THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
NINETEEN SHANGHAI
ROYALTY WEDS.
"REDS."
MOVEMENT FOR THEIR REPRIEVE,
LABOUR MANIFESTOES,
It is believed that due to an in- creasing feeling evidenced by deveral local Jabour organizationa and a number of private indivi duals, prominent In local Chinese affairs, enys the Shanghai Times, the remaining nineteen of the twenty men who were arrested and sentenced to be shot for being im plicated in the recent attack on a Chinese police station near the West Gate will be dealt with more leniently.
One prominent local Chinese has written Marshal Sud Chuan- fang, who ordered that the men be executed, begging leniency on the ground that they were mostly students and ignorant labourers that allowed themselves to be mis- led by the Kuomintang, agitators, according to the Chinese press... The Amalgamated Association of Public Bodies wrote a letter to Col Yen Taung-yang, Commander of the Woosung-Shanghai Con-- stabulary, declaring that all the foreigners in. Shanghai watching with great interest the uncivilized procedure of the police in dealing with political prisoners." It also informed him that in Europe and Japan political prison- era are not executed but are given, long terms of imprisonment and asked that a similar punishment be meted out to the remaining nineteen offenders.
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A manifesto was issued by the Shanghai Labour Delegates Asso- ciation appealing to people in all walks of life to render aid in an endeavour to secure lepiency for the men. The manifesto declared, that the prisoners were labourers who were only arrested on gus- picion and are "now being treat ed in an improper way."
DEATH SENTENCES.
PASSED ON GERMAN TRAIN WRECKERS.
Berlin, Nov. 4. A message from Hildesheim says that the two youtha, named Otto Schlesinger and Willy Weber, who confessed their responsibility for the German railway smash at Lehrte on August 19th have been sentenced to death, by the Court. A third man, named Walter Weber, for being an accessory before the crime has been sentenced to two year's imprisonment,
Above are Crown Prince Leopold of Belgium and Prin- cess Astrid of Sweden, whose marriage is reported to-day.
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THE PIRATE EVIL.
CANTON TO TAKE ACTION.
Recently local bandits have been active on the various inland water- ways, and have given great trou-) ble to travellers. As the result, Director. Lin Chen-hsiung, and the Party Representative Hau Tien-sen of the. Naval Department in Canton have paid attention to this situation, and have proposed to re- store the patrol service in separate divisions on the various rivers for suppressing the activities of the bandita ANAL
As many gunboats of the naval fleet ware in poor condition, the restoration of the patrol service had to be postponed, and with the recent completion of the repairs it was accordingly decided to resume the regular service on the East and Weat, Rivers on the 30th October,
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RUBBER EXPORTS.
NEW SCHEME APPROVED.
Rugby, Nov. 4,
The Colonial Secretary has up- Governments in Ceylon and Malaya proved of steps being taken by the to introduce necesary measures to impose a limit of time on the validi- at the Queen's Theatre. It is a ty of the rubber export rights First National picture, starring which may be issued in those ter- Constance Talmadge, who is seen ritories on and after February 1st, in what can truthfully be said to 1927. be one of her finest triumphs.
The story deala with a novelist rights existing before
The intention is that while such who got at cross purposes with his will continue as heretofore to be that date wife. When the latter leaves him valid for the export of rubber at he seeks new pleasures in night any time after issue, coupons in life and becomes fascinated with Ceylon and export credits or his wife's twin sister, a dancing licences in Malaya which may be star. By a clever handling of the issued on and after February 1st. It will be remembered that the plot, the wife eventually takes the next shall cease to be valid on the two men were arrested in a casual place of her sister, and we have expiration of a period of three ward about a fortnight after the amazing and amusing catastrophe. They confessed that developing when the hubby falls pect of which they are issued, name situations months following the period in res- they were unemployed and had passionately in love with her, zotly they will be valid for a total been penniless for months and realising that she is his wife. period of four months in Ceylon decided to derail the train and rob They even elope together and stay and of six months in Malaya. It is the passengers and mail. They at the hotel where hubby and wife not at present intended to limit in loosened the rails and hid in the had spent their honeymoon. bushes." but were so horrified at can well be imagined what com-issued to amail estate owners in It this way the validity of coupons the resultant spectacle that they plications arise from such a situa- Malaya, in view of comparative fled without waiting to rob. The tion, and all these are very effec- unimportance of the export rights deed preyed on the mind of Weber, tively brought out as who confessed to his brother at proceeds.
the story this carried over-British Wire- Constance Talmadge less. his father's grave, after which the plays the dual role of the wife and Police got on the trail-Reuter.
her sister, and is really great in all that she does. She has splen- did support from the reat of the small cast, all of whom act with much ability.
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ANOTHER SHARP RISE.
London, Nov. 4. To avoid any possible misunder-publié as being ong which should 28 points since October 1at had French francs, which have risen another sharp appreciation to-day there is a Gaumont graphie; some starling-Reuter, '
Besides this main attraction and closed at 144% to the pdund advertising or the Hurpose for prezehers have done marvellously really excellent pictures of the In- terport golf at Shanghai and s comedy which is far above the or- dinary run of such pictures. Or dinary prices are charged for this bumper programme.
standing it is as well to emphasise on no account be missed. that the A. DC. in their season opening on Saturday, November 18th, are breaking away from the usual custom of staging one play only, and are putting on four short plays every night.
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The first is a curtain-raiser, a Carce that lasts about ten minutes, and is followed by one of John Galsworthy's dramas. After this is the interval, and the first play in the second part is a melodrama Holy Communion. at St. John's On Armistice Day, there will be laeting about half an hour fol- Cathedral and the Peak Church at lowed by one of A, A. Milne's de- 7.45 a.m., whilst from 9.46 to lightful comedies.
These four plays, which are service at the Cathedral. At this 10.80 a.m. there will be a special presented every night, make a very service the Bishop of Victoria will: varied bill of fare. By starting preach and there will be a collec at 9.30 p.m. sharp the final cur tion for St. Dunstan's Home. tain will fall at 11.30 which will enable everyone to get home, in comfort without breakneck rushes, to catch laat trams, ferries, etc.
There arrived from Singapore this morning 180 Indian recruits for the Hongkong Police Force. A great number of these men, it is understood will be posted for guard duty aboard coasters.
On Wednesday afternoon police searchers found in the steerage quarters of the .s. President Grant, twenty-three rounds of ammunition, which, on the applica- tion of Sergeant Goodwin, were ordered to be confiscated by Mr.s J. H, B. Nihil, at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning.
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