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XD KL†ÂUXE SATURDAY APRIL 14, 1928.
BREMEN CROSSES OPIUM SMUGGLED MASKED PIRATES
ATLANTIC.
FIRST FLIGHT FROM
WEST TO EAST.
GERMANS ARE REPORTED NEAR QUEBEC.
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ST. JOHN'S RADIO.
the coast of Québec,
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Unfavourable Weather.
OPENLY.
DRUG FROM CHINA SEIZED IN THE STRAITS.
GENEVA DISCUSSION.
Genova, Apr. 13. The refusal of the, Secretariat to furnish the Press with the annant report on the traffic in oplum and other dangerous goods led
AS GAOLERS.
SOLVIKEN PASSENGER
RANSOMED.
|EIGHT MONTHS IN HANDS OF HIS CAPTORS.
journalists to protest ul a meeting | A MOUNTAIN PRISON, of the Opium Committee which, after a discussion, rectified the complaint.
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MINAL COP 10 CENTS
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BUICK 1928-
Examine Buick carefully, part by part. You'll find every bit of material used-p every nut and cotter pin-of-the highest quality
Open Models,G81,525 to GS2,070). Ulosed Models...$1,610 to $2,600:
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
Telephone Central 1248 or 1247 Đ 35, Wond Nei Chung Road.
Happy Valley.
BYE-ELECTION IN CONSTRUCTION CO Bulls and Inners
LONDON.
DIPLOMAT MAY CONTEST MARYLEBONE
NOTABLE CAREER.
London, Apr. 13. At a meeting to-night, Sir Ren- nell Rodd will be proposed as the ufflelal Conservative candidate in
PROSPECTS.
SAVING IN GENERAL CHARGES.
REORGANISATION PLAN TO BE TRIED OUT.
the by-election in the London THE SHARE CAPITAL. Borough of Marylebone, necessi-
A reduction in general establish
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A local residents' Association is Why is a popular suspender Jiko agitating for university, research ́a swoop ticket? Because no on the breathing system of frogs, metal ean touch you.
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"Safety First:”—A WOMAR Some men lose their balance and· should always take the cigaretta marry, Others marry and lose out of your mouth before she pulls. their balance. the nightgown over her head.
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The latest bridal vella have Our idea of disarmament is to insects embroidered on them. build warships by public subscrip- All the same, there are no flles ont tion..
the modern girl. ᄆᄆ Sports note--Soon our bathing "Some men," declares a novelist; of form.
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After being in captivity for overlated by tho, alevation of Sirment charges to the extent of belles will be out to show their "are continually thinking
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ninepence each in Sydney, It was also revealed that the
will not compete with local
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It appears from a radio message Trom Newfoundland, received just
eight months one of the Solviken's Certain discrepancies were not-assengers, taken away by pirates Douglas Hogg to the Lord Chan- $2,000 per menil was announced
marriage." They are the ones before we went to press, think, the
who remain bachelors. German flyers have sucepeded, ind in the German and Dutch re-following the seizure of that vessel cellorship.
by Mr. R. G. Shewan in presiding,
Football Poser:-If a team has making the first Atlantic crossings. Sir Malcolm Delevingue on a voyage between Hongkong and
The adoption of Sir. Rennell meeting of shareholders of the
this morning, at the sixth annual three drawn games in & season "British Industries Fair," anys from west to east. They are reipported. M. Bourgeois who sug-1Saigon during August of last year Rodd' who, is in his 70th year, Hongkong Engineering and Can-how many times may it be photo a heading. We thought they were ported to be at Greenly lafund, onested a uniform system of control has just been liberated after pay-
for goods in transit. It was de-ment of a heavy ransom.
graphed?
doing
remarkably well. would mark the entry of a dia-struction Co., Ltd.
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The passenger in question. Nginguished displomat into political Company will in future carry on belfry: You can't saw a School Spanish Government be drawn to Kun Yee, a clerk who was on his
To-day's stray bat from the Backscratchers are being sold at the absence of information regard way to take up a position with the life. He has performed Ambassa. business purely as contractors and Board. London, Apr. 13. ing exports, thereby precluding the Compagnie Agricole Indochinoise dorial service in most of Courts architects and civil engineers in the
are not tickled. There was no news of the Bremen possibility of a comparison with of Saigon, has returned to Hong of Europe and has been engaged preparation of designs and plans. wrath:
0.0 A soft tyre doesn't turn away Biting an onion is reported to at 10.30 this morning. She was last the quantities not consumed.
kong. In an interview with a Tele-
have saved a man's life in Glas- sighted at sea at 3,30 p.m. yester÷ There was an animated discus- graph representative, he gave his in special, miasions in the East The Company will, stated Mr.
gow. Effective, but in bad odour. day. Weather reports for the sin by the British and Chinese impressions of his sojourn amongst and other parts of the world.
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Taipo news: Sap le rising; fre advcrac. The delegates on the subject of open the pirates.
From 1908 to 1919, he was British
mowers in dry dock; rice being The contemporary which stated.: Majestic, one day out from South-smuggling, especially in the ampton, radioed that heavy head-Straits, the allegation being that ashore, he and the seven other cap
He stated that on being taken Ambassador in Italy.
planted; looks like a good season that the distance from Tokyo to wind had developed, enough to large quantities of opium from tives from the Solviken, were labour candidate, Sir Douglas At the last election, against the
in the district is normal. for mosquitoes. Otherwise crime Hanol was 4,000 miles must have
stretched its imagination. effect the filers seriously,
China were seized there. This marched inland to the mountain Hogg won the seat at Marylebone The Bremen has no wireless and subject will be discussed again fastnesses of the region between by a majority of over 15,000 votes.
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до lifesaving
appliances. The when the Far East report comes the North and East Rivera. His-British Wireless. rations consist of eighteen beef up later-Retter,
captors were, Hakkas, and he be sandwiches, six oranges and six
lieved they were disbanded soldiers bananas, chocolate, and aine flasks
who ut one time or other had fought under General Chan Kwing- ming.
of beeflea, tea, and coffee.--Reuter,
Reported Sighted.
New York, Apr. 13. The Canadian Press reports that the Bremen has been sighted over Kingport,, Nova Scotia.- Reuter's American Service.
Shipper's Conviction,
Kingport, Apr. 13.
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MUSLIM HÖSTEL.
NEW BUILDING TO BE ERECTED.
The plan for the construction of a new Muslim Hostel in Shelley Street has been approved by the Building Authority.
Pirates' Faces Masked.
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HOSTILITIES IN THE NORTH.
MANY ARMIES ON THE MOVE.
Shewan, shortly have two complete Franki piling equipments, each at Hongkong, Shanghai and Tientsin.
winding up the Company should not Chairman were that the idea of Further statements made by the
be entertained until the reorganisa tion recently effected has been
It looks as if thoroughly tried out, and that the there won't be question of reducing the share any Philippine capital at present remains in wood used In abeyance.
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U. S. political: platforms this
year.
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Sergeant (lo recruit): "Under 'Comradeship we put
The things a man would do for another. What would you do
if your friend had his break.. fast on the table, hia buttons were not cleaned, and the bugle sounded for parade?”
"I would eat his breakfast fór him, while he cleaned his buttons,"
Heudlar ve may yet live to enthi Horing Scene: Victoria
LabRatched."
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A lot of fuss
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Is being made In New York about a "talk- ing: dog" Hongkong, it'a usually the talking
cats
that miaka All the trouble.
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actress has been confined to bed for three weeks with "Hu. She is now four divorce & In
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are we going to
'swear at?
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Newlyweds: Spring tied
A report is being compiled on accidenta to pedestrians. Of
Lour Jack Tars are course it will be only an inter 'em,
report.
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Chairman's Speech. Addressing the shareholders, 0.0 Mr. Shewan said:--Gentlemen,--- In any case, after having turned
The Filipino pirates, they were anxious to avoid
With your permission, I propose to students who take as read the report and achit an official contact with the regulare, and dur-
counts for the year 1927, printed in the head ing those eight months of captivity
That hostilltles have broken in copies of same baving been in they moved their prisoners from one place to another, rarely stay-many sectors of the Chinese war your hands for the prescribed with stones, because they Ing in any one place for longer zone is Indlented by messages period. The contract for the erection of period than one month.
which londers of the Fengtien and No doubt it will be disappoint
were given An aeroplane flying high in the building was signed by four
Nationalist forces have dispatched ing to all concerned to learn that Low examina When at those moments when to their respective headquarters the accounts for last year show.ation points, did west-south-west direction was Trustees representing the Muslim sighted at 10.30 this morning, local community of Hongkong with they had necessarily to appear during the past few days.
further loss amounting to $52,020. manage to get time, by the Captain of the Cana-Messrs. Hung Tui & Co., contrac-before the prisoners, they were
An, overnight Chinese telegram 53. This can be attributed in the 86 me high dian Government steamer, Arrastors, of Kowloon. The building will careful to keep their facs covered anys that Marshal Sun Chuan-main to the very slow recovery of marks after all who is convinced that the aero-be an imposing two-storeyed strue-with masks.
fang, one of the most influential of the building trade in South China, plane is the "Bremen."—Renter's ture and when complete will com- Ng Kam-yee said the rations the Fengtien lenders, has wired to together with the fact that the Many mon
mand a good view of the harbour. allowed to him and the other pri-Peking stating American Service,
that Marshal year in question has had to bear get married be. It will be credit to the community soners were poor in quantity and Chang Chung-chang arrived at charges in respect of depreciation cause of a Misa No News Whatever.
and a boun to Muslim travellers.
quality. They suffered all forms Lincheng, Shantung, and since and establishment expenses which, understanding London, Apr. 13. The constructipu of the Hostel of cruelly, being often bastinadoed then fighting has broken out in the although a, reducing quantity, the was the coteome of the suggestion when the pirates fretted over the southern and western parts of were, in total, still out of pre- Countless rumours that
Fansom Shantung and along parts of the portion to the amount of work "Bremen" had landed flew from of Khan Sahib Nawab Khan, of the tardy, arrival of their
Tientsin-Pukow Railway, mouth to mouth in America and Indian Moslem Society, who was money.
secured and completed. Through the efforts of his wife Fighting is also going on along
I said on a similar occasion last Europe following the usual fantas- further instrumental in securing
and relatives to whom he had the Peking-liankow and Ching-year that the policy of the Direc tic stories of the sighting and funds for the erection of same. hearing of aeroplanes at dozens of
Khan Sahib Nawab Khan is at-written many letters explaining the ting-Taiyuen lines, as a vernacular tors would be to reduce our Gett tached to the Hongkong Police miserable situation in which he cable states that General Yang Yu. different points..
Exhaustive enquiries along the Force and is a popular member of found himself, Ng Kam-yis was at ting and General Chang Hsueh-eral charges to the absolute min
mum compatible with officicney, coasts of Now England and Nova the Muslim community. He is one of length freed on the payment of liang, son of Marshal Chang Tso- so as to conserve such working. to lin, are now directing their men at capital as still remained, in order Shihchitachuang and making pre that we might take full advantagű parations to launch offensives on Pirate as Guide.
the Nationalist troops along the of the slightly improved prospec
of business which appeared to ha Then he was taken to the point two railway lines. of embarkation on a river, with a
An authentic Chinese cable says opening out. This policy pirate as his guide, and given in that the Nationalists have concen- been rigorously followed, but n structions as to how to make his trated a big Army, consisting of without some little sacrifice, and way back to Hongkong. After 100,000 men, at Haichow, ready to am now in a position to state three days of travel by boat and move up and launch attacks on that as from 1st January train, he eventually arrived in districts in the north-eastern and our general establishment charges Hongkong yesterday, looking some north-western-sectors of Haichow, will be less by some $2,000 p what ill-nourished but otherwise! A telegram dated yesterday, month as compared with any rare la Plante is advertised as ducing the price of hair-cuts, But very little the worse for his un- from Shanghai, reports that after vious year. usual experience.
his announcement of a general A Better Complexion. Reports have been received from Interesting presentations to Mr. The Solviken, a Chinese steamer attuck at the Fengtion Army the
Apart from the fact that more. "Christian General, Marshal Nova Scotia that an aeroplane, be- James Hyde, of the Hongkong and flying the Norwegian flag, was lieved to be the German machine Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., pirated in July of last year after Feng uchsiang, is reported to than half of the loss for the year was like the silver plate on a smoke shows that you don't need
of depreciation, coffins "Bremen," was sighted there this who is proceeding llome an retire leaving. Hongkong on a voyage to have mobilized all his troops on 1927 consists morning. The Captain of the Cana- ment next week, were made yester. Saigon by pirates who boarded her the eastern sector to move up to charges over which we have do dian Government steamer Arras day.
in the usual guise of passengers the front against the Fongtien-ites. control, it will be seen a
A British naval wireless mes- reduction in general establishment says he saw the aeroplane with
In the afternoon, "Mr. Hyde was several persons aboard but it was
The vessel was taken to Bias Bay sage says it is reported that charges of approximately $241,000
General Pel Tsung-bel and for the current year should gat flying too high for him to distin- presented by the foreign staff of
where bullion and cargo amounting Kuish markings. The same aero the Wharf and Godown Company to over $20,000 in value, was General Chen Chien are massing much better complexion an
the southern accounts. plane appears to have been seen with a blackwood tea-table, and by moved ashore. Eight Chinese were their troops on at various points in Yarmouth the Chinese and outdoor staff with kidnapped from the ship and, of section of the Kinhan Railway.
a gold wristlet watch.
these it appears that Ng Kam-yee However, there is no confirma- Last evening, at the Kowloon has been the only one freed so far tion that the machine in queston Bowling Green Club, Mr. Hyde was by the pirates.
Scotia have proved fruitless, how-the four Trustees acting in con- ransom
ever.
money
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junction with Mr. S. A. Sepler, an: $3,366.
The architects are Mesars. Den-
A hóuxer actually telephoned to other Trustee, in effecting Improve- Berlin from New York describing ments in the Mosque und Cemetery.
the airmen's landing at New York
with enormous crowds and bands nison, Kan and Gibbs.
playing the German and American National Anthems, but New York wired at 10.15 in the evening, (Greenwich time), that there was no news of the airmen.-Reuter.
No Confirmation.
>County.
Loudon, Apr. 13.
LEAVING FOR HOME,
PRESENTATIONS TO MR. JAMES HYDE,
here.
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was that of the German flyers made the recipient of a travelling Captain Koch and Baron von clock, together with a blackwood, Huendafeld who, with Commandant base, suitably inscribed, enabling SUGAR ́DUTY MAY BE
Fitzmaurice of the Irish Free the clock to be used in the house. State, left Ireland yesterday morn-Mr. B. Wylle. President of the lug to fly the Atlante-British Club, in muking the presentation, Wireless.
Plane at Greenly Island.
stated that Mr. Hyde had been a
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BRITAIN'S FOREIGN
MINISTER.
hat Boxing Eve has broken the local. pugilistic aago- thinking of staging a Enock-outs.
The sailor who wrote complain-
point since 1922. But it's always liable to bounce again.
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Coincident with the news of the
cot Roledy a conduct in the Communist discloauros in Tokyo, edral thinks it was decidedly the Hongkong Observatory notified that "the Japan depression bas passed into the Pacific.".
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uniform is g-white in with weather conditions.
Local Chinese barbers are TG- ☐ ☐ Appearing in Silk Stockings. Not you can atli get a close shave in
Pedder Street for nothing, ven earrings?
This week's simile. Her smile
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Come paper,.
By the process of imination, apparently.
The way some of these flappers
to be a widow to take up the wesde. 0.0 By kidnapping one political boss and knocking out another by a blow on the head, Chicago is making. America safe for demo- The Prince of Wales' fame cracy.
0 0 In this connexion, Ital#) would seem to be falling off.
Caustic soda provents that opportunity ofrinking.kstrar
The French airmen econ took off schoolgirl complexion. Directorem
Last Ins from Hanol. No doubt they'd regard to the galera olicy of the have been annoyed if they. We know a husband who's the Company shally that fa future couldn't please
light of his wife's life-sho won't G CM let him go out at night. the Company should carry 03
Talking of filmas, Hongkong is business purely ae contractors and should not compete with local still un-Dawn-tod architects and civil engineers in
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Bread, cheese end kisses appear to be out of favour according to
the preparation of designs and If the Fixed Easter movement the number of silver sweet diehos plana on bohalt of clients.
bears any fruit, is to be hoped in lists of local wedding presents.
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PENDING, HOLIDAY IN
HOLLAND.
London, April. 18. member of the General Committee REPORTED INTENTION OF MİL
Sir Austen and Lady Chamber. As a natural consequence of it will be an immovable date, and the Building Sub-Committee,
CHURCHILL.
lain, with their son and daughter, this, your Directors found it un- St. Johns, Apr. 14.' and his advice and assistance in
arrived to-day at the Hook of Hol necessary to retain the services From a Gibraltar hotel lonngo Beach-knuts will soon be in sen London, Apr. 13, land for a short holiday in Holland. of Mr. L. Gain as Manager and it is reported that Admiral Col- The wireless operator at Amour the interests of the Club had been Point, Newfoundland, had wire-invaluable, Mr. Hyde suitably
With the object of helping the They immediately proceeded to The Civil Engineer, and Mr. Gain ae-lard ejaculated "Hellol hure's old Jessed the following message "Ger- replied.
British refiners suffering competh Hague, where they will be the cordingly returned to Europe on Dewar!" It is not stated what he. When a girl starts seriously, "man plano at Greenly Island."—
tion by the dumping of foreign guests of Mr. Richard Tobin, the 3rd. January, 1928. Mr. 8. C. was looking at.
com. Cook our Secretary, then
... white sugar and the subsidised American Minister.
: Reuters American Service.
of Belle Isle on the coast of
Greenly Island is in the Straits
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'thinking about: marriage; it's usually after she's been married. about a year..
A Chinese named Wong Shing Home-grown best sugar, Mr. To-night, M. Beelacrts Van Blok-bined the duties of Secretary and Messrs. Brewer announce fuk has made a strange report to Churchill, in the forthcoming Buidland, the Dutch Foreign Minister, Manager, and our executive staff "Popular Guide to the Heavens.", Quebec, north-north cast of New the police, According to his story, get, is credited with the intention is giving a dinner in honour of the was reinforced by the arrival of The answer is a motor car. foundland,
Mr. R. Simmons, a constructional he entrusted the sum of $2,500, to reduce the duty on dugar British Foreign Minister.
On Monday, Sir Austen and Lady engineer who has had, wido ex- in Canton currency, to a friend to polarising at and below 98 degrees,
One of the outstanding por Chamberlain will be entertained to perience with leading firms of bo .converted into Hongkong
Opposition is expected from dinner by Jonkheer van Karnebeek, Contructors both in England and formers in "Three Live Ghosts Tha coxswain of the Man Yan
The friend took the Australia and Mauritius whose the former Foreign Minister, and abroad. Ifo came to us in the was a police inspectra. money. ferry launch running between money on April 9th and since then sugars have a polarisation of 99 on Tuesday they will be present at
With second-hand cars, you buy in kaste and repaint at leisure.
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tion is the process by which a girl A new definition: Sophistica gets her modesty equipped with
terday responsible for the rescue being asked about the money, sald ment, at the request of the Austra Sir Austen will, during his at-ger straight from the completion. Recent, Helenn May musicales shock absorbera, 3. Hongkong and Yaumati was yeu-Wong had scen his friend, who, op degrees. The Australian Governa dinner at the British Legation capacity of General Works: Mana- of a Chinese woman who jumped he entrusted it do his wife to Han producers, has made n-repre- visit the Dutch bulb gardens. near of Important works in southern' recall the lady who guld.she knew into the Harbour in an attempt to chango, but that she had abscond-sentation to Mr. Churchill The Hague and Haarlem-British commit suicide.
ed.
Reuter.
Wireless.
India
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how to enjoy Beethoven, and A Chinese General's chief Schumann, but couldn't remember trouble now, is to find the same what ona had to do to enjoy Bach, revolution he used to know