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MONGOLIA DESERT DOG RACING EVIL IMPRISONMENT FOR SHANTUNG
DISCOVERIES.
WHAT ANDREWS EXPEDITION UNEARTHED.
A NEW ELEPHANT.
Peking, Aug. 17.
Mr.. Roy Chapman Andrews un- derwent a heavy cross-fire of ques- tions from foreign correspondents this morning regarding his selen- tifie "inds" In Mongolia. Mr. An- drews and his fellow explorers did not discover remains of "pre-dawn" man, but nevertheless their Dodge
IN SHANGHAI.
CHINESE AGITATION
AGAINST.
ACTION FOR SUPPRESSION
DEMANDED.
A NEW CRIME WAVE.
PERJURY.
WITNESS IN DISTILLERY CASE SENTENCED.
SAID HE WAS NERVOUS.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1928.
TRADE HAYNES MOTOR CAR
DISPUTE.
STAGNANT.
EFFECT OF JAPANESE PRESENCE.
DISORDER RAMPANT OVER COUNTRYSIDE.
DEADLOCK CONTINUES.
Tsinanfu, Aug, 20.
ALEX. ROSS & COMPANY SUE KOWLOON HOTEL.
QUESTION OF DEBT.
In the Summary Court this morning, before Mr. Justice Jacks, a case was mentioned in which Co., Messrs. Alex Ross and (China) Ltd., Prince's Building, sued the Kowloon Hotel, Hankow Road, Kowloon, for the return of
or value of, a motor car which, it is understood, belonged to Mr. L E. Haynes.:
The writ stated "The defendant
detained from the plaintiffs, the plaintiffs' goods and chattel, that
car. The plaintiffs claim the re- turn of the said car or its value, is to say an Austin Seven motor
$936.53, and $50 for its detention." Mesare, Hastings, Dennys and Bowley are acting for the plain- tiffs and Messrs. Lo and Lo are defending.
Arising from the case in which the managing partner and a foki of the Wo Fung native distillery at Chinwan aro summoned for offences allegedly amounting to secret distillation of dutiable for and holding a culars from the Revenue Depart- As a result, no doubt, of the corment, To Hof, a witness called for lorries come into Péking loaded respondence which has appeared the defence, was charged before
It is nearly four months since with valuable fonsils, many of them in the Shanghai press regarding Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morning the Japanese forces took persea- being, the remains of animals gambling at the greyhound race with committing perjury in test-alon of the heart of Shantung, and hither-in unknown to man, relatos courses and the agitation of cor-mony which he gave before the there is yet no sign of their depar- the North China Star,
At the Interview this morningtain foreigners and Chinese for same Court yesterday afternoon. ture, Japan is resting on her arms, the suppression of greyhound The accused in reply to the por- Mr. Andrews was accompanied by
part of passive resister, Mr. Walter Granger, second in con- racing, on the ground that they jury charge sald:I told the and China is trying to play the
tempt the poorer class of people to Court all that I know. inand of the expedition.
Is Worship:-There are two! Meanwhile, in spite of reports The expedition made remarkable lose their money, the "one-dollar finds of mezolithle culture, which pari-mutuel for win and place at points in the perjury alleged to the contrary reaching Shanghai, was the transition period between Luna Park are to be abolished by ngainst you, (1), that before the trade is quite stagnant in this city (the expert process and tintil the Japanese move away the ok and new stone ages. On the Greyhound Racing Club and, szo foo previous trips into Mongolia Traces only five-dollar tickets will be sold worker) at the distillery arrived, and properly appointed Chinese had been found but this time A similar decision has been arrived the spirits had all run away from authorities take charge of affairs,
This morning Mr. A. E. Hall ap- enormous deposits of stong impleat by the Shanghai International the kong. In the next breath, you things are not likely (o get better.
unid that the size foo managed to
Most of the large shops in Tal-peared for Mr. Horace Le and ap- ments and other titings were found. Greyhound Club. From the nature of their discoveries In connexion with greyhound save some of the spirits.
nan have not opened since the plled for an adjournment which Accused: was confused. 1elash of arms,
was granted. they considered that these "dune-racing, various Chliese organiza- dwellers" must have populated tions are showing thels opposition had no need to tell lies, ns. I am
In the country districts border- It is understood that the chr Mongolia very thickly, more thickly to this form of sport in a very not connected with the distillery, than the Mongols to-day. It was spirited numner and, on Saturday being only an erector of scaffolding on the railway, confusion is was formerly being purchased by complete. Bands of armed men Mr. Haynes on the hire-purchase imagined that these people were kist the Chinese press published a ing.
His Worship:Another point of travel about, living on the people, system but that the payments were fengthy article, which took the
When the Assistant taking by force what they require not completed, full payment being form of letters to the Chinese perjury, authorities on the matter. How Superlufendent of Imports and from the towns and villages. It is short by the balance claimed, ever, of the Chinese organizations Exports and the Revenue Officer not possible to tell to which side The car is being held for debt by opposed to the sport, those most arrived, you said the kong was these men belong. Some claim to the Kowloon Hotel where Mr.
y expert smurers of birds, for among fossils found were large numbers of bones of birds and not a few bones of frogs. Some of their personal
adornments also were found.
New Mammal Foand.
BALTILO
swore that it was half-full.
Accused: I was speaking of happenings at night.
others declare their allegiance to the Colony.
Feng colleagues, the late Tupan Chang, and the rest are independent covers, flying no flug.
A ROYAL BIRTHDAY HONOURED.
RECEPTION TO-DAY. AT
vigorous One of their great finds was that payers Association, of which Mr. of the largest maminal that ever. S. Fung, chairman of the lived, larger than anything yel Chinese General Chamber of Com-
His Worship:-Still more Res? known about. Of this species beymerce, and Mr. Yu Ya-ching what were you doing there at
A No Man's Land, secured two skulls and a grint part foriner chairman of the of a skeleton which would make the organization, are joint chairmen, night? Do you mean to say you
All this confusion is an indirect were still erecting sealfolding at work of reconstructing the man- Proved Itself a Curae.
Besides, you result of the Japanese corridor mal no difficult.
In a letter to Mr. Wunsz King, 11.30 at night? Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, specified. In your evidence, three stretching from Tsingtao to Tal- the Association ask that the Com-times that at 4.30 pm. the kongan, because this strip, is a veri-
was empty,
table no-man's-land. The Japanese missioner should open negotiations i Acensed: This is my first ex-de nal profess to police it although with the Consular Body at once for perience in Court. I was nervous. their aeroplanes patrol it from
The Consul General for the thu suppression of existing Ilis, Worship:-1 see the distil- time to time, and in this zone, Netherlands was "At Home" at the courses and way, inter alia, that
these armed ownerless lands come morning on the ocasion of the an- greyhound racing has proved itself
forbidden to the Nationalists-Chancery, Asiatic Building, this with impunity, using it as a kind riversary of the birthday of Her to be a curse beneficial only to the
of refuge.
Majesty the Queen of the Nether- foreigners and a few Chinese who
lands, happen to be shareholders. There
To give an idea of the immense size the lemler said the humerus alone was four feet long and as thick as a man's body. Its beul, which was comparatively small, would be about 25 feet from the ground and its length about the same. It was an absolutely new form of mammal, probably related to the Baluchitherium and a con- zorvative estimate of its age was alx million years. Of the skeleton they secured rib-tones, hones from the feet and vertebrae, as well as leg bones. It probably would only be found in Asia and never travel- led so far as Europe,
Mr. Andrewa coughly estimated its weight at anything from 15 to
20 tons.
prize witness.
a
ery people have bailed you out,
Accused: furnished my own bail.
Ilie Worship:-Lieg again. are two courses, at present in ex-You mean to say that you, a seaf-
istener in the Foreign Settlement folding erector, has $100 for bail?very walls of cities near the rail- and these are attracting tons of Four weeks. thousands of persons every week.
A few go, they say for the pur- pose of witnessing the dogs run at the majority go for the purpage the of gambling. Included In latter are many labourers and poor people, who spend their hard-
LABOUR LEADERS COME TO BLOWS.
earned savings in trying to make MR, HERBERT SMITH AND MR. more money. But they lose, and,
are
involved in a financial mire out of
WILLIAM ALLAN.
London, Aug. 17.
They sometimes come up to the
way, and occasionally the Japanese will chase them a dozen miles or so as they recently did near Chowlsun.
The roads in the eastern half of Shantong are becoming unsafe, so that goods cannot be moved away from the railway.
DUTCH CONSULATE.
The Hon. Mr. W. T. Southor, Officer, Administering the Govern- ment, bricily proponed the toast of her Majesty, Mr. M. J. Quist, Con- aul General for the Netherlands, responding. Amongst those pre- sent were 1,E. Major General C.C. Luard and his A.D,C., Lieut. Commodore J. L. Richardson, Pearson and Pay. Comdr. Rogers, together with members of the Government, Hends of Depart- ments and members of the Con- sular body,
In honour of the occasion, Dutch
ships in the harbour this morning "dressed ship,"
ARTILLERYMAN ON TRIAL.
More Eggs Found.
From Chinese sources we hear Mr. Andrews admitted among
however, that one department of other things that he and his com-
trade is flourishing. It is the trade panions, had been birds-nesting in order to recoup their losses,
in arms and ammunition. This is again in that they had discovered they dive more deeply and now deposits of dinosaur eggs.
Mr. Herbert Smith, and Mr. Wil-going on in Tainan and several These eggs were more spherical which it is most difficult to extri-liam Allan, Secretary
of the other places on the railway, and than those found previously and cite themselves. The result is probably belonged to the gunned that they borrow, or even commit Lanarkshire Miners' Union, had thus these marauding bands keep ant type of dinosaur, They also crime, go to the races again in the another clash in Glasgow to-day themselves supplied. They fleeced brought up to Tsinan and spent found fossis of a dinosaur which hope of getting their money back in which the Intter again came off one city of $10,000 which they
on Binews of war. probably had been 90 to 100 feet and invariably they lose again. Hecond best.
Mr. Allan turned up betimes at In length.
Seldom do they come away win-
A Hopeless Deadlock. Another interesting fossil found hers.Tragedies occur as a result, a meeting of the Scottish Miners
The question between China was of the "saddle" mama The evil is no positive and the Executive, from which, it is under- which news reached Peking some danger so menacing that the stood, it had been already arrang and Japan seems to have come to days ngo. It was a Titanothere. Commissier of Foreign Affairs ed that he should be excluded.. Titanothere were found in Amer is asked to negotiate with the
When Mr. Smith arrived and hopeless deadlock. The Chinese merchants and ordinary folk keep ien but had never before been found Consular Body for the suppression. saw him, he (Mr. Smith) promptly on asking, "Cannot Amerien or in Asia. This find they stumbled existing courses and the preven-summoned the police and shortly Britain lend a friendly hand to
their entry sounds of negotiate equitable terms of acttle- The trial y District Court on when not long out of Kalyan intion of new ones from springing after an area in which, apparently, no
seule were heard. The door was ment?"
Martial of Gunner Shipley, Royal explorer had ever worked.
eventually thrown open and Mr.. If it were not too much to exArtillery, an charges of absenting it himself from Stonecutters Island Allan, was seen struggling with pect, we would suggest that
trust the and resisting arrest at the Star another member of the Executive. would pay Japan to
Mr. Allan was dragged outside, Chinese and offer to move out of Ferry Pler, Hongkong, on the night and did not attempt to re-enter the Shanglung before negotiations of August 15, was continued at
really begin.-N. C. Daily News.Murray Barracks this morning,
New Elephant Discovered. Mr. Andrewa drew attention to yet another completely new find, a hitherto unknown type of elephant.
up.
Blamed for Armed Robberies,
In the course of letters to the Consular Body and the French Consul-General, the Association says:---
the
The lower Jaw alone was six feet "In spite of the vigorous ended-ball. long and bad at the end of the jaw yours of the Police to suppress teeth looking lige long bony plates. At the tip the jaw is 18 inches armed rolliery and kidnapping,
these crimes have been on across and bears love teeth there about eight inches square and only increase. The Municipal author- ities have been devoting their half an inch thick.
onergies to the suppression of such crimes that they appear entirely to have lost sight of the original. cause of such conditions.
At first the scientists found two such teeth and were completely puzzled by them but later, purely by accident, Mr. Granger came upon a complete lower jaw of the animal 'Gambling, prostitution, opium with the teeth in place. The ex- and dance halls have been the pedition' did quite a lot of work, cause of many of these crimes for exploring about 1,000 square miles people frequenting these places which were mapped. The cars have lost their money, their posi÷| travelled about 5,000 miles in 10tion and their moral character and course of the few months they have they waste their energies, with result that they draft inta been in the field. The area explor the
ed lays between Inner Mongolia poverty and become armed robbers and Kalgan, much of it entirely for kidnappers or they even go as new and Interesting country,
far as to commit suicide. It is a shame that such black spots. In society should be tolerated."
ROAD SLEEPING-CAR.
MAKES MAIDEN TRIP TO
LIVERPOOL
A
"But the opening of the grey- hound race courses have had oven worse effect than tho' crimes we have enumerated. The fact that they are permitted to re- main is ke legalizing gambling and encouraging crimb in the London, Aug. 16. England's first road sleeping-International Settlement and the French Concession. Should the car started at 11, o'clock laat night on its maiden trip from London to foreign authorities feel that they
aro unable to deal with these Liverpool, where it is scheduled to places and suppress crime, then arrive at eight o'clock this morn-they should allow the Chinese Government, who are the real own-
ing.
The car is fitted with 12 bunks, ers of the territory, to deal with six on each side of a central gang them. We realize that you will way, three on the "ground floor" sympathize with our aspirations in and three in the tier above.
Each bunk is provided with bringing about better conditions among the Chinese people and blankets and diminutive eider-
pray that you will instruct the downs.
Municipal Council to suppress The coachwork of the car is existing greyhound courses in packed with rubber to reduce order to maintain peace and vibration. The wheels are fitted uphold order and protect civiliza- with balloon tyres.
tion as a whole.”
COURT MARTIAL STILJ. UNFINISHED.
Evidence for the defence was called, Lance Bombardier Cotton, who, at the conclusion of Shipley's trial, will himself be brought be fure the Court on a charge of strik- ing Military Pollce, giving evidence for the accused.
Warder. Hodge, who was with Shipley and Cotton at the time, and a European police Sergeant, who arrived on the scene during the latter stages of the Incident, were also called by the defending officer.
The court adjourned till this afternoon at 2 o'clock.
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