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EXPECTED.
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MAPAITAUF SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1928. BATA  BIRGER COPY 18 CENT
ESO FOR ANNUM
CHINA.
YANG SEN'S FORCES NEARING THE CITY.
CUNARD LINE RESENTS
CORDIAL RECEPTION OF TARIFF TREATY.
RESIDENTS ANXIOUS.
Hankow, Dec. 28, With regard to the civil war. iu Szechuan, it is reported that Chungking is expected to fall during the next few days. The
fighting General Liu Halang has already arrived in the vicinity of Chungking. A general attack on the capital is expected to com- mence at any moment,
PROGRESSIVE POLICY NOT TO BE IMPEDED.
U.S. ACTION.
VIOLATION OF LAWS.
New York, Dec. 28 The Associate Director of the Cunard Line has protested to the United States Shipping Board that
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OF FIGHTING.
LEGATION BUILDINGS
BADLY DAMAGED.
AFGHAN REBELS USE PLACE AS SMALL FORT.
war.
From the Office Butts.
Perhaps the alleged persecution. The driver of the public car" of dog-owners in the gardon who allowed his fare to drive to suburb is merely a Kowloon tong Shanklwan last Saturday has now discovered that it's neither the cost ព ជ
nor the up-keep but the turn-over- Raplying to a question as to that worries.. whether any dogs suspected of the
ᄆᄆ disease have proved to bo rabid,
The Sub-Editor welcomes the
SPENDS RESTFUL DAY. main body of the ailled troops JAPANESE INFLUENCE. the assignment of the s. Presi- SERVANT CASUALTIES, understand that he doesn't expect one line.
London, Dec. 28.
This morning's bulletin regard- ing the King, announcing a slight mprovement during the night, was regarded in Palace circles as of
There is a large contingent of troops under General Liu Hsiang
London, Dec. 28.
The publication In Londen of the full text of the tariff treaty recently concluded between China and Great Britain has resulted in generally favourable comment, it being point-
ailghtly less disquieting character at Chungking, and publie organised cut that as an experiment it is Law Courts for relief in the event news to-day showing that not only presumed that the akyscraper hit
than that of yesterday evening.
The advance made, however, was very alight, and anxiety has leen lessened only to a very small extent. It is important, for instance, that the doctors admit that the King's general condition does not slow the progress expected a week;
NKO,
It is His Majesty's general con- dition which is the chief concern of the physicians, and it will not be until this show: considerable improvement that any more de- finite progress can be made.
Reuter was officially Informal at 8.16 p.. that there 114 110 change in His Majesty's condition.
Was
The following bulletin issued from Buckingham Palaegʻat H.15 p.m.:
"The King has had a restful day. The sight Improvement noted this morning is maintain-
ed.
(Signed) Stanley Newell,
Hugh Rigby, Dawson of Per
In view of the nature of to night's bulletin, which is regarded as slightly more lavourable, the Prince of Wals will adhere to his Intention of hunting with the Bel- voir Hounds to-morrow, while the Duke and Duchess of York have abandoned their intention of return.
Special Treatment.
tlons in the city have presented a petition to the leaders of the Army arging them to hand over the administration peacefully to the advancing army of General Yang Sen in order that life and property may be preserved,
A petition has nisa been sent to General Yang Sen and tieneral Lai Hain-huel requesting them to permit the forces at pre- sent In Chungking to retreat from the city.
It is rumoured that General Liu Hsiang has fled, and that the fight- and at, Fungchwan bas all been' ing in districts near Chungking favourable to General Yang Sen and his allies.
General Liu Hsiang and his allies, Liu Wen-huei, Tang Hai- hau and Tin Chung-is, wired to Nanking from Chungking yeater- day urging the Government to dis- and miss General Yang Sen General Lal Hsin-huvi, and to organise a punitive expedition to be sent to Szechuan,
INDIA'S STATUS.
COMPROMISE RESOLUTION
APPROVED.
Calcutta, Dec. 28.
A serious split within the In-
likely to prove valuable,,
Distinetly favourable opinion, it can be said, has been the immediate efeel of the publication.
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Mr. G. B. Sayer, at Thursday's nowa that Sir Austen Chamberlain Sanitary Board meeting, replied: may be made a peer. It may now "None since the last case." We be possible to get his name into
any more until the next.
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Husbands will not discover until Line, in competition with the Cun-
New Delhi, Dec, 28. We shall soon have to begin next week how much they were The severity of the fighting slaving up for next Christmas. able to afford for the Christinas ard Company, violates the United
round Kabul and the perilous
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present's bought for them by their States shipping law of 1910.
position of the British Legation "Williams Hits Skyscraper," wives... "Ife threatens to appeal to the some time back is revealed by says a Manila paper, It is to be
"Albanians mean 'res' when was the house of the British back.
they shake their heads," says a of the Cunard Line sufering ap-Military Attache destroyed by
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nowa item. That's nothing, so do shellfire, but seven other build- Progress is the art of making many Hongkong husbands, preciable damage as a result.
motor-cara go where was announced yesterdayings in the British Legation were two
pedestrian went before. that after the Cunard Line had struck and badly damaged.
ធ ធ Most of the windows in the
Christmas is a profitable season Tripo put the s.a. Caronia of the New. York-Havana service, the Shipping Legation were smashed by rific- Board awitched the President are, and the occupants were in for dentists-especially when generated Roosevelt to the route, while the grave peril at the height of the courteous guests attempt to masti- utilized to drive the hand pump cate three-penny bits under the on the six-pleece-man Fire Engine. War Line made a reduction of 26 combat. During the fighting, one impressien they are under-cooked Otherwise crime in the district 18
Afghan employed at the Legation:
normal. per cent. in passenger roles.
i currants. was killed, and two others were The report added that whether n first-class shipping war develops wounded. The rebels have since remained to be seen, but the New heen driven from their positions nearly a dread- Sir Kenneth expressed the opin-York World declared that the and it is not thought likely that the the Legation will again be subject
to such hazardous conditions. hgaty and fon that the Treaty should be re-Shipping Board's action in garded as an experiment, adding matter
American Stories of the damage to the that before one could safely move to considered-Reuter's
British Legation, says a British questions concerning other matters Service.
Wireless message, have been con- firmed by official information from Sir Francis Humphries,
Sir Kenneth Stewart. In the course of an interview with Reuter, stated that the new rates of duty
were not likely to damage in the
least the Lancashire trade in Chinn, even though in some in stances they were higher than at present.
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An Experiment,
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MANCHURIA BECOMES
NATIONALIST.
Nanking Flag to be Íleisted To-morrow,
FORMAL RECOGNITION,
yesterday,
Shanghai, Dec. 29. An Important message from Mukden, dated Mates that the White Sun dag (the Nationalist flag) will be holated an all public build- Inga In Manɛburls to- morrow.
This means that Manchuria, for the first time, formally acknowledges allegianco to the Nanking Government.
ing to London from Northampton-dian National Congress between shire to-night.
delegates who aim at Dominion status and others aiming at com- plete independence has now been The Evening News states that amended by the adoption of a com- Messenger met the great liner promine revolution, on which the Olympic on her Arrival at lenders agree. Southampton from New York to-
Subject to the exigencies of the political situation, the Congress will adopt the
of constitution Dominion status laid down in the Nehra report, provided it be ac- JL has since transpired that the cepted by the British Parliament in which China does not yèl possess the Olympic on or before December 01, 1929 full sovereign powers over foreign- pucket conveyed in from the United States contained but in the event of non- er, some little time should be given the so-called Daklu's Solution, acceptance, the Congress will to see if the present experiment is which was used by the Allied revive non-co-operation and advise Armies during the War igalerilise the country to refuse taxation. wounds.
Later.
day and received frm, the purser small packet containing special strugs for use in connexion with 11 Majesty's illness.
Dr. Sherman, of the Carnegie
Steel Company, Pittsburg, offered
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The Subjects Committee of the to supply the Solution, which is National Congress has adopted the manufactured by an electolytic pro-compromise resolution by be, for loral treatment of the votes to 45-Reuter, King and fe offer was thankfully Caurupted.
Review of Case,
The bulletin issued at 11.45 a.m. sqidis Majesty had a fair night, with quieter sleep towards morning. There is less difliculty in his taking nourishment. His general state has improved in the Just twelve hours.
NEW YEAR MEETING OF POWERS.
Auccessful.
same
Jn an editorial comment on the signature of the Treaty, the Specta for welcomes the agreement and em. phasises that Britain has led the way in China by conferring formal recognition of the National Gov- ernment.
was
FUTURE SALVATION ARMY LEADER.
SISTER OF GEN. 100TH
RETICENT.
London, Dec. 28." Hundreds of members of the Salvation Army accorded i most en thusiastle greeting to Ms Evange line Booth, on her arrival in London from America to-day.
Miss Booth declined to enter into any discussion of the future leader ship of the Salvation Army, regard. ing which there is a distinct cleav- age in the ranks, and would not dis- | elisa the forthcoming meeting of the High Council when the question is likely.to form the main lem of the agenda.
Miss Both, however, hinted that the American delegation held most pronounced viewa.--Reuter,
CUBA CANCELS SUGAR RESTRICTIONS.
EXPORT FACILITIES SHOW BIG CHANGE OF VIEW.
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There was
ful accident in Hongkong this week. A police- man was run
over by grand- ma's scooter.
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During the
coming week,
Rebels Draw the Fire.
none of our hos The Legation was under con-
pitals will be stant gun and rifle fire during very called upon to heavy fighting between Afghan rebels and Afghan regular troops
doa!
with
au it happened to be in the line of broken resolu- fire between the opposing forces. tions.
The position was made much worse by the fact that some of the
Lots of tolk belligerents actually availed them- this week have selves of the shelter of the Lega. developed tion outbuildings, thus giving the gift of the grab. Impression to their opponents that they had occupied the Lega- tion.
By the retirement of the rebels to the north-weat
the
It is understood that a Refuse Destructor is to be erected at Market. Tho steam
therefrom will be
He: "Do you sing?” Bites "I used to, but the doctor has forbidden me to any more.'
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The growing popularity of theatricals seems to show that the Colony
is going to
pieces.
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A reader
wanta, to know
the easiest
way to learn
Janguage. Talk up. golf,
Atheists
are
not subject to
arrest in Hong.
kong, They
He: "Ah, I didn't know that
have to go much
further to bá successful.
he had removed to your neigh- bourhood." ᄆᄆ
"Enquirer:"No; Dr. Johnson The fact that local schools are
was not the heavyweight cham- going in for plenty of football plon. You must be thinking of appears to suggest that higher education goes as far down as the fcol.
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in the carly G. K. Chesterton, hours of Christmas Day, the vicinity of the Legation became outside the fire zone.
Rebel Cleverness. Though the rebel tribes have suffered several reverses thoir ac- tivities are by no means checked, their Intest exploit indicating cx- tremely clever leadership.
"Reporter Has Full Day," saya a heading. That's the worst of these Christmas holidays.
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A Kowloon man didn't know anything about debating societies until he married and started one of his own.
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A new simile:The strain was ne groater than that' placed on a modern clothes-line. ᄆᄆ "An over-oiled engine dangerous," says a motor journal. The anme applies, of course, to the driver.
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Thrift is when a woman does her own gardening in a pair of
៨ ជ Molto for New Year's Eve:- They have diverted the Salang Eat, drink and be wary,
០ ឆ River, which normally, supplies
vaccination, expensive shoes, silk stockings and to In addition Kabul power, thus depriving the Govern- several Kowloon ladies underwent "silk dress. ment factories of light and power, osculation during Christmastide.
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with its
hydro-electric
ceived by Racha Sagao, the bandit
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Great words of little wives -
The scheme was apparently con- Says contemporary: The "My husband is like a finger bowl leader, who chose point some human brain is a wonderful organ. he's not there until dinner in A presidential decret issued to-
of Kabul, It starts working the 'moment we over?' day ammonites the abolhion of re- Jabaisura for the enterprise, set up in the morning, and doesn't strlefioris regarding the forthcom-
Havana, Dec. 28.
fifty
ly.
miles north
eyes?"
Better Than for Many Years.
ᄆᄆ ing Edgar crop, and nd only re- which was carried out successful stop until we get to the office. A stray bat from the belfry: The journal congratulates Sir seinds the regulation affecting
Kabul wis on his achieve-planting, cutting and gending, but
soon afterwards "How can a. short-sighted man Miles Lampson ment, saying that to-day, Britain's allows chippers greater freedom in thrown completely into darkness, position in China is better than it the marketing of sugar abroad and among the Government face acquire a far-away look In his
O O without the supervision of the Ex-tories brought to a standstil) was į
the Arsenal.
news from The latest
the port Commission.
The immediate rest of the The loyal forces of the Afghanis-
Granite City:-Two taxis collided hastan ruler are now planning an
Thirty passengers In Aberdeen. changed conditions in Caba
were injured. New York-Reuter's American
០ ជ been an easing of suger prices in attack which will enable them to Service.
The second Test match seemed to show that the kangaroo had lost the use of his tall!
DISARMAMENT PROBLEMS
has been for many years past. FOR REVIEW,
The tariff treaty has given the National Government "face" not London, Dec. 28.
out of compulsion, but purely vol- It is officially announced at At a consultation this morning
ernment is the progress of the past week was Geneva that the Preliminary Comentarily as far as the British Gov. concerned, murking
reviewed. During that period mission, on Disarmament which the dawn of a new period of re- there has been definite improve-has not met since May, 1927, has construction in China and a new
era of Anglo-Chinese relations. ment in the local condition; but been convoked to meet on the 15th on the contrary the general condi- April, 1929.
The Nation which also refers to the Treaty in tion, as evidenced by weight and
complimentary terms, goes on to speak of the regarding position of Japan
The United States Government strength, does not show the same has accepted an invitation to ap- progress. Measures best adapted point delegates.-Reuter, for meeting this difficulty were
Fonsidered and determined."
Anxiety Remains,
The morning bulletin is regarded
Palace circles as slightly less
diaquicting. The advance In the
FINDING OPPONENT
FOR DEMPSEY.
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China Japan, Il points out, is the only country which has not exhibited a willingness to Te cognise tariff autonomy, and the Nation expresses the opinion that Japan can hardly afford to
last twelve hours has been very STRIBLING AND SHARKEY TO play a lone hand for long.
alight, and anxiety at the Palace
is only correspondingly lessened. Progress in local Improvement is not of immediate
though satisfactory.
MEET.
Miami, Dec. 28. importance, Tex Richard announces that Young Stribling and Sharkey will
a closely guarded secret' at the moment.
tico.
Japan Not A Brake,
WIRELESS STATION
ABLAZE
IMPORTANT AUSTRALIAŇ CENTRE THREATENED.
Melbourne, Dec. 28.
A fire has broken out at Ballan which threatens to destroy the wireless station there. The wire less station Is that from which Recent events, it adde, give beam messages are transmitted to aome assurance that. British un-England,
There is little hope of saving the derstanding with Japan will not be allowed to act as a brake on a receiving room-Retter, progressive British policy in China.
The masures the doctors have meet in a heavyweight bout on decided to adopt-as announced, are February 27th next.
The winner will probably con-
The New Statesman cordially as a satisfactory surpile that Sir The Prince of Wales called at the tent the championship with Jack welcomes the British lead. The Austen Chamberlain ka not been Palace twice this morning. Prin-Dempsey.-Reuter's American Ser- Nanking recognition ceremonies persuaded to hang back with her. cess Mary, who intended to go to
mark the end of a long and bitter The Saturday Revku suggests Yorkshire will remain at the Palace
struggle between Britain and that the signature of the tariff temporarily.
an carnest of Britain's Intention treaty and the formal recognition actively to help in the reconstrue-of the Nanking Government le tion of China.
valuable not only for the develop ment of trade, but as proving that Fears Unfounded.
the American fears of a new While deploring that Japan still Anglo-Japanese Alliage are un lage behind, the journal regards {founded.-Reuter.
It is understood that at this morning'e consulation the results
of bacteriological examination
FINE WEEK-END.
made yesterday by Doctor Whitby were considered Router and Birnoon to-morrow is:-North-east tish Wireless
The Observatory forecast up. till
winde, fresh;' fine.
counter this move.
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That Boxing Day ache was the reproof of the pudding.
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"With lots of folk in the Colony
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Hongkong's lalest sport:- Christman went with a swig.
Fishing for Austin Sevens.
Hongkong merchants are good at statistics. Even on our streets they may be seen studying figures.. ☐ 0. MacWhirter, he says, this is the Severe Engagements,
time of year when a man goes out The Afghan Legation in London.
and plays lawn bowls in his shirt which is in receipt of frequent
sleeves and then goes home and wireless messages via Moscow, According to the newspapers, after sitting. In a drift for five announces that King Amanullah's it is anticipated that so long minutes catches a severe chill.
however slow, forces are resolutely pursuing the as progress, rebellious tribesmen in the enn
be reported. His Majesty A now serum for the cure of. will go on well. Quite so, as long rheumatism has been produced. Looks like taking away our most reliable weather forecaster.
Northern Province.
.
Severe engagements have also as the King Improves he will get taken place round Jelalabad where better. Government troops are engaging
ᄆᄆ
most
now
the rebel Shinwaris. At the It might have been-Hollis had same time, negotiations with the only to hollis shots in one. Shinwari leaders are proceeding.
口口 King Amanullah remains at his
The Christmas trees we Palace in Kabul.
appreciated were those in Reports from Kabul state that shoes.. the government troops have cupied Pagman and driven out the reticle.
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Eighteen miles from Kabul the rebels have destroyed the military hospital at Hiripals Height and
They used to set their caps at men but now its their kace-caps.
The Christmas spirit affected some in different ways. We saw a Hongkong flanner holding up her
skirt to dodge a puddle..
ᄆᄆ Wherewith we burst verac:
Mary had a little dress,
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A dainty bit and airy;
into
It didn't show the dirt a bit,
But, my, how it showed
Mary!
0 0 A local church magazine has on advertisement for "Fire Extingui-,
A Kowloon Wolf Cub swallowed a spoon Inst Tuesday but he hasn't number of villages round. Kabul, | stirred yet.
口口 It is understood that the Indian authorities will provide the female A sporting writer says there are shing Apparatus.” refugees of the French, German not nearly enough opportunities and other nationalities, who have for bowls In England.
What about the Telephone Co been evacuated by British acro-little rink wouldn't do them any letting out the hen house unt!! planes from Kabul to Peshawar, harm!
such time as the rains come? with railway tickets to Bombay or
Turkey has been the cause of a' Calcutta, and small advances of "A Kowloon flapper now holds moneyReuter and British Wire the record. She wore out three number of Internal revolutions this
bunches of mistletoe.
fless.
Another
week.