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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
TERRORISM NEAR SWATOW.
(Continued from Page, 1.) templos have been widely burnt down, also.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1928.
HOME BY ELECTION
RESULT...
TANKERS NEAR LONDON.
FAVERSHAM RETAINED BY LIVERPOOL'S DANGER CITED
CONSERVATIVES.
FOUR CANDIDATES.
London, Jan. 20.
AT INQUIRY,'
The Communist Organfaation, The Communist organisation is said to consist of a close corpora- tion of not much more than a hundred people, and recognition ng a full Communist in dificult to secure. This secret'organisation,; with Phang Phai at its head, con-sham Division of Kent, caused by as far as Purffect, instead of trols the activities of the party the death of Lieut-Col. Sir Gran-Thames Haven, which is 16 miles
further east.. in the district. Outside the partyville Wheeler (Conservative) re- are a large number who are olthor qualifying for membership, or are sulted as follows: intimidated ta net 'na Its agents. Intimidation is said to account for the large proportion of those
Mr. David Owen, General Man- ayer of the Port of London! Authority, gave, evidence at the Ministry of Transport Inquiry into the proposal to allow petrol-
The by-election in the Faver-laden ships to navigate the Thames
Mr. Maitland (Con.)
12,007
Maj. Leigh Aman (Lab.). 11,818 Mr. Freeman Dunn (Lib.) 5,813
He did not think there was much risk involved in extending to the new limit proposed.
Mr. G. P. Langton, K. C. (for the
who obey the orders of the party. Mr. Hallwood (Ind. Con.).... 1,090 Shell-Mex Group, who opposed the Some ten miles beyond. Kong- The result of the last election Proposal)-So far as Liverpool is pheng they have their camp and was: Sir Granville Wheeler (Con-concerned, they are not having a hospital headquarters, and an-servativo), 14,432; Rev. Sy very happy Christmas? We know other ten miles into the hills le Morgan (Labour), 9,180; Mr. A. J. what has happened there. their fastness. To this there is Solomon (Liberal), (7,182,--British only one rond, and that a difficult Wireless. hilly approach, well-guarded, In the event of any action being! | taken against them by the mill- tary it to this place they would retire until the storm had swept past, unless indeed they were
ejected even from there.
Miss Lloyd George Invited..
London, Jan. 20.
You are mat looking forward with pleasure to a similar occurrence anywhere in the Port of London ?- Certainly not.
If a vessel as far up as Purfleet daughter of the Liberal leader, is flood. tide, a very large quantity of Miss Megan Lloyd George, the were to come into collision on the being approached by the Liberals oll might be released and come up Swatow, Jan. 28. of Anglesey to become the Liberal to the dock?-Yea. Since writing yesterday of the candidate for the county, on the And that would cause grave
retirement, after the nature of the anti-Christian cam-Parliament, of Sir Robert Thomas, to the Port of London Authority? present anxiety, not only to the public, but paign of the Hal-Luk Fung Com munists, a letter has come to hand the Liberal member. At the lastYes. saying the Communists intend to election, the sitting member had a 827 against the issue a proclamation giving all majority of Christians A brief time-limit Labour candidate. within which to renounce their faith, on pain of death. There is yet no confirmation of this.
H.M.S. Magnolia is in port and yesterday 4 Japanese destroyers eame in,..
Invented Stories.
The Hongkong Telegraph for last Thursday, Friday and Satur-
·BRITISH BANKER'S
OPTIMISTIC.
(Continued from Page 1.).
Mr. Herbert Barringer, member of a firm of consulting engineers, said he had designed and superin tended the construction of 93 oil tankers. In a large tanker from 800 to 900 tons of petrol were carried in one compartment. There had been cases of fire on board a tanker, which it had been impos. Bible to put out.
Sir Leslie Scolt (for the London County Council, who also opposed
day came to hand last night, The growing role in the economic life the scheme)-In the Gravesend Swalow news from Chinese of the country but it was an illu-Reach that would not be a sources, reproduced from a version to suppose that their pros-thing-No, it would not. nacular paper and which the perity counter-balanced the do-
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Telegraph suggested should be
Mr. Barringer expressed the taken with reserve, is entirely in pression of the old Industries.
opinion that "tankers don't leak, accurate. The invention of such Full attainment of prosperity much through the shell." atories is to be deplored since was, he concluded, impossible un- there is, in absence of reliable less the coal, iron, steel, ship-| Mr. Analogoff (London and newa, some ground for apprehen-building, cotton and wool flus-Thames Haven Oll Wharves, tries were also enjoying full Limited)-You have not been in- formed about the formidable list
The Premier Hotel in Kowloon with all modern conveni- ences. High Class Cusine and Table Appointments. Wonderful view of the Harbour and Peak, and five minutes from the Ferry,
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Public Capital Investments.
The report of the capture of activity-Reuter. Swatow by the forces of Chang Fat-kwal needs now no denial; that, in any case, was very vague. More Inexplicable in the circum- stantial report of a fight on the railway between a regiment of the 13th Army and a band of Com
London, Jan. 26. Presiding at the annual meeting
of leaky tankers which put into the Thames.
of the National Provincial Bank, HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?. Sir Harry Goschen, the Chairman, said the public in 1927 subscribed
£217,000,000 as frean expavai sur industrial purposes, "which is an indicatlon of the country's to-day's questions:- savings."
The following are the repliéo-ve-
munists advancing on Swatow.
No-one whom I have met has so much as heard of it, and the casual ties and executions stated to have
1. Inhabitanta of Central Australia, sald Tel. Address "PALACE."
to date from the Btane Are and now rapidly Tel Kowloon No. 8
Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station.occurred would have created a
Sir Harry Goachen thought that, dinding. 2. Teiturnity. 3. At Chorley,
Lanrs, with the object of locating the bod Entirely, under English Management. Electric Light and Fans throughout. great sensation if the report had
Private Bath, Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms, been true, The nearest approach despite banking amalgamation, afgirl who had been drosened. 4. Ilaroid very Room with
of the proprietress. in the realm of reality to this the rivalry between banks in Goodwin has fust been so elected in acorde Darivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision
Fasex, B, tight of presentation in a rectory Terma moderate. Special terms to familier on application to:
Mrs. J. IL OXBERRY, Proprietress. yarn is this:--Some Communista Britain was never more acute and aro with an ancient custom at Berden. in or vicarage. It is heritable and may be ankl attacked in the night the goods American and
ur bequeathed. 6. Switzerland, from Helvetil, wagons at the railway station, and bankers were competing with the the ancient people who inhabited a western It was evident portion. 7., £18,000,000 on the basis of 100, set them on fire. The darm was British market. given, and the military guard at that the Americans are doing their 600.000 being smoked daily in England. 8. rane. The sum involved a £2,200,000,000. the station drove off the attackers, utmost to divert to the United Lou and O'Fallon rallway appeal and took four prisoners, while the States the profitable business. Twenty feet 10. Three, 11. 8, 10, 1 Fire Brigade dealt with the fire which was previously confined to 1920 and 28. 81. In 1908. 12. King Edward
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SPEED IN THE AIR.
GALE IN TENNESSEE.
1.
BRITISH ATTEMPT ON RECORD.
London, Jan. 26.
GUSTS BLOW DOWN ROWS
'OF HOUSES.
New York, Jan. 26. It is considered probable that A gale raging during the past Flight Lieutenant Linkhead, who two days has caused loss of life flew the Napier in the Schneider and damage to property in Ten- race but did not finish the course,nessee, where seventy-miles-an will be selected to fly the Super-hour gasts have demolished whole marine Napier, which won the rows of wooden houses along the trophy when the attempt is made benches. in March to break the speed record.
British Wireless.
New All Metal Plane.
London, Jan. 26.
Part publication is permitted re-
garding the details of the new all-
Two schooners bave gane aahore on the New England coast. -Reuter's American Scrvice.
metal monoplane which is the WELL KNOWN PERSONALITY
largest ever built in this country
and is known да "Lardmöro" Rolls Royce Inflexible, It is of
VISITING LONDON.
London, Jan, 20,
excoptionally large span and is M. Adolphe Max, the Burgo- fitted with three Rolls Royca master of Brussels, a well-known Condor engines, one in the nose war personality, arrives in Lon and one in each wing-Reuter don to-day on an official visit to Wireless
the Lord Mayor.-British Wireless.
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