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PNDED 18 -拜歳 號二廿月十英港香 MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1928. 日十初月九
SOCIETY LADIES IN TENNIS RULERS IN THE KWANGSE STILL SWATOW BUREAU
FLYING SMASH.
BOTH SERIOUSLY HURT IN WRECK ON GOLF LINKS.
|COMPOUND FRACTURE.
London, Oct. 21,
The Hon. Mildred Katherine Leith, the half-sister of Lord Burgh, and Miss Cecll O'Brien, the eldest daughter of Sir Timothy | Carew. O'Brien, the well-known | former "Middlesex crickel and 13. were seriously jured in a dying accident yes- Horday,
REVOLT,
FRENCH L. T. A. ACTION AGAINST TAX.
TO CANCEL A WHOLE YEAR'S TOURNAMENT.
AGROUND.
H.M.S. BRUCE AND THE LINAN STANDING BY.
TAIKOO TUG LEAVES.
The .8. Kwangse, of the China Navigation Company, which wont ashore during the wock-end oft Ping Rock, between Amoy and Foochow, is understood to be still
NO HALF MEASURES.fant on the rocks.
Paris, Oct. 21, Though it is considered that
DEFIANT
REFUSAL TO OBEY NANKING.
EXPORT TRADE IS AGAIN HELD UP.
$36 PER ANN SINGLE COPY 10 CENTS
TO-DAY
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
Telephons Central 1866 or 1847, TAKE
33 Wong Nai Chung Rosé ............ Happy Vallay.
GERMAN POLITICAL NANKING SEEKING-
TENSION.
LOAN IN U.S.?
NOTED EXTREMIST TO LEAD PEOPLE'S PARTY.
FASCIST MOVEMENT.
NEW YORK & RECENT INVITATIONS.
HENRY FORD WILL ACCEPT AS-
HON, ADVISER,
Berlin, Oct 21. German
extremists political scored Д far-reaching triumph yesterday when Herr Hugenberg. the owner of the newspaper
wns elected ns SHANGHAI DISQUIET. Chairman of the National People's Parly in succession to Count
Shanghai, Oct. 22. Westarp.
Although, to all appearances, The result of the election is everything in the Nationalist tension of Germany's internal polltient situation, owing to the leaders ara steadily organis
ing the means of putting China's house in order, certain quarters compare the present quiescence with the lull before the storm,
Miss O'Brien is a keen pilote and there is plenty of time for mutters given as Lat:25.10.30 N. and Long, arisen here as a result of the Gov-1 bound to cause greatly increased garden 38 rosy, and the Kuomin
The first intimation of the WAITING ON PEKING! | Lokotanzeiger stranding was received by wire- less in Hongkong yesterday morn
Swalow, Oct. 20.
have ing, the position of the ship being Alarming developments
110.17.30 E.
ernment settlement of the diapule between the merchants and the Surlax Bureau.
It will be remembered that the Government orders were that the Bureau was to be carried on along the lines laid down when it was first instituted, and that the mer- chants who had been on strike were
Later messages showed that No. 1 hold was flooded to three feet,
would probably come off at next high water. In response to a re- quest for assistance, the destroyer flotilla leader H.M.S. Bruce went to the position indicated and the R. Chenan, of the China Naviga- tion Co, also changed her course to stand by the Kwangse,
The Chenan has now left and the tion Company steamer, is standing
"CRASH RECALLED.
Information which reaches us to Oxford day leaves no room for doubt that Lieut. Comdr, Henry C. Macdonald," D.S.C., the Britishi airman who is she was up in a De Havilland Moth to be arranged before the Davis missing on his allempted light over the Mill TU prolf Inks you Cup contest begins again, it is across the Atlantic, is a Hongkone forday, with Miss Leith as a past predicted that French lawn tennis but that the vessel was safe and
nenger, when the machine crashed boy, being the son of the late Major out of control. Donald Macdonald,' of the Hong-An exhibition golf match be kong Volunteer Corps, head of the former fhm of Macdonald and Co. marine surveyors and engineers, and a pusi President of the Hong- kong St. Andrew's Suelety.
His mother, it will be recalled, ju Kowloon in passed away February last, and it is in teresting to recall in fon with her lengthy illness that when it reached a critical stage, her son, Lieut. Comdr. Henry Mac donald, the misssing Hier, started out from England with the intent ion of flying to Hongkong in order!
Connex.
new Chairman's vigorous opposi- tion to the present regime.
Herr Hugenberg, who is the man behind the "Steel Helmet
It is fonred that Marshal Chiang organisation, may be regarded as the leader of the Fascist move Kai-shek in his capacity as Pré- ment in Germany. He is a bitter sident of the National Government Chinese Kerensky, to restart exporting goods at once. opponent of the Republic and the may become a
will suffer a serious set-back as the result of the action of the tween Cyril Tolley and Roger Treasury in deciding that tennis, Wethered, the famous amateurs, and Abe Mitchell and White with other sporting spectacles, combe, held to celebrate the open-comes within the scope of the ing of the course, was in progress Entertainments Tax: at the time of the smash.
Ready assistance
This decision was made in spite 8.5. Linan, another China Navige-Bureau is behaving in a very big attacked strongly the Locarno king. was forth- coming from the large crowd of of the most strenuous opposition When the occupants from. sporting interests, hut legal spectators. were extricated from the wreckage it was revealed that Miss O'Brien actions taken by the leading Paris was suffering from a compound lawn tennis clubs have failed, the fracture of the leg and other in decision of the Treasury being jaries, while Miss Leith was cut about the face and hands.
pheld. This means that a heavy
Both Indies were hurried to hos-tax will be levied on any inter-
to be with her when the end came.pital, and later it was found necca-national tournaments held.
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Held by Arabs.
However, he had the misfortune
to crash near Bigand, on his way here, and was compelled to return to England. In the meantime, his mother had passed away.
It was on this flight that he made a forced descent in the Syrian De- gert and had the unique experience
of a collision between a motori car and a plano. After repairs had been effected, he set out on the re- turn flight, but met with further mishap.
Ha machine was forced to land amony Arabs, and he was taken prisoner by them and held until he managed to smuggle news of his plight to an Italian armoured-car dopot.
✓
sary to amputate one of Miss O'Brien's legs above the knee.... British Wirelena.
AMERICA'S NÁVAL
AMBITIONS.
WANTS FLEET EQUAL TO
ANY OTHER.
Washington, Oct. 21. Saturday next is "Navy 'Day" In
United States and in the
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Not Even Inter-Club Matches.
The French Lawn Tennis Federation Is Indignant and all the big winter tournaments are doomed to disappear from their annual programme. It has not only prohibited all inter-clubi tournaments, but has decided if necessary to relinquish the right to hold the Davis Cup final in France, and will seek a venue abroad, probably in Brussels.
cement
TEST CRICKETER'S MISHAP.
Geary Gets Nose Broken by Rising Ball.
END-OF-MATCH INCIDENT.
London, Oct. 21.
In the very first of the matches to be played by the M.C.C. team in Australia, misfortune has befallen Geary, the English bowler.·'
The match was batween the M.C.C. and West Australia, and in its closing minutes Geary was struck by a rising ball from Halcombe, which broke his nose.
It is expected, however, that Geary will be able to take his place in the Test matchesBritish Wireless.
by the Kwangse, together with H.M.S. Bruco.
A different interpretation of the inw in the interim would of course nexion therewith Mr. Wilbur, Sec-enable the staging of the final retary for the Navy, has issued around in France, and that all hope strong appeal "for the maintenance has not been abandoned is made of an adequate Navy, equal to that evident by the fact that the wooden stands at the Stad Roland Garros of any other Power." Identity Established.
Mr. Wilbur adds:-"We are there being replaced by a The circumstances which make it largest importers in the world, and erection.
It is understood that a Talkoo clear that the missing airman was the second largest exporters. Our
tug is also leaving for the spot 6 son of late Major and Mrs. ocean-going and coastwise trades
The French Lawn Tennis to-day, but at the moment there is are incomparably greater than Macdonald are that his name was
no indication of how long it will be There is ecarcely Federation this afternoon issued a Henry (being known in Hongkong anybody's.
American who would communique setting out the atti-before the Kwangse is likely to be as "arry"), and that he married one
be neriously embarrass- tude it is adopting in protest refloated. daughter of the late Mr. Sam Darnot
racchorae ed well-known
financially if our aen against the disputed tax.' ling, the trainer. A Reuter's telegram re-transportation were interrupted by ceived over the week-end refers to
a hostile feet."--Reuter's Americas the missing flier's wife as a sister Service.
of two famous trainers, S. II. Dar-
ling and Fred Darling, who, of course, are sons of the late Sum Darling.
There can therefore be no room Lieut.-Comdir. for doubting that Macdonald in Hon of the late Born Major and Mrs, Macdonald, in Hongkong, he spent his early years in the Colony, and sub- sequently entered the Navy at Home.
$500,000 GIFT FOR SCHOLARSHIPS.
AN AMERICAN'S SPLENDID SCHEME.
New York, Oct. 21.
The only other son of the Inte A trust fund of $500,000, to per- Major and Mrs. Macdonald was mit foreigners to study Interna- Lkilled whilst engaged in Army-flyfonal law at Harvard University,
ing during the great War.
de Witt Pugsley.
Naval Service.
Ready to Cancet All.
The statement says that all
open tennis tournaments arranged
in France for the winter season 1928-29 will be cancelled,
The covered court championship of France will alone be played, but the public will not be admitted to the games unless the presert situa-| tion is considerably modified by
March 1st, 1929.
FOOLISH PRACTICAL JOKE.
TAIKOO DOCK WORKER
SERIOUSLY BURNT.
for the
The merchants fulfilled their side policy of seeking an understand-due to the surreptitious extremist of the bargain, but the Surtaxing with France. He has also intrigues in Shanghai and Nan- The Chinese nuthorities are the whole Pact and the Versailles Trenty. handed munner about
It remains, however, to be, seen strengthening the precautions. affair. It tally refuses to Lake orders from the Nanking Govern- whether the 5,000,000 Germans, against Communists, and in the being. National big campaign which is ment, or to go back and carry on in who voted the way laid down when the Bureau People's Party, during the last carried out a large quantity of was first started, whilst it also re- Reichstag elections will be pre- inflammatory pamphlets have been fuses to accept the Customs valun.pared to back up Herr Hugenberg discovered in the possession of tion of goods.
in his extremist policy,
labourers and coolles. Meanwhile, it is announced that the ex-Chancellor, Dr. Marx in- tends to resign the chairmanship of the Centre Party in December for reasons of 1-health-Reuter.
J
Bolshevist Activity.
The police in the last two
or
three days have been engaged in a rigorous search in schools and colleges in the vicinity of Woo- Aung-
Will Obey Peking. In fact, the Bureau Insist that goods shall pass through its hands and be examined before even going through the Maritime Customs. The explanation offered for refus ing to obey Government orders is so paltry as to be an insult.In it self. It is that the Bureau was in- stituted by the Peking Government, and that it will therefore nwait or ders from Peking as to changes in VOLUNTEERS TO BE KEPT ON ingly restless at the instigation of
ils administration. The Bureau even hints that as there is now no Government In Peking, it expects to wait a fairly long time before receiving these orders.
the
AUSTRALIAN DOCK STRIKE OVER.
IN SOME CENTRES.
Melbourne, Oct. 21.
In the meantime several light- ning strikes have occurred in the cotton mills and the silk filatures.
It's quite evident that the work- ing classes are becoming incress-
Russiam agents working in under- ground chanels.
Another postal strike is throaten- It is stated that fifteen hundred ed, but the leading officials sto Port Phillip stevedores have np-maintaining their vigilance,--Our
Own Correspondent.
The ship-owners have arranged
The Kerensky Parable..
The merchants are naturally upplied for licences, in arms again, and a meeting was held by the Swatow Chamber of Commerce on Thursday to consider to employ volunteers at Port Mel
bourne and Victoria Dock, but
It will be recalled that M. situation. Representations have again been sent to Nanking elsewhere vessels will be handled Kerensky was the greatest power by members of the Trade Union, in Russia during the fateful days asking for more drastic action.
Meantime, all exports are again thus avoiding possible difficulties of 1917. Though a strong pro- held up. It will be interesting to if volunteers and Unionists begin gressive he had no time for the see what attitude the now Govern working togehter-Router. ment will take up towards these developments, which amount to no- thing short of open insurrection on the part of the Surtax Bureau.
Yet Another Tax..
FIRST TIME SINCE THE WAR.
GERMAN FOOTBALL TEAM IN ENGLAND,
London, Oct. 21. For the first time since the War,
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PUZZLE FOR US: COURT.
extremism of the Bolshevisis, and endeavoured to gain the confidence of the country by lil powers of oratory. Kerensky assumed the Dictatorship of the Russian Re publie in 1917, but ho was swept nway by the Bolshevist coup d'etat in October of of that year.
Meanwhile, the Nationalist leaders In Nanking are authoris- ing the Americanisation of China, or at least, are appointing Ameri-
construction of the country. incan men to assist them in the re-
national finançe. „
It will be recalled that Mr. Henry Ford, Mr. Owen Young of Daves Plan tame, Mr. R. M. Har per, banker, Professor Beligannn, of Columbia University, and Pro- fessor Jeremiah Jenks, of New York University, have been invited Ito become "honorary economic advisors" to assiet the National Government.
As if to add insult to injury, a new tax has been instituted here this week, called the "Parcel Post Tax." This impost is of 21 per cent, on all parcels received here: through the post. If not actually under the control of the Surtax a German football team played
The match took place at Wimble- Sad results recently attended a Bureau, this new tax is fairly close-Londen yesterday and won.
New York's Interpretation. practical joke played by a dock ly related to it, for the taxis depen
dent on the Sortax Bureau to this don between a team representing
A Reuter message from New hand at the Taikoo Dockyard on one of his fellow-workers, The extent that if the Surlux Bureau the Berlin Football Association
drets that in response to the... victim of the joke has been in charge on an article coming by post, and an cleven chosen from clubs York received this morning pre- Appear Abroad,
hospital for the past five weeks, then the Parcel Post Tax Bureau in the lathmain League.
The Germans played an admir-Chinese request, Mr. Henry Ford Unless the Federation's demands his condition being still very also charges-and if the goods are
exempt from the Parcel Post Tax. te one-British Wireless. are met by that date all the tourna- grave, whilst the joker has been exempt from surtax, they are also able game and won by four goals is likely to enter the field of Inter- ments for the Spring, Summer and in police custody ever since.
Parcels coming by post to Autumn will also be cancelled.
After many remands, the autho. Steps will be taken-to-approach-ritlen at the hospital consented Swatow are now liable to 5 per cent. has been established by Mr. Chester foreign nations with a view to the to allow the victim to appear In Customs duty, 21⁄2-per.cent. aurtax, Davis Cup final rounds, at present Court to give evidence, and th and 22 per cent. parcel post tax It provides for sixty scholarships, to be played in France, being play- youth was brought before Mr.making a total of 10 per cent. Lieut. Comdr. Henry C. Mac-one for each hation of the world and in one of their countries.-R. E.
Lindsell this morning Actually, they come to about 15 per when he stated that he and cent. for foreigners and possibly donald resigned from the Navy in the British Dominions, along the Reuter,
defendant were quite friendly and even much more to Chinese. August, 1925, and Agures at pre-lines of the Rhodes Scholarships.
A'Costly Cont. sent on the Emergency List of the The beneficiaries will be appoint-
that there was no 1-feeling be. tween them. They both worked Royal Navy. He entered used by their Foreign Ministers and in
at the dock and sometimes slept cadet at Osborne in September, the British Dominions by the Prime
Ministers. Reuter's
In the street fogather. 1909, from Dulwich College, and went to sea as midshipman of the Service. cruiser Hampshire in May, 1914. From March, 1915, he served in the new battleship Warsnite, which was in the thick of the fighting at Jut- land, especially when her steering gear jammed. In November, 1916, he was promoted to sub-lieutenant, and appointed to submarines, in which he served during the 'remain- -der of the War, being promoted The Alfoutenant from May, 1918.
AD.S.C. was conferred on him. In January, 1920, at which time he
training in coastal motor-boats, and afterwards had command of one of
American
GREYHOUND RACING FIASCO.
BERLIN VENTURE'S ERRORS OF OMISSION.
Berlin, Oct 21, Greyhound racing which started
the 'courses.
CABIN BOY FINED $15,000.
NINE MONTHS ALTERNATIVE
FOR OPIUM SMUGGLER.
POSITION OF ADOPTED CHINESE BOY.
Mr. Ford, the only one of these Washington, Oct. 15.
fivo prominent American financiers The United States Supreme and economists officially invited to Court to-day refused to decide the advise on the Nanking reconstruc- question of whether a Chinese boy tion schemes, to be interviewal, adopted by an American citizen of says he has not yet received the American descent was entitled to invitation, but he will accept "If enter the country.
A member of the English com- munity here received a Burberry One night, the complainant was coat from Home this week, Values awakened by something burning at $80, and had to pay $12 in taxes on his legs. Ie found later that on its arrival-A 15 per cent. taut was some lighted joss-sticks Where the extra 5 per cent. was put which he thinks the defendant on cannot be said, but this incident must have placed there. A few serves as an illustration of the ex- days later, he retaliated by play-tremely unsatisfactory, state of af- Ing the same joke on the defen- fairs here with regard to tax nd-pretation of the law, the boy is not
This form of practical ministration. Our Own Correspon entitled to enter. joke went on several times, the dent.. youths victimlaing each other in turn.
A Chinese employed as a cabin boy to the Chief Officer of the Taiming, was charged before Mr. R. E.Lindsell at the Central Police dant. Court to-day, with the possession of 200 tacla fo Wuchow opium.
Mr. W. D. Owen, appearing for the defendant, asked for leniency
was the man's first offence. His Worship after being told
On September 14, the complain- ant woko un to find that Rome- thing burning had been tied to
had returned to general service on two tracks in Berlin in the a In the battleship Resolution. In Spring have been a completo October, 1922, he was selected for failure, chiefly owing to the how in the capacity in which he his leg. He tried to shake it off, fallure of the organisers to obtain was employed, the defendant had hut without success. He noticed a locker in the Chlef Oleor's awoke, and from that. he sur concession to put totalisators on been able to conceal the oplum in the defendant near him when ho cabin, observed that it was hardly mised that defendant must have a case for lenteney. It sounded been responsible. As a result of smuggling of a valuable consign- ever since. more like a case of dollberate Injuries he had been in hospital ment of oplum
After hearing the evidence, his Worship remanded the defendant for another weak, remarking that he could not deal with the de- fendant until the doctor had pro- nounced the complainant out of
those craft at Gosport, until the base there closed down on the
The result was, of course, that ground of economy in the summer
the public was unable to bet, and of 1025.
An Intrepid airman, Lieut.- the races lacked interest after the Comdr. Macdonald started out on initial thrill had been exhausted.
The company which started the "a solo flight across the Atlantic
on the evening of Wednesday last, dog-racing has now ceased to using a small Moth machine. No operate, and its 120 valuable groy- definite news has been heard of hounds which were imparted from him sincs, and it is feared that he England have been given away to)
farmers-Reuter. has lost his life.
Mr. Lindsell: Bomebody gave him away, I suppose?
A Revenue Officer: Yes, on in- formation, your Worship.
A fine of $15,000, or nine months' hard labour, was infileted. danger. -
P.W.D. OFFICIAL ROBBED.
According to the present interit appears all right?”
KOWLOON MURDER.
GRIM DISCOVERY NEAR HOSPITAL
Criminal Investigation Depart ment officials are working on a
These invitations, says Router, coupled with the appointment of American engineers by the Nation- alists (as reported in the Telegraph on Friday) are believed In Wall Street to indicate that Nanking will shortly seek a loan in tho Amerian market.
Japan Withdraws Troops.
Tientsin, Oct. 21. Three battalions of Japanese
CONCERTINA AMONG THE LOSSES,
murder case which has been troops have been withdrawn on in- Thieves broke into the residence brought to light by the discovery structions from Tokyo. It is learn
than will be, withdrawn shortly the Public Works Department at Chinese at Kowloon City: of Mr. C. J. Tacchi, an official of of the dead body of an unknowned that the British troops at Tong- Pokfulum Road during his.ab-The body was found yesterday Nam Chung Pao, sonce yesterday, and stole from his morning in a field off Argyll Street bedroom a concertina, a telescope with multiple injuries which sug
to death with a blunt weapon. and money and jewellery, to the gested that the man had been done value of $94.
Entry was effected by forcing a window, the panes of which were
broken.
The spot where the man finally fell is near the entrance to the Kowloon Hospital,
New Appointments.
4.
Shanghai, Oct. 21. Owing to his important appoint ment In the National Government General Ho Ying-ching, the chief (Continued on Paye’14.)