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TALENT SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1928. DIA
NAVY COMPROMISE CARVALHO YEO NOW SUN FO RETURNS MUTINY ON BRITISH BILLS OF LADING
TERMS OUT.
STRONG DISAPPROVAL IN AMERICA.
PRESIDENTIAL THREAT OF BIG BUILDING.
IN HONGKONG.
BROUGHT FROM CANTON BY
POLICE LAST NIGHT.
source
WILL BE TRIED HERE.
From an authoritative this morning, the Telegraph learns of that Carvalho Yao, the man doubtful nationality, who is want, ed by the Hongkong police für frauds by which the Ilangkong Treasury, was robbed of over $260,000, was brought to Hong- kong last night from Canton on the s.s. Tong On.
STEAMER.
TO CHINA.
WARM WELCOME AT SHANGHAI.
FOURTH ENGINEER. BADLY HURT IN FRACAS,
NEED OF CAPITAL AND FOREIGN EXPERTS.
GENEVA STILL HOPES.alleged complicity in the daring HOPES FOR FUTURE.
London, Sept. 21. Official circles in London admit the substantial accuracy of the de- tails in regard to the Anglo-French
The accused man was brought naval limitation pravovals given. In a document published by the Nowhere under police cacort. the most York America, parorting to be letter addressed by M. Briand, the French Favign Minister, to French Ambeyanlorn in the chief
capitals of the worl
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A LASCAR OUTBREAK.
Parlo, Sept. 21 A startling story comes to hand
Dunkirk, reporting from mutinous outbreak on n British! steamer bound for the Far East.
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LEGISLATION.
HONGKONG LAW TO BE
· AMENDED.
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INTERNATIONAL UNIFORMITYour local anglers.
IS SOUGHT.
TWO MAIN OBJECTS.
The Gazelle contains the draft of an Ordinance to amend the law with respect to the carriage of
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The Budget provides "hard "Enquirar"-Lord Nelson may lying" allowances for crews of the have had a sat-back in 1750, when Import and Export Department ho was a year old, but most his- launches. There appears to be torians are agreed that the Battlö hope yet for golfers and some of of Trafalgar occurred some time.
after that date.
. .. D'O A contemporary refers to the The Marine Magistrate la still capture of an entire "hoard" of having trouble with theso vulga elephants. Probably they were bontmen.
RD The vessel concerned is the City
caught near a bank. liner, the s.s. City of Chester. Sho
The well-known proverb not Spain's Dictator wasn't shot, withstanding, the overfed worm was bound from the Tyne to Far Shanghai, Sept. 21. Eastern ports, and had called at
after all. It was merely a report, who arrives late at the theatre
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usually gets the bird. When the Empress of Canada Dunkirk,
"Header:"-You may wear
0:0 When the vessel was leaving, a arrived here this evening, over a
goods by sea,
bathing suit over your waistcoat Great words of little wives: The object of this Bill is to give but on no account must your "The night air does you no harm thousand enthusiastic Kuomin- score of Lascars, for reasona
ascertain, effect, as regards outward bills of braces be shown
at the Club; so you will be nice tang members and representatives which up to the present it han of various Chinese public organl- been impossible to antions, headed by Dr. Wang mutinled and attacked the officers. lading from Hongkong, to the pro The fourth engineer was severe-posals of the draft Convention on
When Hongkong gets its sen- and sit, dear, for three nights of. Chung-hul, the Nanking Minister
៦ ០. Talpo residenta noto with regret of Justice; Mr. Wa Te-chen, the ly injured in the fracas, but even-bills of lading agreed to at the plane club it will mean buzziness Tattoo."
D well-known former Canton Chief tually the mutineers were over meetings of the International as usual. of Police; and General Hsu Chung powered. The City of Chester put Maritime
tho Brussels in October, 1922.
"Still In Barcelona," says a the absence in the Budget grant to the chi, went on board to greet Mr. back into Dunkirk, and
mutineers were handed over to now being hold In Sun Fo on his return to China, Yeo is
So far as the British Empire Is heading concerning General Prino Estimate of n custody by the Hongkong Pollee,
The distinguished leader aluo the authorities, the master re- concerned, the Imperial Economic de Rivera. Evidently not a secret Anopheles Maternity Home.. though we have been unable to received a number of presumen on placing them with men from Dun- Conference, in November, 1923, re-still.
various that the ascerlain whether he will be the Empress of Canada shortly kirk and proceeding on the voyage.commended
governments of the Empire should! formally charged to-day, after the vessel's arrival. whether the nuthorities will hold the case over until Monday. It is certain, however, that the secution will be formally open ed to-day or Monday, though only preliminary evidence essential to a remand is likely to be given.
important figure of which was Chief Detective Inspector Lage who has been in Shanghai for some time in connexion with the protracted extradition proceed
The document shows that Bringa. 'tain and France have agreed that snall cruisers and constal defence submarines should be excluded from
Imitation.
Meanwhile, there is every indien tion that America will strongly oppose the proposals, and will use her bailting programme as a lever to oblige reconsideration,
Building Lever?
pro-
Router.
Conference
held L
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"Fred"Wo note your objec After a series of round delaya, tions but personally wo think No further detalls are yet to adopt the rules ombodied in the the Tattoo promises to be very Cheung Chau a most suitable Mr. Sun Fo is staying at his hand. The City of Chester is a Convention. The necessary logis.musical. residence in the city, intending to verael, belonging to the Ellerman,lation has now been passed in the leave for Nanking to attend Parly Bucknall Iine, for which the Bank United Kingdom, Australia. and conferences in a day or two.
Some of these
to be
This most of the Colonies and Protec night, motorists
torates. 110 present Bill is prac ought
It is possible that Mr. Sun FoLine are the local agents. will be appointed to the post of particular steamer is not a regular Assistant Chief in the Examina-caller at Hongkong.
It is revealed that Carvalho Yeotion Courts in Nanking for can- was draught a Honkong from dates joining the Civil Service. | Shanghai on an extradition order to Canton, two days ago on a coastal steamer, and immediately sent
Foreign Tour Result.
The Washington correspondent of the New York American declares that he learns from an authorita- tive source that President Coolidge proposes to send to the Britishond French Governments & Note ex-
to Canton. Meanwhile, Interviewed by pressmen, Mr. prossing strong disapproval of the Anglo-Frene proposals and bulica-It appears that negotiations have Sun Fo gave a brief account of been proceeding between the his observations and the results Canton authorities and the Hong of his European and United States kong authorities, by which the ex- tradition difficulties experienced in the Shanghai Provisional Court have been smoothed out, the Canton authorities apparently con senting to hand Yea over British jurisdiction in Hongkong,
ting that the United Staen will con- tinue its building programme of twenty-three 10,000-ton cruisers and that there will be no further scrapping of naval tonnage anti the review of the Washington Cón- vention to be undertaken in 1931.
British Statement,
to
NO MORE PIRACY
GRANTS.
BUT GOVERNMENT WILL RECOGNISE BRAVERY.
tour, He said that prior to the success of the Nationalist Army in the war with the Northern forces, most of the foreign Powers were sceptical about the to. Kuomintang administration, but such doubts had now dispelled to avery, large extent; ns China le united under one Central Govern- ment in Nanking.
Continuing, the Nationalist poll- ician said it was his belief that: China is some 50 or 60 years be- hind England and America, but, with her enormous resources, China may be expected to rank with the European countries in 20 or 30 years' time.
Reconstruction Needs,
PROFESSIONAL GOLF TOURNAMENT.
CHARLES WHITCOMBE WINS BIG PRIZE.
while
៨ ០ Perhaps the chauffeur who
tically a copy of the English Act. charged with
The object of this body of legis driving lation and proposed legislation is Infatuated. twofold. In the first place it aims at securing Empire-wide and Inter. national uniformity in the law ro- Inting to bills of lading. In the second place it is intended to refused to take restrict the right of shipowners to a fare to Kow- Tong contract themselves out of their loon common law liability in respect of thought be ought to go on London, Sept. 21.
carriers' riskA. What is virtually the British The principales of this legisla shanks-mare,
口口 professional match-play cham- tion, and more recently the actual
Some of these pionship was concluded at Stoke rules, have been subjected to ex-
Charles haustive examination by the vari-folk who have to-day, whon Poges Whitcombe, the famous Crows bus interests concerned. Hill player, defeated the fore most of the younger professionals, Henry Cotton (Langlay Park) "by 4 and 2 in the foal of the £1,040
"AT HOME" POSTPONED.
Owing to the Inclement weather, the "At Home" which was to have been held at the Chinese Recreation Club tiis. afternoon has been postponed.
A British Wireless message ro-| ceived this morning commenting on the publication in the. Ameri- can newspaper of what purports to be the text of letter from the French Foreign Office to French Diplomatic Missions, says that! official publication of the com- promise, is necessary emphasise, has been postponed
It is notified in the Gazette that panding the receipt from the other chief Haval Powers, to whom it Government Notification No. 223 had been communicated, of their of the 26th April, 1924, regarding comments upon it, as a possible grants by Government in the event.
Mr. Sun Fo also asserted that basis for discussion at the pre-of the death or disablemont of one of the first duties confronting paratory conference on disarma officers of ships on the Hongkong ro- the Nationalist Government is the ment,
gister by reason of piratica) at-
of the Improvement *** Contrary to rumours continually tacks, is ennestled.
Internal politics of China, for, with the Professional Tournament at Stoke repented in some quarters the full
The cancellation of this Gov-country being stabilized and, all loges. terms and not only a part of them ernment Notification is a neces- the leaders of the Party working
The final was over thirty-six were communicated to the United sary consequence of the recent al in harmony by placing the welfare holes. States, Joptarese and Italian Gov-teration in the Piracy Regulations, of their country before their own feel, George Duncan, Ted Ray Famous players including "Abo" eriments some weeks ago.
but the Government remains ready ends, Kigantle reconstruction It is understood the Japanese to consider and suitably to re-roblems could be solved without and Arthur Havors, were all de-1 the conditions of the trade carried: and Italian Governments have cogniec meritorious service on the almeulty and the dreams of the feated in carlier rounds-Reuter, on by oceun-going steamships.
notified Paris and London that they are disposed to be favourably impressed by the proposals as a basis for discussion, but in the absence of a reply from Washing- ton the publication of the pro- posals has been delayed in accor dance with the usual procedure in such cases.
Broadly stated, Britain favoured calculation by naval categories and the French by the fixation of
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an open mind regardin'g cabarots in Hongkong should close it for repairs.
place in which to be vacciziated.
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Over $38,000
is to be spent
"Rich people make me sick. What is the use of having money if you do not know hoje to enjoy it?"
"Well, what is the use of
knowing how to enjoy it if you haven't got €9"
on the Observa- tory next year. Let's hope they'll give us more for our money,
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If a legless- man Joins our seaplane club at least he'il
have no kick
coming.
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The one good thing about early football practice is that It provides simple explana tion for a black eyo.
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Talking of tins, obsession is Are you a Liberal? If so you must take her every night to the nine points of a bore,..
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Tattoo.
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Cracks have been discovered in the south wall of the Legislative Today's Council Room. One theory is the schoolmaster leads a sedimentary. debates have been a bit too heavy life.". for it..
Matters
Budgetceteras,
of
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"Percy"--You ask how some Detail:-The women manage to look as young at 50.as they did at 20. The anewor is in the preservative.
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Local Variations. The Bill differs from the English Act in the following particulara: Section 5 gives a goneral right of contracting out of the Rules in respect of the earringe of goods by sea from Hong Kong to any place In Kwong Tung or Kwong Sui er to Macno. In the English Act the right is given in respect of the carriage of goods by sea from any port in Great Britain or Northern Ireland to any other port in Great Britain or Northern Ireland or to a port in the Irish Free State.
Junk traffic is excluded by defini tion (d) in Article I of the Rules, In this trade it is not the practice
In some parts of Austraila cab- to issue bills of lading, and, fur-
Smoke To Mr. J. P. Braga:—It is nug- ther; the incidents, of the trade pre-bages cost 3s. 6d. each.
gested that the reason why tempt to secure un grade carried clude and muke undesirable any at- Empire cigars!
bathers plug their cars with From a contemporary:-"Let the cotton-wool is to subdue the sound Government.... consent to the of some of these loud costumes.
DO Article X of the Rules, which opening of a two, three or four- does not appear in the English Act, In-the-morning cabaret
...then Civilisation in Hongkong, is
Shaving be realised.
gives the debtor the right to dis- we will have our seaplane club." advancing. Mr. Sun added that his meetings DEATH OF DR. ALICE D. charge his debt in Hongkong. cur- We can only suppose that after cigarettes and tyres may now be with European and American in-
HICKLING.
rency at the rate of exchange pre-several hours tailspinning for bought at Un Long,
O O whom he
vailing on the day of arrival of the drinke, members would able to has dustrialists, endeavoured to convince that China most needs big capital and scientific experts to solve her re- construction problems, were very gratifying.
part of any person in the face of founder of the Kuomintang Party piratical attacks.
THE SULTAN OF MUSCAT.
preceded the 125
Politicians Meet,
Shanghal, Sept. 21.
A HEAVY LOSS TO THE COLONY.
ercama,
ship at the port of discharge of go up in the air at the least pro- Shanghai la said to be in the
the goods concerned. This is in order to avoid troublesome dispute about exchange. The right to in- sert such a rule is reserved in the draft Convention.
formance of her duties.
vocation!
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hands of burglars, bankors and
brokers. That's nothing. Lots of
Nevertheless, we believe that Hongkong taipans are in the
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SEES NAVAL EXERCISES
Entirely Misinterpreted.
AT PORTSMOUTH,“
harbour tunnels, stadiums, city hands of stenographers. It is with deep regret that we
halls, a Magazine Gap tramway,
What to do with your old razor, Unfortunately, the normal pro-
London, Sept. 21.
have to chroniclo the death of Mrs.
and other odds and ends; have all cedure in this instance has pro- At Portsmouth to-day the Sultan
(Dr.) Alice D. Hickling, M.B.E
been "In the air" at one time or blades--ship 'em to Vladivostok. voked an unprecedented crop of of Muscat embarked in submarine
another. An unofficial meeting of the Na-wife of Mr. C. C. Hickling, of
A headline we may yet live to: Mrs. Hickling was one of the rumours which have entirely mis-1.26, which then performed a num-ionalist leaders was hold at the Messra. Butterfield and Swire,
́0 0. Interpreted the purport, extent ber of diving exercises in Spithead realdence of Mr. Chang Ching-which took place suddenly at the original members of the Board of
"Babies should not be given read "Radio Voice Lures Wife and aim of the compromise. with the destroyers Umpire, and,
Education, to the work on which canned food," Bay's an expert. Away From Home: Husband Sues Thoae The true facts are that progress Truant as escorts and the mine-kiang, the Moderate politician, in Peak Hospital this morning.
Nanking this morning,
The deceased lady, who return-
Judgment, tact and firmness display- seater. at the Preparatory Commission for sweeping sloop Rosa as target in attendance included Marshaled from Home leave last year, had she brought the same qualities of Unless, of course, it is a baby two- Government for Damages."
A gripping heading: "Aber- Disarmament had been for a long ship, at which the Sultan released Chiang Kal-ahek, Messrs. Wu Had been suffering for some time fromed in her medical duties. It was only
ᄆᄆ perlod delayed by differences of a dummy torpedo.
min, Tai Chi-tao, Tan Yen-kal and a serious internal malady, noces at the last meeting of the Board,
To-day's stroy bat from the deen Man Spends Quiet Evening." view on the systems of reckoning After the exercises, the destro Shih-taeng. Problems pertain-altating a serious operation, and held on the 12th instant that her
"Lord Banbury Stouted Down" naval tonnage, the leading pro-yers returned to harbour and the ing to the reconstruction of the although she has passed away letter of resignation was received, belfry:How does one subscribo.
doclared a headline in a contem-, ... ; .tagonists of the opposing views Ross
to Nanking Central Government were rather suddenly, hor intimate and on this occasion glowing to a powder magazine?"
porary. No wonder the poor man. being the British and French re-Southampton, where the Sultan freely discussed. Marshal Li Chat- friends were not altogether unpre-tributes woro pafd to her services
According to a picture in a con- was in a ferment. presentatives.
was landed at a berth in Oceanaum, who was on an excursion to pared for the fatal termination of by the Director of Education, Dr.
temporary, King George is aup Dock.
Tongshan, near Nanking, was her illness. She bore her suffers. W. Teo and Mr. B. Wylie. A visit to a ffnor followed.
notable absentee.
During the war, the late Mra, posed to have "unveiled a tablet "A pure albino snipe was shot:
describing the defent of Lord At Portsmouth the Sultan in-
General Chan Ming-shu of Can-ing with exemplary fortitude, and spected Nelson's Flagship Victory. ion is to give a dinner party to-it.was only her deep sense of duty Hickling served as acting Secre- Nelson at Trafalgar la 1769, I just over the New Territories morrow in honour of Mr. Wu Han- which enabled her to carry on her tary to the Sanitary Board, owing the sec, of the Navy League border, near the village of Wang- British Wireless,
General multifarious duties even when her to the shortage of staff, and in hears this on his way back to the pouling, yesterday Chan in leaving in two or three flness had assumed a serious as 1910 she had conferred upon her Colony, he will probably turn in sald the China Mall of Monday,
pect.
the M.B.E. decoration. She was his bunk. daya for Shanghai, awaiting a
The late Mrs. Hickling first
a valued member of the Midwives' steamer to return to Canton.
came to the Colony as Dr. Alice Board, and also Hon. Serving Sis-
A correspondent asks: "Why
We presume there will be n Official Resigns,
Sibres as a lady doctor to theer of the Order of the Hospital shouldn't cach Colony have play white line on that new motor road Alice Memorial and Amilated of St. John of Jerusalem. Miraing fields, not only on the ground to Mountain Lodge." Shanghal, Sept. 21..
a prominent Mr. Yu Yuch-jen, a well-known Hospitals, where she succeeded in Hickling was also
explanation is that one cannot fall Nanking C. E. C. Commissioner, winning the complete confidence member of the Union Church, of but in the air." We believe the and one of the Chairmon in the of Chinese women patients, many which her father-in-law was for off the ground. Now York, Sept. 21. recent Fifth Kuomintang Plenary of whom will long retain a loving several years the pastor,
"That is the spirit we want to in full to the other Powers affect. S. Navy
It is officially announced by the Conference, has tendered his re- memory of her services. She also The utmost sympathy will be a brief did much work in many other extended to the bereaved husband Department at signation, according to ed, it having been expileit. Washington that the American telegram received here.
Chinese hospitals, including the in the lose of a devoted and most seo more of to-day," gargles a con- With all this talk of a Flying
temporary spirit broad-
Club In the air," we must car I stated by Lord Cushendum, the submarine, S-17 has gone aground
Chinese political circles stato Tang Wah, the Kwong Wah, the worthy helpmeet, and the whole minded and breathing vision. tainly have a little "Elit when Acting Foreign Secretary and at Juan Point, Almirante Bay In that the Portuguese Minister to Chinese public dispensaries and Colony will feel that it has lost such a spirit will give us the Ha the Moths" arrive. other Ministers, that in the event the Panama Canal Zone:
China is expected In Nanking on the Teen Yuk Hospital. In this one of its most able and conscien- of the proposals not proving
Saya a local newspaper head- It is stated that no member of Monday to commence a series of work she served with great energy tious public workers.bour Tunnel." More like to give acceptable to them, the com the crew has been injured and that conferences with the Nationalist and displayed marked qualities in
The funeral takes place this as the hiccupst
ing:"Children's Frocks: Smok promise would automatically cease the vessel is in no danger. Foreign Ministry regarding Treaty overcoming the many dificulties evening, passing the Monument at
Some of our armed robbers seem ing Greatly in Favour." Flaming which she encountered in the per- 15.30 pm Reuter,
revision. (Continued on Page 9.)
to take life philosophically.. youth of course!
probable amounts, divisible accord- ing to the individual desires of the Powers concerned.
As the result of private con-
AGROUND.
versations, the British and French U.S. SUBMARINE RUNS reached a compromise which would enable progress to be resumed in the Preparatory Commission pro- vidod always the other chief naval Powers accepted it.
Communicated in Full.
It was promptly communicated
NO SERIOUS DANGER AND CREW SAFE;
min and other leaders.
afternoon,"
Lucky for him it wasn't just over. the heart.
ពព The Geneva discussions reveal a distressing lack of disarmamomen- tur.