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AND
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FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1928.
SHAMROCK DAY IN LONDON,
The Duchess of York Inspecting the Irish Guards on Shamrock Day in London. This cerc mony used to be performed by Queen Alexandra.
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The Frommier Hotel in Kowloon with all modern conveniences. High Class Cusine and Table Appointments.. Wonderful view of the Harbour and Peak, and five minutes from the Ferry, Wharves and Bállway Station. Representative meets all steamers.
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Daily Rates from Monthly Rates from
$ 0.00. $130.00.
Under the Personal Supervision and attention of
Tel. No. K.608 & K.609.
MR. & MRS. H. J. WHITE.
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PALACE HOTEL
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Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station. Entirely, under English Management. Electric Light and Fan throughout. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms. Every Room with Private Bath, Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress. Terms moderate. Special terme to families on application to:
Mrs, J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietress,
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FIXED FOR NEXT WEEK.
London, Apr. 19.
SELLING CHINESE
CHILDREN.
PACKED IN TRUNKS FOR TRANSPORT.
DEATH OF “FATHER” OF LORDS.
LORD EVERSLEY DIES AT AGE OF 97.
A FAMOUS LIBERAL.
.!
SOME FOUND dead.
It is with much regret that we Changchow, Apr. 2..
record the death which occurred The Rt. Hon. Mr. J. R. Clynes
There has been a wave of kid-yesterday, in his ninety-seventh asked in the House of Commons
of Lord Eversley, the to-day for an early dalo to be fix-napping children in Changchowyear,
ed for the Opposition debate on the past week. Several have been "Father" of the House of Lords. The announcement le cabled by the "mishandling by the Govenien: some of them have been Router: ment of the rubber question."
that
Better known as Mr. Shaw Lefevre, he was a prominent
Mr. Stanicy Baldwin replled found, but too late to save the lives that he was so attracted by the of some of them,
In one instance, a wheelbarrow Liberal member of the House of Litle of the discussion (laughter)
station; in the trunks were served as a Cabinet Minister under that he would like it to be heard was taking a load of trunks to the Commons for over forty years, and Firat elected to Parliament in at the earliest possible date,
He promised to afford an early children, and somehow the men Mr. Gladstone on many occasions. pushing the load of precious life House date but said that the
when he was defeated by Mr. would not be furnished with the gave away the secret to one of the 1863, he sat for Reading until 1885,
station police. Civil Research Committee's report
When the trunks were opened Charles T. Murdoch. He resumed Commons by on which the Government decision
some of the children were dead, his place in the was taken, prior to the debate.
their mouths being packed with winning the Central Bradford con- Later it was announced the Premier had fixed April 20th cotton and then their lips made stituency and sat for that division secure. Their hands were made until 1895. He was created Baron for the rubber debate.
fast behind their bodies. There in 1900.
Lord Eversley had a most re- Mr. Ramsay MacDonald is ex-was a small hole in each trunk to
markable Parliamentary career:[ pected to lead the Oppositionat in a little air. What suffering
A most convincing speaker, he de- attack-Reufer.
they must have gone through! They were being carried to Shang-cupied many highly important
Cabinet posts. Government Action Explained.
hai for sale.
He carried the vole in the House Singapore, Apr. 19.
One little girl was sold in of Commons for the arbitration of Speaking at Kuala Lumpur Mr. Ormsby-Gore said that the reason Changchow. The woman said she the Alabama clains, 1868; was the Government had decided to was so poor she could not keep Secretary to the Board of Trade: abandon rubber restriction lay in the child and so pawned her for under Mr. Bright, 1860-71, carried the unsatisfactory nature of the $6. The parents were looking for the General Tramways Act, Under- facts and figures connected with the 'lest child when they suddenly Secretary Home Office, 1871, Secre- the industry. Money and science an across her at the door of the tary to the Admiralty, 1871-74, had heen lavishly expended in an family who had just bought her. First Commissioner of Works, attempt la defeat the policy of re-The woman who had committed 1881-83, Postmaster-General, 1883, striction by cheapening reclaimed the crime was caught, Some of in which capacity he established rabber and the use of less real these kidnappers have been caught the 6d. telegram.
and are being held till the others
rubber.
UNEASY FEELING IN
PEKING.
It was inevitable when govern-are found.-Shanghai Times. ment tied up commerce that dif ficultles should arise" The in- dustry's only hope was to become more eficient and he advised the growers to give practical supporti to the Rubber Research Institute. He emphasised that the govern- ment had taken no decision against British interests but state action was caseless. The industry must sland alone-Reuter.
NEW YACHT. FOR THE
"GOVERNOR.
· (Continued from Page 1)
He was chairman of many impor- tant committees, principally those which had to deal with the Married Woman's Property Act, the Bright: Clauses of the Irish Lund Act, the London Parochial Charities Act. the Agricultural Holdings Act, and Railway Charges.
He has written, extensively, his publications including English and Irish Land Questions, Incidents of line of his armies. Troops in Coercion, Peel and Ireland, the Shantung are to retreat to the Partitions of Poland, the Turkish north bank of the Yellow River, Empire, its Growth and Decay, and the units on the Peking-Hankow an autobiography. line are to move back to Paoting, whilst in the Shanai districts there will soon be a general retirement:
of the Fongtien armies. It la RAIN AND FOG FORECAST. stated that the Peking leaders have "BRITTANIA" LAUNCHED THIS resolved to abandon the idea of
Observatory To-day's
report MORNING.
[fighting General Yen Shi-shan,
tates:-The anticyclone has pass Martial Law has also been oned into the Pacific. Another has The new yacht, Brittania, bullt forced in Tsingtao au folius formed over North China. The In- for His Excellency the Governor,
Assurance to Foreigners. do-China depression has deepened was launched at the slipyard of Ah
and is now central to the north- King this morning, the ceremony
The Chinese Foreign Ministry of west of Haiphong. The forecast being performed by Misa Clementi in the presence of His Excellency, Klangeu Proyince announces that up to noon to-morrow is:-East Lady Clementi and a number of on Wednesday Marshal Chiang winds, moderate; overcast; raini
Kai-shek informed the authorities fog. other distinguished guests.
·
His Excellency was attended by of the foreign Settlements in Captain Dowbiggin, A.D.C., others Shanghai that the Nationalist Gov-
present being Commdr. J. B. Newill, crament will assume the respon- HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?
Swann sibility of protecting the property (Harbour Master), Mr.
A
menee, by templing her to stop and pick up
t
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(Government Marine Surveyer), and lives of foreignera living in- Mr. R. R. Roxburgh (Thorneycroft side the war zone.
The following are the replies to and Co. and Mrs. Roxburgh,
The Kiangal Nationalist lender, Subsequent to the launching, General Chu Pel-teh, together to-day's questions:
1. Ica hockey. 2. Chicago,, 8. Marquis Cur- tonsts were drunk to the success of with twc other Nationalist leaders, zon of Kedaion. A famous park fast the new vessels, those by whom she arrived at Hauchowfu on Wednes outside Paris: 6 Bise was to marry the ad would be employed and her builders. day morning to take part in the mirer who could beat her in rare. 190- The new launch is a twin-screw Northern Expedition. General three guides apples which he threw on the COUTS, WAS accessInt, . Whin; fare. I. craft, engined to 76 hp. with a Chứ has been appointed as Com-enlos. 6. An office of profit or honour with Thorneycroft kerosene equipment, mander of the Nationalist troops at duties attached. 9, Forgo Her dimensions are:-Length 75 on the fifth route.
go before" "forgo" means "40 relinquish A perfect. AE. 15. The sequoles of can. fect; beam, 14.6 feet; and depth;
On Wednesday, the Nationalist forming some Australian ancalyptus Brow taller, but they are of much less circumference, 8.6 feet.
Government appointed General Hu 12. Brutus and Casalus. Tsung-tu, a Hunan Nationalist lender, as. Commissioner of the Detectives are making inquires A man who was to have been one Wuchang-Hankow Political Coun-into the loss of jewellery worth of the chief witnesses for the pro-cil, and General Mow Pei-nam as about £1,000 belonging to Mies secution in the White Russian Com-Commissioner of the Nanking Dorothy Vaughan, of Regent Court, munist trial which is now being Military Council. It is note Park-road," N.W. Miss Vaughan, held at Vilna has been shot and killworthy that General Mow laat Is stated, travelled by ear from ed in a restaurant by a number of lender of, the "Ironsides," which Maidenhead to her home. On her well-known
Communists. They recently joined in the Northern arrival, she missed a case contain were arrested on the spot.
Expedition.
ng the jewellery.
War Days & Parls Nights!
THEY made you laugh every time you saw them in "What Price Glory!" They will delight you beyond measure in their own big special comedy!-
The GAY RETREAT
With
TED MCNAMARA & SAMMY COHEN
ROMANCE, suspense and comedy in the exhilarating story of a comic couple who joined the army to look after a sleep-*. walking comradel
Action--Thrills-Laughs!
AT THE
QUEEN'S TO-DAY and
TOMORROW
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 and 9.20.
THE STRANGE drama of a man forced to pose CONRAD VEIDT
as the brother of the woman he adores!
Arthur Edmund Carew, Ian Keith George Stegmann, o Barbara Bedfund GROSIR MELFOTED PRODUCTION
Behind him lay the dread past-before him the fear of discovery. A picture. packed with suspense.
AT THE
WORLD
¡Orchestra 9.15 and 9,20,
MAN'S PAST
UNIVERSAL
PICTURE.
TO-DAY and TO-MORROW
Interpretar 2.50 and 7.15.
"doormat" mother AN UNUSUAL story of a
and what happened when she began a royal
revolt!-
THE
HONEYMOON
AT THE
STAR
EXPRESS
With
IRENE RICH
HOLMES HERBERT
HELENE COSTELLO
JOHN PATRICK
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
Continuous 2.30 to 11.15.