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ZINOVIEFF LETTER CAR FALLS INTO
DISCLOSURES.
RAMSAY MACDONALD'S
VINDICATION.
DAILY MAIL'S BIG INFLUENCE IN PUBLICATION.
lowe, the former editor of the
HARBOUR.
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SWABUE NEW LITTLE WAR IN KING'S COLLEGE COMMUNISTS.
-AN MINEXT MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1928. 一日四十艇
TERRIFIC SEAS IN WAR ON
HARBOUR,
FOUR DROWNED IN EXCITING SCENES OFF HOLT'S.
PÂNG PAI FEATHERING HIS NEST.
PULLS INDIAN CONSTABLE IN AS WELL.
|SEQUEL TO CURIOSITY.
Tensed.
notorious Zlnovicf -Letter, fran two different sources on October 23rd, 1924, but in which he em-i The slight incline of the rond phatically exonerates Mr. 3. D. towards the water's edge at this Gregory, a statement has been is-point, caused the car to back
MacDumabl
constable, according to a police te-j
NEW BRITISH TREATY REJECTED.
SARWAT PASHA AND CABINET HAVE RESIGNED.
OVER 20 RESCUED.
Four lives were lost when, in LARGE SUMS SENT BY THIRD rough weather prevailing
on
Saturday afternoon, a big wave swept over the bows of a
coal
board.
INTERNATIONALE.
IRAK.
TRIBES ON THE WARPATH AND THREATENING.
TROOPS FROM, INDIA.
troops to Kowelt from India.
OPENED.
THIS AFTERNOON'S BIG CEREMONY.
H. E. THE GOVERNOR UNLOCKS SUPER-BUILDING.
Observing a motor-car without
Basra, Mar. 4. an attendant atanding In Con-
The town of, Koweit is in à Įstate of tension owing to reports naught Road, to the enat of the
|from the interior, where a number Canton Steamboat Wharf, last.
of tribes are, it is clear, on the TELEPHONE MESSAGE. night, an Indian constable, named BITTER OPPOSITION, lighter and carried away all on NAVAL PARTY LANDED warpath, that a big offensive is FOR 900 STUDENTS.
Kusha Mahomed, approached the
being prepared" with Koweit as London, Mar. 4.
the main objective. Cairo, Mar. 4.
Of 29 persons: carried into the Whatever the extent of the It is stated that the British.au-tance in the development of educa An event of considerable impor In consequence of a letter in car, and peered within. Curiosity this morning's Observer, in the prompted
Sarwat Pasha, the Egyptian 92, four were drowned, while the Sovietisation of Hoifung,and Luk-thorities have ordered the imme- tion in the Colony took place this him to Louich the course of which Sir Thomas Mar-machine, and the first thing he understood that before he tender-curred off Holt's Wharf and the xestion has recently gained cur-
Premier, has resigned though it is remainder were rescued by pass-
ing launches. The accident oc-fung district, an interesting sug-diate despatch of a battalion of afternoon, when His Excellency Daily Mail, explains that the at his hand on was the handed his resignation, he informed calamity, and the subsequent Tes-rency. It is said that Pang Pai, conundruni. It is said on the one monial opening of King's College. The attitude of lbasaud in a KC.M.G.) performed the cero- the Governor (Sir Cecil Clementi, Daily Mail received a copy of the brake, which he accidentally re-Lord Lloyd, the British High Cornu work were witnessed as n the supposed Chief of the "Soviet hand that he has sanctioned the The function was attended by a thrilling Incident by spectators on missioner, that the Government the waterfront and ion in passing Government in the Hoi-Luk Fung tribal attacks owing to the anger large gathering of those interest-
roused by the recent devastation had rejected the terms of, the new Star Ferry launch.
district during his "regime" has caused by the R.A.F.
ed in education. in their
The School assembled at 2.30 Treaty with Great Britain.
The lighter left Yaumati in tow accumulated $400,000,
efforts to wipe out. Feisal-ed- by the stem-laung Tung Hing, sued to the Press by Mr. Ramany radually into the Harbour. The The Egyptian Cabinet has re-and at about one o'clock was pass-solzed by the "Reds" and Fang hand, it is thought that he is un-was discoursed by the band of the Much private property has been Dowish's ralders. On the other p.m. In the Great Hall, and musle King's Own Scottish Borderefs Mr. Ramsay Maellonald was the port, attempted to stop the car's signed as the result of the dispute in Holl's Wharf when a remark-Pai has handled a goodly portion, able to withhold the tribesmen.until the arrival of His Excellency,
ably heavy sea swept the lighter, says a report from Chinese Reuter.
on board. and carried away a great part of 30 sources.
The war-like Wahabis recently when the National Anthem was tons of coal as well as everyone In this way alone Pang Pai appeared outside Koweit and coolly played and the Governor's flag
is alleged to havo secured a for-demanded permission to trade, hoisted on the flagstaff.
Aftor His Excellency had un- Rescue work was quickly carried tune of from $200,000 to $300,000, otherwise they would take what out by two launches, the Kwong while from the Third Internation- they wanted at the edge of the locked the main door and declared Sang and the Taisang, which al, at Moscow, Pang is said to have sword. The Sultan deled them to the College open, Sir Cecil enter The do their worst. 11.M.S. Emeralded the building, being followed by reached the victims before the tow-btained about $100,000. ing launch could turn round. money was presumably intended was sent to Kuweit, and that crui- the visitors, Scouts and Ambulance men in uniform standing at åtten- They picked up 25 persons, but the to faster the "Red" outbreak at ser is probably still on the spot.
The recent atrocities resulted in tion along the south verandah, father four including the master's] Hoifung and Luklung.
Pang is alleged to have sent one a decision to use the R.A.F. con-
The official party having taken two young sons, a Bghterman, and of his subordinates to Swatow tingent against the tribesmen, and their scats, His Excellency was He undoubtedly anticipated op-a woman coolic, were drowned, with a big sum of money to be many hundreds of rebel tribesmen presented with a ceremonial key position to certain of the clauses The lighter was waterlogged telegraphically remitted to Macao, have been killed by bomb and ma- and invited to unveil the School of the proposed new Treaty, espec- and was beached at Jardine's the suggestion being that he is chine-gun attacks in the past fort shield and the portrait of the late theially that relating to British mili-Sugar Refinery at East Point
preparing to fit directly Li Chri- night.
Mr. Chan Shek-shan, donor of the lary occupation for a further ten
Chan Shek-shan Scholarship. Half-an-hour after this mishap, ous danger.
sum's expedition threatens serl. years, which is generally regard-
Was
over the Treaty.
Premier at the time of the pub-progress and for that purpose he Beation of the Zinovieff Letters before he could do anything. Sir Ansten Chamberlain and the hing teneiously on to the vehicle, Since the conversations between and he points out that
both "he and, the ear toppled into Sir Thomas Marlowe's letter
Egyptian. Premier in London dur- shows conclusively that there the water.
conspiracy. and that Being a strong swimmer, the ing the summer, Sarwal Pasha has **1.he origin of TheZinoviet constable managed 10 Kel to been scheming to erect sufletent latter was probably a fake, but safety, but the car remained in certainly its use was a fraud." the water from 9.30 p.m. when the support to withstand the expected incident occurred, until shortly attack by the extreme Nationalists. Avalding Publication?
after 2 o'clock this morning, when
The Stumbling Block,' It was raised. In his letter to the Observer, Sir Thomas Marlowe relates The extent of the damage to the that he received a tele car is not yet established. An phone message front * friend Overland Whippet, No. 288, It is that a document."showing almost new, having, been on the relations between the Bol-road for four months only. shevists and the British ·Labour) Jenders," had been, eirculated to
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the Foreign Office, the Home CATHOLIC PRIEST IN Offee, the Admiralty and the War
Office.
The friend stated that Mr. Ram- sny MacDonald knew all about it, bat was lying to avoid publica dion.
MEXICAN PLOT.
MURDER OF PRESIDENT AMONG PLANS.
4
Subsequently, saya Sir Thomas Marlowe, he received lavo copies of)
Mexico City, Mar. 1. the letter separately from other friends, and he relates how, when the arrest of a Catholle priest The Police state that through he learned that the letter was being named Oseric Leyva, they have dis published in the Press, Sir Eyre covered a widespread plot to as Crowe decided to publish it offi-sassinate President Calles and elally.
General Obregon, the only candi- Not a Penny Puid.
date in the field to succeed Presi- ident Calles in the presidential Sir Thomas Marlowe says elertions. he has never 'scen Mr. J. quanilty of literature urging D. Gregory, nor had he had Mexicans to revolt in the name of any connexion with him the League of the Defence of Re- He never paid Mr. Gregory or any-ligious Liberty is alleged to have one else a penny for the Zinovieff be found in the priest's house,
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ed as the main stumbling-block. fanother harbour crified passenger There appears to be every rea- UNABLE TO READ THE
boat proceeding. Ponchat after It was expressed on all sides picking up some washing or son for assuming that Pang Pai that Sarwat had since been play-M. S. Argus, was also to difficulties will try the life of a luxuriously will abandon his adherents and
Thousand of Troops in Field.
ing for time by protracting the A strong gust of wind upset the rich Chinese. conversations through Lord Lloyd, boat, throwing twelve persons on hoping that he would be able to board into the water. They were return to London in an endeavour picked up by the A.P.C. launch Hin to seek further concessions from Hork and taken ashore: The sam- Sir Austen Chamberlain.
pan sank.
"NAAFI" CANTEEN
BURGLED.
SAFE WHICH WAS LEFT BEHIND.
WARNINGS..
FINED $200 FOR CARRYING
·AMMUNITION.
АП
Illiterate Chinese,
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Headmaster's Report,
Then followed the presentation of a report by the Headmaster (Mr. A. Morris), who bald-To- day is an auspicious occasion::int the annuals of educational pro greas in Hongkong, marking as it does the long delayed official open- Swatow, Mar. 3. Troops are getting into position |
who ing of yet another school; a school for the Hal-Luk Fung campaign. arrived in the Colony by the a.. to be known by the proud title Bitter Opposition.
If numbers are of any avail, there President Jefferson from America of King's College, which is to pro- Though the extreme Wafdists
should be enough. Over 4,000 are yesterday, charged before Mr. W. vide for higher education up to were bitterly opposed to Sarwat
Some reported to have assembled at Schofield at the Kowloon Magls-Matriculation Standard. they did not appear inclined to
Ho-pho, one of the half dozen trucy this morning with being in ten years ago, Dr. Lim likened our shoulder the burden of office at
centres from which the advance is possession of 300 rounds of am- University to a lighthouse. If the present juncture, and it was
to be made. Regional commanders munition without a permit pleaded this simile is true, then King's College is one of the many beacon possible that the Treaty would
are being appointed, and the guilty... troops at Ho-pho are nominally'
buoys marking Sergeant Fowler said the am-
the navigable have been rejected without a Min-1
under General Chan Chi-thang, munition was found in the man's channel and approach to that isterial crisis, if the Wafdists had not become convinced that Sarwat had not only had conversation the police by Mr. Grimes, of the Hui-lal and Hai-Luk Fung. To the
According to a report made to who is Regional Commander of coat pockets. There had been no lighthouse, If at Brst our light five districts, Kit-yung, Phou-ieng, special attempt to conceal it. Is feeble and flickering, with due Asked why he had not declared care and attention to the fuel and with Sir Austen Chamberlain, but N.A.A.F.I. canteen in Wellington west and south, Brigadier Wong the ammunition prior to Innding, de trimming, with the flight of time,. had actually agreed to the text of Barracks, some person managed to gu-chu is Commander of the fendant said he was not aware of that light will burn no less bril- the Treaty,
break into the canteen between five districts of Heng-long, Ngou- the local regulations. He could llantly nor steadily than that of The dissolution of Parliament 9 p.m. on Saturday and '7.10a.m. hua. Leng-chiu, Ho-nguan and neither rend Chinese nor English its sister beacons. is not unlikely.
Yesterday and steal sundries to Chi-kim.
and therefore did not understand To you, Sir, the College is in- the total value of $160.
So far, there is not much news any notices requesting passengers debted for its name, for you will Apparently more than one man of fighting, but it is said that both with arms to declare same to the recollect that in March, 1926, Later.broke into the canteen, for it was at Iful-lai and at Hopho advances Captain of the ship. /
when you visited the building in it is understood that the found that a small iron safe which were made by the troops, but that] In imposing a fine of $200, or its incomplete atate, you selected Egyptian Cabinet has replied to contained between $200 and $300 they retired on the failure of the two months hard labour in de- tho style King's College title Lord Lloyd atating that the terms was also carried away.
villagers to provide sufficient food fault, his Worship said that it of which we all can be justly of the proposed new Treaty are On the police being notified, en- for them. This will necessarily be certainly, did not seem the defen- proud. It is my sincere hope that. unacceptable as they are incom-quiries were quickly set afoot with a problem.
dant was conscious of the regula-each student will strive to "live tions. In his opinion, the letter passed
up" to, and justify Its regal signi- patible with the independenes of the result that the safe was locat Tokyo, Mar. 4.
Famine Feared.
fication, and all that is implied Into the hands of politicians who It is officially announced that Egypt.
ed in the barrack yard. Exami-
thereby. book the chance of rousing the the condition of the Princess Hisa, It is contended that the terris nation proved that it was, intact, These comparatively large num« | country upon fraudulent issues, the youngest daughter of the Em-implied the right of Great Britain the thieyes, probably not having bera of troops are to advance Ile feels that the Foreign Office peror, who was recovering from an to occupy Egypt, which the the necessary gear with which to into a naturally poor district, officials erred in their judgment. attack of pneumonia, has suddenly Cabinet is quite unable to admit.[force it open.
Letter..
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald makęs it quite clear that he does not be-) lieve that the Zinovieff Letter was communicated to any outside body by anyone inside the Foreign Office, or by any other Department which received a copy of the let ter from the Foreign Office,
Political Fraud,
Reuter's American Service.
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JAPANESE PRINCESS SERIOUSLY ILL.
CONDITION SUDDENLY
CRITICAL.
He is unable to understand why become critical.--Reuter,
he was not informed by telephone) Princess Iisa in the younger of that the Daily Mail had secured the two daughters of the Emperor copies of the letter and intended and Empress of Japan, being born to publish it, or why he was not last year. The Emperor of Japan informed that the Foreign Office proposed, to send a Note to Mwas married in 1924, Kakowsky.
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald con- clades that he never formed any definite conclusion about the Zino-
vioff Letter, but the important point to be considered was not its authenticity, but the use to which! It was put--Reuter.
Commons Debate,
TANGIER PROBLEM.
AGREEMENT.
Independence of Egypt.
-Reuter.
Maintain the Old.
Paris, Mar. 3. Specially interviewed by Reuter while en route to Geneva, Sir Austen Chamberlain said it was now sufficiently clear that the Egyptian Government would not accept the treaty he had negotiat- ed with Sarwat Pasha.
GENERAL ELECTION
FORECAST.
KOWLOON DOCK 'PROFITS.
OVER TWO LAKHS TO DE CARRIED FORWARD.
•
EMINENT LAWYER'S
DEATH.
SIR HARRY POLAND, K.C. DIES AT 98.
London, Mar. 4.
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Past History.
more sturdy monarchs of the for- Salyingpun School dates back to 1879, in which year the Government decided to establish a Free School at West Point, and appointed as the first Headmaster Mr. Fung Fu a
At this juncture it will be of brought now to the verge of famine
interest to trace the past history by the deliberate policy of the
and development of the Salying- Soviet. Yet apparently very little,
pun School, of which King's Col- provision is being made for food
lege is the outgrowth, exemplify- supplies, and responsibility is
ing the proverb, "Great oaks from being thrust on the unfortunate
little acorns: grow." Although local inhabitants. It seems in any
The death is announced of Sir many years must elapse before cane inevitable that famine will Harry Poland, K.C., who was prob- maturity is reached, yet the visit the district, and this will be ably the oldest member of the legal sapling has taken root, and under terribly accentuated unless the profession. He was in his 90th the guidance of succeeding Head- Government arranges a Commis-year and had been a barrister for masters who must water the trgo We are informed by Mr. R. M. sariat Department of its Army. 73 years.-British Wireless.
and prune it and ruthlessly An eminent lawyer, who retired cut "It is a misfortune," he said, Dyer, Chief Manager of the Hong-
Party Landed.
away dead and decaying POWERS GIVEN TO SPAIN IN and added that British relations toung and Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd.,
from practice on receiving a knight branches, the young glant will at would continue to be regulated by that the Company's gross profits There is a report from people of hood in 1895, Sir Poland was for tain its full measure of growth, and the Declaration of 1922-Reuter. for the year ending 31st December, the district that the ships of the many years one of the counsel to rear its head amongst the older and 1927, subject to final audit, is Canton Navy have taken up post- the Treasury and the Home Office.
From 181 to 1904, he was Re- est. $700,564.33:
tions on the const of Hai-Luk After deducting interest, rates. Fung, and that one boat has enter-corder of Dover, and also for some Crown rent, insurance, directors' ed Swabue harbour. It is further year he was an alderman of the
London County Council. and auditors' fees, and allowing said that the vessel landed a party,
Since his retirement, the late Sir the sum of $62,017.81 for depre- before whom the officials of the Harry Poland had written much on ciation on buildings and plant, Soviet ed. This party, however, the reform of the law. He was a returned student from America, and PROBABLY BE HELD IN
there remains a het profit for the entered the hospital and schools bachelor.
who was selected after a compotl JUNE, 1929.
year of $138,436.99, to which must of the English Presbyterian Mis-
tive examination as an assistant be added the amount brought for-sion, which are occupied by the
teacher for the Central School 'London Mar. 4.
ward from last year, $68,414.11; Communists, execpt for some DRIZZLE OR MIST PREDICTED, where he remained for: ono year. The School was accommodated in Viscount Younger, speaking at making the total at credit of Pro-medical students forcibly detained
To-day's Observatory report Nos. 35, 37, 39 and 41 Third Street, Kilmarnock last night, said that the fit and Loss Account at 31st De-there by them, and it is said that
taken out and executed. has moved rapidly E.N.G, and now Punti Scholars, and the lower by the Directors propose to carry for- were until after the Budget of 1929, ward to new account.
Confirmation of this report, which extends from North Luzon to the Hakka pupila. Later English was comes from good sources, is now south of Japan.. A fresh anti-taught to both sections without dis- probably in June of next year.
awaited.
cyclone has formed over North tinction. There is much movement of China,.... The monsoon will freshen Like the child Samuel, the school The fifty-ninth ordinary general troops to and from Swatow, at along the south-east coast of grew and prospered and after a country had improved considerably, mecting of shareholders of the present. Detalls of the 42nd China and over the North China period of 12 years, the number in but the Chancellor of the Exchequer Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.,Army, which has been ordered Scar
wwwndationdance, had reached 110: The would not be able to do much to re-will be held at the offices of north, are following the main The forecast up to noon to late Dr. Eitel was instrumental in duce taxation this year--British Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., body, and a number left by morrow is North-east winds, inducing the Government to erect al Ltd., on Monday March 26 at China Merchant steamer yesterday, moderate; generally overcast, more permanent building which con. Inoon?:
some drizzle or mist (Continued on Page 1)
(Continued on Page 8).
Madrid, Mar. 4. A communique Issued to-day London, Mar. 4. statos that the Tangier negotiu- Matters raised in the report of tions, which resulted in an agree the Board of Inquiry into the ment between France and Spain, allegations regarding civil ser- turned mainly on the question of vants during the hearing of "the the powers to be given to Spain Franca casa" will be debated in to prevent Tangier and the hin- the Commons some time after the terland from being made the cen- return from Geneva of the Foreign tre of contraband, disaffection Secretary, Sh Austen Chamber-and armed oppression against the In in.
Spanish Zone and Morocco gen- It is anticipated that the Labour orally-Reuter. Party will direct particular atten- tion to the Zinovieff letter incident which was referred to in the re- port, but the newspapers believe The Prime Minister will decline the demand for a further inquiry into the Incidents connected with tha letter and the publication of it in the Press together with the Note of protest sent to Rakovsky, then
sentative in London, don Page 14).
LORD CHANCELLOR IMPROVED.
London, Mar. 4.
The condition of the Lord Chan- cellor, Viscount Cave, following his recent operation, fa reported to bo more satisfactory.British Wire
Icsa.
General Election would not be held comber, 1927, $202,051.10, which twenty or thirly of the Communists states:-The China Sea depression the upper floors being occupied by
The financial position of the
Wireless.
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