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EARLY MORNING
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KOWLOON CITY AFFAIR
ENGLISHMAN AS VAGRANT,
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1928.
TELLS STORY OF SEARCH FOR FRIENDS.
REMANDED IN COURT.
A report has been made to the John Roberts, an Englishman, police by Wan Kwal, a contractor, appeared this morning before of No. 3, Kal Yan Road, Kowloon Major C. Willson on a charge of City, to the effect that three armed vagrancy. He denied the charge. men entered His house at 4.10 this
Giving evidence, Sub-Inspector morning, and, after holding up the Elston stated that the defendant Inmates, made away with money was handed over to him at 9 o'clock and jewellery valued at $862.50.
According to the report, the con. this morning by the Inspector in tractor was awakened by the sound charge at the Central Police of a door being forced open. Ho Station, who informed witness that aaw one man entering his room the defendant had presented him and two others following behind. self at the charge room at mid- The Arst man was observed to be night and had asked for a bed. carrying a dagger, the second an Witness questioned defendant iron bar, and the third a revolver. and learned that the latter was The Intruders ordered the con unemployed and had only $1.10 in tractor to keep still, but, instead his possession. He therefore ($25 for thirty Tifin Tickets can be had at the Once of the of complying, he shouted for help. charged him with vagrancy. De from fendant had mentioned that he
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· REFUGEES" ENCOURGED BY PRINCE'S SUCCESS.
APPEALS TO COURT.
Berlin, Nov. 7. Encouraged by the success of the action brought by Prince Alox- ander Cetromanitz to prevent the sale of art treasures which were taken illegally, by Bolshevista from palaces and homes in Rus- sta, other Russian refugees to-day sought to obtain an injunction from the Berlin Court to prevent the auction of over one hundred objects which they claim as their
property.
In accordance with yesterday's ruling of the Supreme Court, all the objects have now been with- drawn from auction, excepting certain articles which have al ready been sold. These Intter in- Beauharnais, bought by an Eng- Gobelin tapestries which had been sold for £5,000.
The MAN with the bar then struck him
on had friends in Hongkong include furniture made for Eugen the head, after which
the Gordon Road, but when he called robbers bound and gagged him and there last night, he found his his two fakis, who were in the friends had moved. house with him at the time.
lish dealer for £3,000,
and six
The auctioneers have deposited Court, pending the final decision after the Supreme Court has fully. investigated the rights of owner-
ship.
The sules at auction alrendy concluded realised over £100,000. -Reuter
After the robbers had been In a statement to his Worship, twenty minutes in the house; thov the defendant claimed that he the money received for these, in were disturbed by the contractor's landed in Hongkong from Macao at neighbours, who knocked at the 6 o'clock Inst night. He went to door. The thieves made their Gordon Road to the house of a escape through a back door, taking friend, where he had arranged by with them the money and jewellery letter to stay. On arrival, le found that his friends had moved mentioned above.
out and, after depositing his lug- gage at the Bay View Station, ho "knocked around" Wanchai and other places, but could not find a place to stay. Eventually be arrived at tho Central Police Station, where he asked for night's lodging, "with this result."
SIR HUGH CLIFFORD.
DISCUSSING MILITARY
CONTRIBUTION,
London, Oct. 31. Sir Hugh Clifford, Governor of the Straits Settlements, will sail for Singapore on the Morea November 30. It is understood that he is remaining at Home for house..
His Worship enquired of défen- ondant why he did not try to get a
night's lodging at some boarding)
a month longer than was original-. The defendant replied that he ly intended in order to discuss got into difficulties over the 1925 the question of the Straits Set-strike, and, as a consequence, owed Proprietress. tlements Military Contribution with money both at the Seamen's Insti-
and the Imperial Government-Straits tute
the Sailors' Ilome. Times.
"They would not give me a place there," said Roberts.
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GENERAL YANG SEN. by the Magistrate, Roberts claimed In answer to another question
that he had friends in Hongkong.
His Worship granted a remand for twenty-four hours to enable
ARREST DECREE NOW.
CANCELLED.
Nanking, Nov. 7. Yesterday the National Govern- ment announced, the cancellation
Roberts to find his friends,
The defendant promised to ro- port himself to the police if he fail.
of ita former decree for the ared to find his friende, rest of the the Szechuan General, Yang Sen, who figured'in the Wan- hsten incident of September, 1926,
NEW PHASE IN WIRELESS.
U.S. PROGRAMME FOR HOME LISTENERS.
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NAVAL COMPROMISE FIASCO.
THE KUOMINTANG QUARREL.
PROSPECTS OF AN EARLY SETTLEMENT.
Nanking, Nov. 7. There are prospects of an early settlement of the dispute between the Central Kuomintang and the Special Nanking City Kuomintang officials.
Yesterday, Marahal Chiang Kai- shek called all the officials of the office, explaining to them in detail Nanking City Kuomintang to hin why the Central Party had to adopt the unusual method of electing half of the delegatos for the coming Third Nation Congress
Kuomintang Marshal
Chiang assured the City Kuomin- tang members that ho would guarantee that fairness should dominate the coming election.
to
A mass meeting of Kuomintang |followers at Nanking took place
Inter and decided
appear Lo tho Nanking Government to issue an order asking the officials of the City Kuomintang to cancel their resignations.
(Continued from Page 1.) negotiations liad been actually to]. set back the cause of disarmament. Two important events in the de- They had done nothing of the sort. velopment of wireless broadcasting What they had done, and ho did not will take place shortly, if the Bri- wish to minimise the regret which tish Broadcasting Corporation la he felt, was to put us back in exact- able to carry out its planu says n'fly the same position as though we Home Correspondent.
had not made these proposals for a They will be the first broadcast compromise at all. It meant that of still pictures, and the inclusion we had to find some other way; of relayed brondcasts from America | He had been naked, what in the regular Brithali programmes, were our commitments? He could In addition, it is probable that not state too emphatically that there a decision of the utmost importance were no commitments. There never will shortly be made by the Board had been. But nothing had been of the Corporation, for I under- done to disturb the warm and stand that it is meeting to consider friendly feeling which we had-to- the report of its engineers on a de-wards the French, even although monstration they attended recently this particular attempt to agree up af the Baird televisor-the ap on the principles of disarmament paratus for broadcasting moving had unfortunately not been success- pictures.
ful.
years.
soon.
wore
Must be Give and Take,,,
FRENCH POLITICAL
CRISIS.
NEW CABINET NOT YET FORMED.
.
Paria, Nov. 7. It is generally believed that President Doumergue will finally ask M. Poincare to form a now Cabinet.
If the latter declines, it seema that M. Barthou or M. Briand will be appointed. The designation is not expected until after Friday.
Havas.
CHIANG'S MILITARY
TOUR,
LEAVING TO-DAY ON LONG TRIP.
Shanghai, Nov. 8. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek is to leave to-day on his tour of troop inspection which will last for three weeks.
As he will concern himself with
The attainment of sufficient re- Hability in the reception and re- laying of American broadcasts for
On the question of military re Inclusion in B.B.C. programmes, servists, added Lord Cushendun, it issued days and sometimes weeks would be necessary, before very in advance of the event, is an end jong, for the Government to give to which the Corporation's en- Instructions to their representatives gineers have been work for several at Geneva. Those instructions had not yet been even considered but we "Enormous Strides,"
under no obligations. We The Corporation, however, excould, if we liked, insist upon our pects even
more reliable results own view regarding military re- servists, but he did not suggest we "Fading and distortion remain were likely to do so because he be two great difficulties in the way of lieved it would be absolutely futile. Transatlantic broadcasting on short Although the other view was that military education, the Marshal wave lengths," he said. "Within without including reservists, dis will be accompanied by Mr. Tai the last two years enormous strides armament must be ineffective the Cho-tau-Nam Chung Pao. have beeh made by the experimental Continent. nations believed they receiving station at Tarling, near could carry out a large measure of Chelmsford, though the required disarmament by totally, different degree of reliability has not yet methods. It was no use, going to been attained.
Geneva, to surrender one's own "As Poon as this reliability has point of view and consent to give been achieved American broadcasts as well as take. He repeated that will be Included in the English pro-although this particular failure grammes whenever they are judged had not given any definite set back to be of greator Interest to the to the cause of disarmament he' public than the items we had plan- agreed that it was very disappoint-
New York, Nov. 7. ned. Programmo value will be the ing and that it had not given it a A banking syndicate has ar- very large fillip. If it had succeed-ranged a $12,000,000 loan to the The broadcasting of still pictures,ed it would have given a very con-Ruhr Gas Corporation to finance will take place from 5XX station at siderable fillip to the cause of die the construction of the largest Daventry. It will be continued be- armament. We must not be dispipe-line system In the world for tween 2 p.m. and 2.15 p.m. every day couraged, but must try and find the distribution of coke oven, gas. from Tuesday to Saturday each come other mode of approach to a Reuter's American Service............. week. A portrait of the King is to general agreement.
test,"
be selected to Inaugurate the ser- Lord Thomson withdrew his mo vico.
tion, and the House adjourned.
Reuter and British Wireless,
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Bhanghai, Nov. 7.
Mr. Yada, the Japanese Consul-
It will not be possible for the firat broadcast pictures to be re- ceived by the public in their homes, since there is not yet a sufficient'
At a meeting of the Medical 80- General at Shanghai, In the com number of seta in the country. Ar rangements have been made by eiety of the Hongkong University, pany of two high Japanese officials Wireless Pictures, Ltd., the makers to be held in the Union Assembly and the Japanese Consul at Nan- of the machine, for demonstration Room on Wednesday next at 5.16 king, left here this evening by sets to be supplied to principal p.m. Dr. M. O. Pister, will read rail for the Nationallet capital to stores and dealers so that as many. A paper on the subject continue his Informal negotiations Anaesthoola." Pro- with Dr. G. T. Wang on outstand- as possible of the public may see of Local
fessor Digby will take the chair.
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