, and that although the rear of the premises, where it night over with a cloud of suspicion hanging over the country. he had never knows one to shift the season is hut a few weeks old, had already burnt through from "I am the most inne veut man of the lot of you. I was out of The Magistrate, after careful ovary club except South China ground floor to roof. The "stop" I am going to probe this thing to the roots. It will be my first perusal of the charts and check-"B" (Div. L.) has credited itself was sont through about two job, when I return to London, to discover how this thing originated ing up the distances and course with at least one point.
given by the Master of the Hai
London and had to get information, which is still coming in, bovauso
and who is behind it, and you will get the whole story."
Foong, decided that tho anchor
Mr. MacDonald said he wanted to know how a certain London was dropped in a prohibited sres newspaper, which was priding itself on having forced the Govern and assessed a nominal fine of $ mont's hands, came to have a copy of the letter, or how the Consor- or five days. The defence asked R. A. vative headquarters, which for days had been talking of springing for a stay of axecution for seven Surreys amine under the Government's feet, became possessed of the letter days to consider taking
the Club
9. C. "A
"So far as I know, the letter may have originated anywhere.case higher. This was granted. Polico How can I, a simple and honest-minded person, avoid the suspicion that the whole thing is a political plot, another "gunpowder plot" (Laughter). The mattor is nowiso finished, and until it is finished the best thing is to leave it with the Government." (Cheers),-Reuter. LIBERAL CRITICISM.
London, October 27.
Mr. Lloyd George, in a speech at Camberwell in support of Mr. MacNamara, said that the Moscow mystory had cast a very einister' light on the Government's refusal to hold an inquiry into the Campbell case. The Foreign Office, of which Mr. MacDonald was the hoad, had said the Zinoviaff document was genuine, but all Mr. MacDonald's Ministers said it was a forgory. He did not know why they said that before they had made enquirice, It looked to him as though the document had been withheld from the Cabinet Ministers.
OLD RESIDENTS'
DEATH.
WELL-KNOWN
PORTUGUESE.
WAR
A
Kowloon Tamar S. C. "B"
Surreys S. C."A"
C. do R. Drums ... Kowloon
DIVISION 1, .
Goals.
o'clock, but the Brigade wore obliged to remain on the scene: for an hour or two afterwards. The fire is believed to have originated P. W. D. F. A. in the ground floor kitchen, the
6 4 0 2 12 11 8 walls of which showed that it' 3300 9 1 Gwas there that the heat was con- 320 1.12 4 4 contrated. The cause is unknown. The occupants of the ground 5122 5 9 21.13 0 3 floor wore San Koo, a silversmith, 210 15 3 2 who had offooted insurance to 4013 1 6 the oxtont of $1,000 with tho 0 Northern Insurance Company,
3 0 0 3 2 15 DIVISION 10
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We regret to record the death,J. "A": at his residence, 7, Ashley Road,
Club Kowloon, this morning, of Mrs. C."g" Antonio Paulo Guterros, at the Sacred H. He would have accepted the Soviet denial but for the fact that advanced age of 76.
University when he was Premior the Soviet donlod a similar transaction whon
Mr. Guterres was a well-known C. de R. "B" ho had positive proof thereof, namely Kamoneff had donied he was figuro in the Colony having boon
S. 3. "B" residont hord for the propagating a revolution in England at the moment when Mr. Lloyd
Ho 60 years. George had his tologram to Moscow stating that he had disposed of past
many YORTS the Russian jewels and was giving the Daily Herald soventy-five thou-shipmaster for sand pounds storling. Therefore he could not accept Moscow's denial but later socurad an appointment'
the as he would have accepted the denial of any other country-Benter.in Government Shipping
London, October 27,
Office (the Harbour Office) and With reference to statements that the Zinovioff letter was known remained in the service of the to Mr. MacDonald and Mr. Henderson nearly three wooks prior to Government for some thirty publication, Mr. Henderson to-day declaros that no such document years. Ho had boon in ratiro- was recolved at the Home Office or Scotland Yard, or by Mr. Hoa- ment for some time past, derson personally, from any quarter. His first information of the The funeral takes place this existence of the document was in the columns of a newspaper on afternoon; the cortege will pass October 25th. Reuter.
the monument at 5 p.m.
London, October 27,
With reference to Mr. MacDonald's speech at Cardiff, tho Can- servativo headquarters have promptly issued a statement that they only learned of the existonce of the Zinovioff letter when the Foreign Office published it.-Reuter.
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PIRATES AS COOKS.
FURTHER DETAILS or WEST RIVER OUTRAGE. Later reports show that six
TAXI DRIVER FINED.
RECKLESS DRIVING. IN KOWLOON.
A Kowloon taxi-cab driver was fined $30 by Mr. E. W. Hamiltonį at the Kowloon Magistraay this morning for driving his car rok. losely in Nathan Road at 6.15 p.m. on the 13th instant,
Evidenco was given by Sergeant Hallam, why státod that he was driving motor oar along Nathan Road towards the forty, kbaut 25 yards behind a motor bus. When noaring Jordan Road, defendant's car, without any warning, sud- donly turned into Jordan Road in front of witness' car. Witness had to apply both brakes and swervo to the right to avoid a collision.
His Worship, in imposing the fine etated above, said that the traffic in Kowloon was bad enough without defendant making it say
worse.
SETTLEMENT DAY.
ANOTHER LOCAL RECORD.
To-day is Sattleinent Day, and in oonesquence there has been practically no business dono in Ice House Street, all brokers being busy in settling up past transactions.
During the past three months a vary large volume of forward business was put through for the October Bettlement in fact the aggregate of the transaction is, easily the highest, ovor, known bore. Many thousands of shares of differing stooks are to-day | bolag "aquared off," and, although there are some large commit. monta, It is confidently expected that the day will pass off without any serious default.
REPULSE BAY HOTEL.
DETAILS OF NEW WING.
So urgent has the need for ad- ditional accommodation at the Repulse Bay Hotel become that the Hongkong and Shanghai Hotola, Ltd., have begun the construction of another wing containing 60 rooms. When the addition has been completed it will bring the total number of rooms up to nearly 100,
The new addition will be on the site just north and west of the present building and on a terraco higher. The ground floor of the new building will be on a level structure and will be reached by building will be approximately. covered passagoway, The new 280 feet long and will have two
and Chun Wo-chan, a quilt and Chinese cooke, hired by the with the first floor of the present
The last
stories.
3300 5 6 topoe manufacturer. 3300 10 3 6 named had a large stock of owners of the 8.8. Wai Hoi while 3 20 1 18 2 4 cotton bales on the ground floor the ship was in Hongkong, were 32 0:1 9 4 4 and those naturally contributed the pirates who operated on the to the extent of the vessel, near First Cliff, on the 3201 6 4 largely
West River, early on Saturday
Deviating from the type of 4 2 0/2 5 5. 4 blaze.. Bir Robert Ho Tung is
morning. Contrary to the first 3201 3 6 the owner of the building.
reports, one guard was murdered architecture used in the present representative 3102 3 2 A Telegraph
a flat roof which will be on the 3012 410 was this morning informed that and another seriously wounded building, the new wing will have 3012 2 6 the house was in such a preby the pirates.
The piracy took place about 4.30 same level with the peak of the The roof on the adjoining building. 1 carious position that it would 1 have been sufoidal to attempt to a.m. on Saturday morning.
look for a person or persons if six cooks taking possession of the The outside will be finished in the Brigade had no knowledge ship, ordered the pilot to take rough cast and tinted to corres-
Staunoh Island pond with the present building.
According to the specifications, of the prosence of anyone in the her
three more building. Had they known that lighthouso. Here
40 19 3 16
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SHIPPING AGREEMENT.
BETWEEN DUTCH AND GERMAN COMPANIES.
up to
the unfortunato child was inside pirates hoarded the vessel, one the interior will be much the same building. Minor improvement, they would have gone in search of them being a qualified pilot as the interior of the, presont of her, and as a matter of fact The pirate pilot took immediate the need for which has presented when the child was rescued, she charge of the wheel. was found, about six fået insido
The as. Wai Hoi was then itself since the completion of the building. All of the front rooms the window, exactly where her taken up a small creek (so small notel, will be incorporated in the father had said. It was likelolas not to be charted) at Kong In the new structure; that is, the
cargo WAS Amsterdam, Oct. 27.
rooms facing Repulse Bay, will that the child's life would have Island. All tho
and elevon
have private bathe, while the With reference to the recent been saved had the Brigade discharged thoro
nombor of the orow taken
rooms on the rear of the bullding friction botwoan Dutch and known earlier of her presnace.
prisoner to be held for ransom and across the main corridor will Gorman navigation companies
DEMANDS.ngaged in the South American NEW TERRITORIES FIRE. Tho pirates then sent the ship all adjoin baths,
RETURN OF COLONIES SUGGESTED.
near
Excavation for the new build- Owing to the fact that the fire away in charge of her own pilot. trado, with regard to mutuali
The Norwegian toamer Duxing has begun and every effort utilisation of harbours, the appliances could not be taken so
that
anfar in time to cope with the out was fired upon by pirates on will be made to liurry the work Handelsblad learns
through, making the additional arrangement has been reached break, a fire occurring in Sho-October 25th, and 20th,
the. Now Kong Moon, according to our accommodations available at the whereby the German lines under-ungshui Village in Berlin, Oct. 27. take to Ilmit themselves to Territories in the small hours of informant. She was hot boarded, earliest possible moment? Addressing the Centre Party: eightoan trips annually, from Bunday morning caused the total however. Herr Marx demanded that Brazil to, Rotterdam, ind. the destruction of a house, and Gormany should be freed from Dutob lines engage to make a damage amounting to $225, An Two hundred American masinos landed this afternoon. A military supervision, that Gor-like number of journeys between old woman, who was the sole PLENTY OF MONEY
blok inmate of the hut, narrowly Britlab, French and an Italian gunboat, and two Japanese de many's solonies be restored, and Brazil and Hamburg,
thus enable her to obtain raw This agreement, which will losoaped death when she got out stroyers, are in the river at present.
New York, Oct. 27. There has been an excellent response to the local authorities' materials in exchange for manu-operate until December 31st, of a flaming bed and ran outside, He described 1925, 18 Important, because the As it was, the sustained serious supeal for Volunteers. Many trains with troops from Shanhaikwan factured goods.
oog din / Witing a few miles from Tientsin towards Peking Germany's responsibility for the German companies also become burns, and was removedto the Hos- The Issue of thirty million $20-malus la the native olty. He sent omiaunties to war Moda fairy tale," and ex-members of the homeward Brasi pital on the arrival of the Police: dollars of Swedish Government The fire is attributed to a spark, Bonds was over-subscribed short- aistusele morning expressing the hope that he would be pressed Germany's willingness to conference, in which British MARKA QUfow days. The view in Uzpratoed that, this, co-operate in disarmament. French and Dutch companies are getting amongst a pile of hay ly after the lists opened..
represented.--Reuter
estored in a corner of the hut. Reuterss A
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