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FOCEDED 1901 AAR WEMA+AF SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1928. -+-+ SINDLE COPY 100INTA
NO APPRECIABLE MURDERED BRIDE'S MASKED WORKMEN BRITISH_ ́OFFICER'S SWATOW CENSUS
CHANGE.
HIS MAJESTY SPENDS QUIET DAY.
VERY SLOW BUT FAVOURABLE PROGRESS.
DISAPPEARANCE.
CARRIED OUT.
BODY EXHUMED.
AT HOLBORN.
BEING SHIPPED TO HONGKONG FOR RE-INTERMENT.
LIEUT. SCOTT, R.N., STILL
EXPLOSION DANGER AT LAST AVERTED.
NOT TRACED.
JAPANESE OBJECTION
RESENTED.
MIAO CRIME RECALLED.
London, Dec. 21.
A mystery was scented when it was loarned to-day that the body of Mrs. Wai Sheung Yi Mino, the murdered bride of Chung-yi Mino,
GAS COMPANY BLAMES THE FOST OFFICE,
GREATER CONFIDENCE. had been exhumed, but enquiries GOVERNMENT INQUIRY
London, Dec, 21.
LITTLE HOPE HELD,
Wireless messages from Shang-A NEW BOYCOTT COMMITTEE
hat state that there is now little hope of Surgeon Lieutenant H. J. Scott, M.B., R.N., of H.M.S. Cricket, being found alive.
ESTABLISHED.
The missing offer was last KUOMINTANG REFORM. Reen on Friday, December 14, when he was one of a party at the Palace Cafe in the French
THE SILVER ANNIVERSARY BUICK
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Bulls and
Inners
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From the Office Butts.
Mr. Braga doesn't like the Yaumati squatters. These por- dona'are understood to reaniftro cate.
☐ ☐ What we' don't know costs uB 2; lot of money.
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This week:-Every day le à. "Reader:"We can only sup- Chooseday.
pose that the real reason why foundation stones are laid is that it would be difficult to hang them. ☐ ☐ Judging from a recent telegram the old-fashioned one-man band has its counterpart in Mussolini..
As the H.K.T.C. digger aald to, the P.W.D. digger:-"it you know If it's true that "Buildlows spring of a better 'ole go to it!"
mushroomus"—somebody up, like must have dropped a packet of
From the verandah of a local Concession. He presumably left A census was recently taken in seeds outside the A.P.C. Building! boarding house Macao, can be seen
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on a clear day. It is untrue, kow- there alone at about four o'clock the port, the returns for which are
If all the cumshaw cigars that ever, that the landlady makes an returning to his ship, in the morning, saying that he was not yet to hand. The rapid in-
crease in the population would are given this week were laid end extra charge for foreign scenery, · Since that time, he has not been make the returns extremely in to end across the Saham Desert, seen, and although the Captain of teresting if they could be relied many would be going about sing- the Cricket offered a reward, no upon. There was, however, con- Ing.
siderable suspicion among the such havoc in the district yester-Information regarding Lieutenant day.
Scott's whereabouts has been re- people as to the purpose of the investigation, and a general bo- After the main had been seated ceived.
lief that the authorities have ulterior motives for making it.
London, Dec. 21. Masker workmen after almost superhuman efforts this afternoon ing a plain oak collin and by pay- as main beneath the road in High from a pauper's grave by provid-succeeded in sealing up the great ing for the grave.
Street, Holborn, from which gas Chung-yi, Mino paid the extreme had been pouring in great volumes penalty for his crime at Manches-since the explosions which created ter a fortnight ago,
revealed that the exhumation was carried out by Mr. Walter Swin- No bulletin was issued this burne, who was largely instru- afternoon regarding the King, tental in saving the dead woman belag intimated that nu further statement would be given out until this evening. This is regarded-as An Indiention that the Khug cou- tinues to minke good, if slow, porn- greas and that His Majesty's medical advisors are satisfied with the course of events,
This morning's balletin issued at 11.30 am, signed by three doctors stated:
The King had restful night. There is no appreciable change to be noted.
At 8:15 pm. to-day, the follow
issued from ing bulletin was Buckingham Palace:
"The King has had a quiet day.
The local and general conditions “ahore a very slow though favourable course."" To-night was the first time since 1 King's ness developed seriously that an air of confidence has been noticeable at the Palace.
Slow Progress,
The progress the King has been making has been very slow indeed, aft some little time must clupse before complete confidence can be
felt.
It is, however, certain. that the grave anxiety of the past fortnight has now been allayed to a con- siderable extent.
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The favourable turn in the King's condition, coming as it has done on the eve of Christmastide has relieved puble anxiety and created a more cheerful outlook generally.
Prince George and Miners, Prince George, the
King's youngest you, arrived at South- ampton to-day from New York in the Cunard liner Berengaria.
He was greeted by the Mayor of Southampton, who expressed the fervent hope that is Majesty would he speedily restored-to com- plete health.
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It is evident that the friends of woman in Hong- the murdered kong have made representations to the authorities in connexion with the disposal of the body as the coffin was placed in a lead shell, which enclosed another nuk The authorities had not dared to coffin and sent from Keswick to put them out before as the flames Birkenhead for shipment to long-acted as aafety valve by con-
suming the excaping gas.
long with a view to re-intermeni.
It will be recalled that the tor- rible crime occurred in 'The Cuni-
berland Lake District on June 19th, when Dr. Chung-yi Miao and his bride were on their honey moon. The couple went out to gether, and Minu returned alone, his wife being found later in the day strangled with window cords. -leuter.
DANGER TO BRITISH
· LEGATION.
PLIGHT IN EVENT OF FRESH
AFGHAN OUTBREAK.
BRIGANDS REPULSED.
London, Dec. 21. - Further light is thrown on the recent serious disturbances la Afghanistan, particularly in re- ference to Kabul, by the Afglian Legation in London, which appar- ently is keeping in close touch with the situation by wireless, via Moscow.
It is now stated that the tribes- wilb whom Sir Francis
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Humphries, the British Minister, conversed last week end, and who assured the British Minister that the British Legation was in no danger, were well armed robbers, numbering at least 7,000 disguised as Afghan troops.
This fat explains the report that part of the army had revolt-
it was revealed that a cake made in honour of the Prince's 20th birthday, celebrated on board the Berengaria yesterday was auctioned. ed and re-auctioned and then stib- divided into minute pieces, the total amount replised being £1,067, which will be devoted to the Lord Mayor's Fund on behalf of the dis tressed miners.
Prince Reaches London,
The birthday cake was a huge me, beautifully ornamente! made specially for the occasion by the confectioner of the Berengaria. Prince George reached London this evening and proceeded at once to Buckingham Palace.
Council of State Meets.
London, Dec. 21.
The Council of Slate met at
The robber army was later com plotely routed by the Government troops, and driven, hack into the hills to the north of Kabul.
up, the huge belches of Oame A theory that he may have which had been spouting up in fallen Into the Whangpoo owing the centre of The road for thirtyto the Cricket being moored on the houra were put out.
far alde of two other naval vessels, necessitating clambering over two gang planks, has been scouted by the naval authorities, who point out that a strict guard is kept aboard each ship. Gravest Danger Passed,
Messages received to-day state Experts and officials are of opi-that he may have beon taken into nion that although some risk of the native city or may have fallen further explosion still exists, the overboard while returning to his greater danger has now passed.
Policemen, fremen, ambulance men and gas officials are still on explosions guard lest further
should occur.
The one great point which bus yet to be decided is the primary cause of the explosions. TECHKINATEURTZIA) (01:135-003:00: FPERGOLOR:3197) MALEZJARRETTE
YANGTSZE RIVER MINED.
Progress of the War in Szechuan.
A NEW ALIGNMENT.
Naval wireless messages received in Hongkong to-day from Chungking state that a notification has been given ta the Consuls that the river has been mined.
It appears that General Yang Son is on the side of General Li Hsiang and that so far the latter has been sue- cessful Lo Tsu-chow being defeated.
The boycott of British ship- ping at Ichang continúes,
There is no change in the situation at lankow, where police of the Special Adminis- frative District continue to the Bankow Club' guard against possible action by officials of the Wine Barent.
ship.
The military and civil police are still continuing their search for the missing officer.
One of the last hope entertain- ed was occasioned by a report that Lieut. Scott was very friendly with officers of the .s. Chinkiang, and might have aniled for Hong- A wireless kong by neeldent. mesange from H.M.S. Cornwall to the steamer, however, dispelled this theory.
NEW PRISON RULES.
FINGER-PRINTS AND SEN. TENCE REMISSIONS.
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Hongkong Prisou Regulations have heen amended as follows:
By the rescission of rule 233 and the aubstitution therefore of the following rule: "Such measure ments, finger-prints, marks, and particulars of
any kind, shall
be taken, on admission or at any other time, as the Superintendent
shall direct."
Swatow, Dec. 18.
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"Pussyfool" Johnson is due to arrive in Shanghai on Christmas Eve.. Well, he won't find the The O.B.I. in hereby prosentad to the young Kowloon matron, people in tow spirits, anyhow. who, in answer ton dunning letter, wrote and said that such corros- "Jack:"Yes, the waits will be pondence much cense as her abroad in Kowloon this Christmas- No, we have not heard husband did not approve of her tide. receiving letters from strange whether it is possible to lasura
against this sort of thing.
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Many old care Ko-to Canton. Lots of them, however, don't
men.
On the day selected everyone was required to keep to his house for a period of two hours, and this was largely adhered to. There was an unusual quietness in the
The worst streets during the time that the re- turna were being collected. Boats
shipping rates in Chinese and trains on the previous day and on the morning of the census
crowded with doubtful waters are the were to heal a temporary retreat, fear- je characters who thought, it wiser pi-rates. ing that they might be one of the objectives of the returns.
Japanese Objection.
Quite a num- ber of insular people now a lo the Peninsula,
:Q D One of the ironies of life to
In connexion with the census it appears that a return of foreign residents and their property was
had only re- a motorist is to required. As one cently been made, the Japaneno find any num Consul, at the request of his ber of available nationals, protested against the parking spaces unnecessary duplication of busi- the day after he ness, and has not supplied the re-
has rented quired information. The papers denounce his interference with garage, the internal government of the country, as they call it, and oven demand his recall!
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He: "It's getting late.. 'I supposo I had better stop sing ing on account of the neigh- bours."
Ske: "Carry on, dear. They never consider us when their dog howls late at night,
go at all.
O D Somehow we, can't help thinking of him un Santa Claus.
O D If you told
the average man that last-
ing peace was
In sight for
South America,
ho probably would
Bolivia.
not
០២. "What atrikes me most about the Englishman," anys n New York writor. "la his orderliness, hit discipline, his readiness to obey
The actuality of Father Christmas is only realised when The municipal branch of the Santa claws the spare cash.
DD now Kuomintang las
been
Com-
There is no truth in the rumour the law. . . . constructed and the new
The that the Society for Prevention of Englishman, my mittee is being elected. branch was ordered some months Cruelty to Road Diggers, has been marries young.
to a given permission to hold its annual age to bring its netivities close, and since then has been dinner in the new footpath hostel
of Commis near the A.P.C. Building, under the control sioners appointed from Canton.
The Chinese who were arrested These carried re-registration of members, which proceeded rather for betting with oranges, and were haltingly and finished with a discharged, gave the police the
By the addition to rule 328 of membership of some two thousand, pp. the following paragraph:-"Upon not a large number for the port. release of any prisoner by reason
f remission earned by him, hla sentence or cumlative sentences, as the case may be, shall be deem- ed to have expired."
ITALIAN GENERAL'S
DEATH.
MARSIJÁL CADORNA PASSES AWAY.
New Boycott Committee.
D C A whistling buoy, a danger to navigation, is reportal by the
Tat, tut
The average dear Watson,
0:0 From an erudite contemporary: -"Private tullion given in modern balloon dancing.", Sultable for air balls!
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Many local doctors are making their mark In this Colony to-day. Vaccination marks.
The main public activity of the Harbour Offee. Buoys will be rending-20,000 Leagues Under
Commissioners has been in con- nexion with the Japanese hoycott. This, after some delay, was taken out of the hands of the Chamber of Commerce, and reconstituted under a wider committee,
Heard Everywhere:-"That will do for the present."
Judging from the number of
MacWhirter is going in for deep
the Sen.
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Carol-singers are being Inocu- Jated against dog-lifle.
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Taipo Urban Council Is sending
a Christmas Box to the person
The Boycott Committee has been telephone calls we have received prosecuting two of its members during the past week and the responsible for plasting rees at for accepting bribes from mer-anxiety displayed, we reckon that most of the blind corners on the chants to pass goods, and they are at least 47 residents of the Colony Taipo Road. Otherwise, crime in on the track of an official at must have been members of the the district is normal,
the Belccted committee which Theng-haf who ran a cargo
English Test Cricket Team. methylated spirits from Japan, activities. though but whose
Hongkong criminals don't like CJD-vious ways. shielded by his own poifce, were
012266319992006:05 INFLATABLETALEIDOMEKANI, Afghan guards at the British The Gas Company emphatically Legation amount to only half a repudiate responsibility, and a doze police for protection, and keen controversy is already de-
Rome, Dec. 21. the premises are incapable of developing. The Company not mere-
The death is announced of fence against an organised force. ty disavow liability, but declare The other Legations are similarly that they intend to send the Posi-Marshal Count Luigi Cadorna, who plared, but they are in easy reach master-General big bill for was Commander-in-Chief of the interrupted by the military.
of the centre of the city, Reuter. | damages.
NEW YORK BANKING
AFFILIATION.
Buckingham Palace this morning. TWO LEADING INSTITUTION
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CO-OPERATE,
All six Counsellors of State, namely, the Queen, Prince of Wales, Duke of York, Mr. Baldwin, the
New York, Dec. 21. Archbishop of Canterbury, and Lord
Banking resources totalling The Hailsham, were present.. Council Insted less than half-an- nearly $600,000,000 will be united hour. Sir Wm. Joynson-Hicks and hy the affiliation of two leading Sir Maurice Hankey (Clerk of New York banking Institutions
namely, the Bank of Manhattan Council) were also present.
The Council transseted routine Company and the International business and settled certain niat- Acceptance Bank, Incorporated. ters arising from the adjournment of Parliament,
P. O. Tunnell the Origin?
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of
Italias Armies in the early part
A big athletic meeting is being of the Great War,
His death was prematurely re-arranged for Dec, 24 and 25, and
NEW LONG-DISTANCE TELEPHONE.
taking place. I understand that heit is proposed that girl and boy students run on equal terms against each other."
at
Standardising Dollar.
An order is issued announcing the end of the system of weighing dollars as from the end of the
The Gas Company contend that ported on the 18th instant, a sub-preliminary contests are already the first explosion occurred in an scquent message saying that old tunnel used to carry Post was lying in a grave condition Office cables. This they allege Cordighera.--Router. damaged the gas mains and ccasioned the subsequent havoc,
Postul oficials decline to make any statement in this connexion.
In explanation of the Gas Com- official to- pany's allegation, an day stated that the trouble began in a duct conveying telegraph cables of the Post Office, where electrical work was in progress. He expressed the opinion that the first explosion was due to bitumen on the electrical cables.
ARGENTINE BAND HEARD IN BERLIN.
Berlin, Dec. 21. A direct telephone service be was opened to the public to-day.
A band in Buenos Aires, playing the German National Anthem, was easily heard here.--Reuter.
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Take Your Choice:- "Thank you!" "Thank you so much!" "Just what I wanted!" "Oh, but really, you shouldn't
have!"
"Where did you get it?" "How did you think of it?" "O-o-oh, but darling?"
"I'm Is that all 1"
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"Jane:"There's nothing like a
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year. This is presumably an at-cold for bringing a man to his tempt to standardise the dollar, sneeze. and perhaps preliminary to the issue of new ones. But unless the Judging by some of theso acreen Government can establish a new romances, one can fall in love in issue on a Hound basis, it is Paris with great Fazility, difficult to ace how any ordor of
The latter is not merging, but gas generated by the insulation tween Berlin and Buenos Aires the Government can make mer-
will co-operate by an exchange of
The Queen also presided over stock-Reuter's American Service,
a Privy Council, which Lord
Cramer (the Lord Chamberlain)
and Mr, Guinness
(Minister of
Agriculture also, attended.
Record of Speech,
Board of Trade Inquiry, It is understood that a Govern- mont Inquiry will be held to establish CHRISTMAS MAIL.
tho responsibility. Reuter and British Wireless.
Later. The Board of Tride has issued- statement announcing that an enquiry will be held into the cause the Holborn cxplosions."
By special permission of the DELAYED BY BAD WEATHEŃ King, the Columbia Graphophone
A wireless message has been Company is issuing for private received that the P. and O... of circulation a gramophone record lynn which is bringing the Reuter.
London, Dec. 210 of His Majesty's last public ut Christmas mall from Home, and
Following a police warning, terance before his illness, namely
*W38 due hare early to-morrow his speech on opening the new morning, has been delayed by bad residents last evening as a precau Tyna bridge. The record will be weather, and will not arrive until tion evacuated the Holborn explo Treserved in the British Museum. p.m., leaving the next day at slon area in view of the danger of
(Continued on Pags 18.) Reuter.
4 p.m.
DIPLOMATIC CHANGE.
Oslo, Dec. 21 M. Gade, the Norwegian Minister to Brazil, has rotired. He will be bucceeded by M. Michelot, Minfe- let for China and Japan.-Reuter,
MR, HOOVER'S TOUR
Rio de Janeiro, Dec. 21. Mr. Hoover has arrived here Reuter's American Service..
Great words of little wives:~~ "My husband is like tonsilitis; he gives me a pain in the neck."
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A current announcement rends The "Why Safflors Go Wrong." extra letter, of course, has nothing · to do with the solution.
The English cricketers don't weem to have been finding these matches much of a Test.
O O "America has a big role to play, in the new Chik," Kays a news- paper. Including the task of in- during them to eat chop suey, we suppose.
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A tribe of people who creep about furtively and rarely show themselves in broad daylight has been dincovered by an explorer,
likely..
CO The "Iluge Dam Planned in Escaped football referees, most chants take dollars at their face United States" in a Telegraph value.
At present, there is not much headline has, of course, no refer Turkey's former ruler was the
enee to the remarks of the wets
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weighing in retail business, but
haps explains why his successor ́ some dollars, notably the Yuanre the Prohibition appropriation. sick man of Europe. This per Shib-kai fosue, go better than
☐ ☐ Yet another supplementary vote for the C.S.O. building has been passed. Watch it grow!
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The Post refers to Edna Best's wants some of the Dead Sea salts. others and in the port they must marriage as "Stage Wedding in
It was shown at the Finance bo unchopped. Up country a
Committee meeting this week that nifty dresser. variety of conditions obtain, andNew Jersey." Edin was alwayn a
a Government official's salary had heavily chopped dollars gravitate
beon under-estimated by 83 cents. to the more out-of-the-way places,
cannot be overlooked. where they are accepted as cúr rent coin-Our Own Correspon
This is one of those things that
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The extra $250 in the Supple Reporting a local wedding, a
to#Furniture." Or contemporary stated that the mentary Votes for Official Visits is bridal couple took refuge behind credited
tion?" the cake, Happily, they didn't should we say, 'Interior Decora burat Into tiers.
dent..
Ten further cases of small-pox were notified yesterday, of which
ninc. were from Kowloon,