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K.O.S.B. STABBING IDAHO' LETS BORAH
AFFAIR.
PTE. BOYLE ENTERS PLEA OF GUILTY.
ADMITS ATTACKING SERGT. IN FIT OF ANGER.
SENTENCE DEFERRED.
After remands at the Police Court from week to week over a period of months, Private James Boyle, of the K.O.S.B., pleaded guilty of the Criminal Sessions this morning when charged with stabbing Sergeant Kerr at sea in October last, ***
He declared that he attacked Kerr in a fit of anger, but had no intention of ouing the knife,
The charge in legal terma was that of stabbing Sergeant Kerr
with intent to "naim, disable, or do other grievous hodily harm.”
tence.
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DOWN BADLY.
AMUSING EPISODE IN DEBATE
ON PROHIBITION.
ACTION BY MR. HOOVER
Washington, Feb. 19.
It is believed that Mr. Hoover, the President-Elect, who has just returned to Washington from Florida, will devote all his energies. It is rumoured that he intends to to the enforcement of Prohibition. remove the responsibility for the enforcement of the law from Tronsury Justice, at the head of which the Department of will be the redoubtable Dry Senatoj Borah.
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AFWEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1929.
FURTHER HELP FOR MINERS.
NEARLY $200 MORE "SENT TO-DAY.
FIRST CONTRIBUTIONS" EROM
THE OUTPORTS. "
"EVERY $5 MEANS £1"
ledge further contributions to the We are happy again to acknow- Telegraph appeal on behalf of the British Miners' Distress Fund.
A well-known local resident for Senator Borah was only yester-wards $100. and another sends day on the subiect of Prohibition. $50. Our thanks are due for The subfert unter discussion was these appreciated gifts Other the Janes Bill, which seeks to fix amounts bring the day's total, the maximum penalty for violation made up at noon, to $196. of the Prohibition Law at five result is that the local fand now year's imprisonment, of a C$10,000 stands at well over the $2,000
Ane.
After Senator Reed had referred 门 most scornful terms to
the
activities of "Pussyfoot" Juluson
mark.
The
The response so far has been could still be done, especially in most encouraging, but much more view of the fact that the rigors of winter are increasing the priva tions of the miners' famílies.
Mr. Justice Wood deferred sen- and the Anti-Saloon League, Sens Mr. H. G. Sheldon, who repre-or Borak insisted that the con- sented the accused, anid that while stitution must be respected. talking with Royle in prison State, Idaho, as the model of a law- Senator Borah cited his own yesterday, the prisoner expressed abiding community. regret at adopting such " mean and cowardly method of getting
of the Senate were We again appeal for further his own back."
greatly amused when in res donations, and would stress the Mr. II. Sameraet Fitzroy appear-ponse to this statement, Sena-point that small sums are most
ed for the Crown.
Serious offence.
The prisoner, said Mr. Fitzroy, had pleaded guilty to a very seri- ous offence which took place in most extraordinary circumstances. | He came out to Chinn with a drúft on the troopship Somersetshire. On October 20, at about one o'clock in the morning, when the ship was between Aden and Co- lombo, he was seen crawling from under a K.0.8.3. mosa table, after which there was the sound of a scuffle. When other people arriv od they had to pull Boyle off Sergt. Kerr who had been stabbed in the updy, the knife having gone
Memburs
Small Sums Welcome.
tor Bruce, of Maryland, read welcome, as 'every $5 subscribed a newspaper article headed "Idaho in Ilongkong means an addition of Drowns Dry Problem in Moon-£1 to the funds. There must be shine" and going on to describe the many residents who could easily conditions in Idaho as "shocking." afford to send $5. Will they make The Bill was adopted and now a point of doing so and thus bring goes to the House of Representa-added comfort to their distressed. tives.-Reuter's American Service,
AIR
ADVENTURE WRECKED.
COSTES, CRASHES IN PARIS SUBURBS.
kinsfolk in the Old Country?
We are glad to acknowledge amongst to-day's donations the first suma received from outporta -one contribution from. Canton and another from Swatow. Fur- ther support from auch quarters, will be most welcome.
through the ribs and just missed ESCAPES UNINJURED, hence.
lung.
Paris, Fel, ID.
The Next Draft.
Last Friday, the first £50 was cabled Home, and we hope to for. ward the second draft two dava In the meantime, 'intend- ing subscribers should make a point of forwarding their dona- Early mishap befel the latest tions without delay, so that the venture of the famous French second draft may be substantial airman, Captain Costes, who left in amount. Sums so far received Le Bourget at 5.53 am, this mortare as under: ing in an endeavour to set up a
The knife, which was covered with fresh blood was picked up directly afterwards at a place where it had been cast aside by the prisoner. The knife belonged Lo one of the messes:
Mr. Sheldon, interposing, snow out and home record between there was not a job of evidence Paris and anol, Indo-China, from which it could be inferred that Boyle had a knife in his pos- session before the stabbing. If Mr. Fitzroy did not want his Lord ship to draw that inference there was no point in going into that ovidence.
His Lordship:-I take it that Mr. Fitzroy does wish i
Mr. Fitzroy--I do, my Lord.
Costes was making for Tripol, but the great machine in which he was flying had not been in the air for mang minutes when engine) trouble developed and Custes was forced to land at Rondy, on the outskirts of Paris.
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Already acknowledged.....$1,947,
& 10/-
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A. C, H, J. Scott Harston
A, B, C.
C. E. W.
Our Swatow Correspondent "Sorry for the Little Ones"
(Canton)
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QUEEN & PRINCES CHINA SEEKING AID
AT THE FAIR.
OF GERMANY.
JADE ASH-TRAY GIFT FOR KING.
+
PRINCE OF WALES WALKS SIX MILES ROUND STANDS.
INDUSTRIALISATION OF THE COUNTRY,
NEW MINISTER'S IDEAS,
Berlin, Feb. 19. The influence of the West on China, with special reference to Germany, was the subject of an address to a delegation of journa-
Shanghai, Feb. 20. Mr. Vyvyan Dent, the former Commissioner of Customs Buccumbed in the General Hospital, following the motor-bus accident reported yesterday.A SUITE FOR WINDSOR, lets by Mr. Chiang Tea-pin, the Our Own Correspondent.
London, Feb. 19. The Prince of Wales to-day
now Chinese Minister to Berlin, who has only recently arrived in Germany.
relations existing between China After referring to the friendly and Germany, he declared that the Chinese National Government in tended to carry out a big pro-
EFFECT OF NEW TARIFF.
HONGKONG AS A SPOT CARGO DEPOT.
CHINA PROVIDENT MEETING STATEMENT.
LOAN LIQUIDATION
Prosiding at the annual share- Provident Lous and Mortgage Co., holders' meeting of the China Ltd, to-day, Mr. C. A. da Roza said the now Chinons turit was China, but a not improbable result expected to restrict imports 'into
was the greator use of Hongkong 19 depot for spot eargo,
The death, under tragie circum moves a personage who had prac atuces, of Mr. Vyvyan Dent, re tlenily all his life been associated tramped for nearly six miles in with Chinn. He was born in the the London section of the British old "Pao Sun" hong of Messrs. Industries Fair in his anxiety to Dent and Co. in Shanghai in 1862 see the whole of the remarkable when that firm was at the height exhibition. of its prosperity. Within a Tew
· grumme--of-economic reconstruc- months, the death of his mother Prince George accompanied him
Her Majesty the Queen and ion in the very near future. caused his removal to England.
It was impossible, he anid, to which event the Company's busi- finishing at Haileybury Collage, he the section exploited by the Em-souls from the yield of China's organisation of the Company were
for part of the way, and the Royal feed. China's rapidly growingness would benefit. After an education in England, Party took a marked interest in population of over 400,000,000 Steps taken in the continued re- went to Cassel, in Germany, where pire Marketing Board.
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COMBINE AGAINST FENG?
Strained Milltary Situation
Now Reported.
STORY OF FIGHTING.
Naval wireless messages re- ceived to-day state that a strained military altuation has arieen in Southern Shantung and Northern Honan, due pro- bably to the alleged combina- tion of Marshals Yen Shi-shan and Chiang Kai-shek against Marelial Feng Yu-hsiang.
Some of Feng's chief ad- herents, Included amongst whom is the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affaira (Feng's bro- ther-in-law) have hurriedly left Nanking during the last few days.
No confirmation has yet been received of the report that fighting has already occurred in the Taining area.
There is no change to report In the situation at Chefoo. The brigand chief, Huing Feng- chi, is reported to be at Lung- kow..
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he studied at the same school as 100.
Prince Henry, brother of the ex- GO. Kaiser.
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tracted to some Chinese designs The Queen was particularly at
on furniture in one section of the Fair, and finally completed the purchase of a bedroom suite for Windsor Castle.
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Chinese Lacquer,
in
own agriculture, nor could China referred to, especially in the produce sufficient raw materiala. loans. It was stated that during The industrialisation of the the past year a lakh of dollars country was, therefore, impera- I had been paid off mortgages on tive. At least, this was the Chin-the company's property whilst the cse opinion of the problem.
overdraft had been brought down by upproximately $245,000.
The experience gnified by the scientists, technical experts and industrialists in Germany, which The suite is carried out in Chin- in the eyes of the Chinese was one ese Incquer in a soft, pastel blue of the most highly developed in- with conventional Chinese designs, dustrial countries in the world, some of which the makers stated would prove most valuable to had been copied from designs in | China-Reuter, the South Kensington Museum.
The suite, it is to be noted, was
made by disabled trained ex-Ser- RACIAL PROBLEMS
IN FAR EAST.
vico men.
.
Her Majesty also spent a great deal of time in admiration of the new Chinose jade-ware exhibits. She purchased an ash-tray, adorn- M. ALBERT THOMAS' VIEWS
ed with two parrots, which Her Majesty is taking to Bognor on her return" as a present for the King.
Prince and Foreign Buyers..
The Prince of Wales expressed
ON LABOUR CONDITIONS.
Another interesting statement was that the Company's not pre- fits had almost doubled during the past year.
Chairman's Speech.
Addressing the shareholders, the Chairman sald:-Gentlemen,-In accordance with the practice on
these occasions, I propose, sub- ject to your approval, to take the report and accounts as read.
The affairs of the Company are still in the process of reorganisa- tion, and it is perhaps desirable therefore to go through the prin- cipal items of the. balance sheet and maka somo comments thereon.
The attention of the Board dur- ****
directed, amongst other matters, to`reduction of the loan indebted-
CHINA' DEVELOPMENTS g the year under review was
Geneva, Feb. 19.
the greatest pleasure on observing | from a tour of the Far East, em-tinuation of the policy of liquidat-
a number of German buyers on
Interviewed to-day on his returnness of the Company and to con- the look-out for handbags and bracing China and Japan, M. Al-ing the loans made by the Com- fancy leather goods, and he con-
bert Thomas, of the International pany at every opportunity.
In carrying out this policy, leans Labour Office, said that he had versed with them for some little been greatly struck by the man- on the collateral or shares were time.-Reuter.
ner in which the racial problem was realised by the sale of the relative In all, says & British Wireless everywhere to the forefront in the securities to the extent of 8255,- message, the Queen, the Prince of Far East. Wales and Prince George apent two hours and a half at the White City, making a most exhaustive inspection of the exhibits.
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Gift for King. One of the first
things Her Subsequently, he studied in Majenty did on arrival was to buy 10. Tours and other French towns,)
a gift for the King. She chose) and in 1882 he returned to China, ay ashtray of jade adorned with being employed in the Customs service and serving at numerous wo parrots, and she gave orders 5. ports in the North and South, and for the article to be put in her eventually becoming Commis- car so that she could take it
20.
096, and on property to the extent
The
Realisation Hopes.
capital locked in loans,
His observations on China were of $40,000, resulting in an im- brief, but he stated that the Kuo-portant surplus over the Specific mintang had given him the im-Reserves provided which has been presion of being a most powerful transferred to the General Reserve party, though he added that Euro- Account. Advantage was taken peans in China were of the belief whenever market conditions per- wur would break out mitted of n sale-whether of that civil again one day.
shares or of property-to liquidate Chinu, he said, was engaged in the sums tied up in these loans, elaborating a social code that would and the Board consider the results enable the unification of labour con-as satisfactory as could be ex The machine crashed and has
ditions.
pected in the conditions prevailing been completedly destroyed, but
Conditions both in China and in last year, during which opportuni- the occupants escaped unhurt.
Japan were very similar, though ties for advantageous sales were Costes was necompanied on this
Total....10 and $2,142. sioner. Total Contradiction.
straight to the King at Bognor. Japan was making great strides to- few. disastrous flight by two lesser-
Need for Help.
With the exception of various The King will be delighted towards the betterment of labour Mr. Sheldon renuirked that there known aviators. It was planned
nella of leave, he had resided in have a gift of this kind from the conditions. Japan, he said, would was no evidence from which the that the party should study the
Some idea of the necessity for China since 1882, finally deciding Exhibition, said Her Majesty, for shortly ratify several new Labour inference could be drawn. The prospects of the establishinent of help can be gained from the fact to settle in the country. He held he has always been keenly interest Conventions. He added that em- prisoner's story was a total con-
a regular air mail service between that investigations recently made the honorary degree of "Su p'in ed in the Fair and would not miss players and workers in Japan ap- tradiction.
France and Indo-China, and the in one of the stricken mining Halen," conferred on him by the it on any account if he were well. pear to ba ripe for collective action,
--Reuter, Mr. Fitzroy said the knife was machine was currying mail repre- areas showed that the average net Chinese Government.
Royal Party Separates, The late Mr. Dent possessed an missing on the 19th and the senting 90,000 francs.
income per person for food, La Brix, Costes partner in the
versatile unusually
Intellectual; next time it was seen was when
Once inside the Fair, the Queen it was picked up covered with memorable flight from Tokyo to clothes, light and heat was only capacity, was a gifted musiclan, a
What happened to it in Paris last year, is getting on much
fluent linguist and an enthusiastic and the two Prince separated, for This compares with an average motorist and mechanic. He owned they naturally wished to see dif the meantime was a question of
The Prince of Inference.
Engaged on a flight very similar of more than 10s. 3d. par head for a most wonderful collection offerent things.
"Those curlon, several of which gained for Wales toured the whole exhibi in its objects, he flew successfully persons in Workhouses. Speaking of Boyle's activities, from Paris to Tunis yesterday, people," states an official report, him a silver medal and a diploma tion, involving a tramp of more Mr. Fitzroy said there was no evi-and he took off at 10.30 a.m. to-day "are having to live on less than at the St. Louis Exhibition, and a than five miles. dence that he saw Sergt. Kerr on for Cairo.-Reuter.
one-third of what it actually costs gold medal at the Llege Exhibition. the evening of the 19th. It ap-
to feed, clothe and shelter the in-. peared that, with three other men,
mates of our Workhouses," he went to a singsong from seven until a quarter past nine, after which he turned in. There was nothing to show what might have led to the sudden attack.
blood.
Mr. Fitzroy then referred to what Boyle and at the time., One man sald Boyle swore and said that he had been ""Walting long enough" Another witness stated
better.
BRITISH AERIAL MAILS.
FICURES FOR PAST YEAR GIVEN.
London, Feb. 19. The Postmaster General slated
that Boyle was in a fighting att- in the House of Commons to-day tude, was excited, raging and that in 1928, 106,000 lettera using filthy, language and threats originating in this country wore. towards Kerr, He said he had curried by air mail. "been waiting for this for months, Now, come out and fight it like
No fewer than 350,000 létiers,
were sent abroad by ordinary
a man." That, said counsel, was mails and subsequently carried
after he had stabbed the men,
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Sergeant Recovering,
Sergt. Korr, who was put ashore
at Colombo, was placed on the
danger lat on November 20, Kerr
by air muil-British Wireless.
HOLLAND'S QUEEN.
28. Bd. per week, 1
This report tells its own tale, and the facts disclosed should in-. duce those who have not already subscribed to the Fund to do so without delay.
HIS MAJESTY BASKS IN THE SUN,
SATISFACTORY DAY AFTER COLD MORNING.
London, Feb. 19. After a good night, His Majesty has had a satisfactory day, states an official mesenge from Gralgweil House, Bognor, this evening.
U.S. TUBE TRAIN FIRE.
PASSENGERS AFFECTED BY FUMES.
New York, Feb. 19. Fifty passengers were injured and two hundred affected by smoke and furses as the result of a fire on the first car of a tube train pro- ceeding to New Jersey by the under- ground railway beneath the Hudson | River-Renter's|American Sorviço,
FRENCH REVENUE.
In the morning It was cold, dull AN UNEXPECTEDLY LARGE
and cheerless, but in the afternoon there were a few hours of sunshine, and the King was again able to slt
was in a very serious state on WELL ON ROAD TO COMPLETE in a chair at the open window of
January 10. It was expected that ho would die. The latest informa- ton, however, was a telegram dated February 15, stating that Korr was recovering, and was being invalided Home in March.
(Continued on Page 7.)
RECOVERY,
·INCREASE.
His Royal Highnoss made par- ticular inquiries at the various stalls in the section occupied by the Empire Marketing Board to what was being done to improve salesmanship.
Canada,
When visiting the most attrac- tively arranged Canadian Section, the Prince disclosed his intention of endeavouring to go again to Canada in the near future.
The Queen afterwards returned to Bognor.-British Wireless,
SWEEPING CHANGE BY BLUE STAR LINE.
ALL VESSELS TO BURN NEW PULVERISED COAL.
ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW STATE.
VATICAN PROPOSALS FOR THE FUTURE.
Rome, Feb. 19.
less the provision for loss in realisation, is the important figure approximating 0% lakhs of dollars, in regard to which the policy of the Board is known to you. We are awaiting a favour- able opportunity to realiso it.
The agreement with the firm of our Inte General Managers, re- ferred to at the last annual general meeting, has been fully. complied with.
Under "Investments," the book value of 10,000 shares in the Hongkong & Territorial Estates, Rapid devolopment of the new Ltd:, has been written off to the Papal Territory is indicated In a General Reserve Account. The report from an authoritative source Company has gone into liquida- that the newly-erected Sovereigntion, and no return is expected of State of the Vatican is to have its any part of the capital invested in own telegraph office and telephone it by this Company. exchange.
sion.
Sundry debtors in the sum of The innovations will give the Pope $95,000, were outstanding on the and the Papal authorities communi- date of the balance sheet; the cations with the outside world fe amount is large, but is incidental dependent of any Italian supervi- to the business and coincides with The Papal authorities from now at the end of the year. A sum of the quarterly accounts rendered on, it is stated, will be in a post-about $65,000 was collected in the Lion to get into direct touch with first five weeks of this year, and London, Paris, Berlin, and elso-
the balance, has since run where.
satisfactorily.
The other assets, gentlemen, do not call for any special explana~
It has also been arranged that the Vatican will send its own corros pondence in Pontifical lorries con- neeling with various trains- Router.
CANADA RATIFYING PACT.
tion.
Liabilities Reduced.
off
The Company's abilities havo not been neglected,, for we "have been able to reduce the same dur- ing the year 1928, although 'not quite so satisfactorily as in 1927, Ottawa, Feb. 19. when the reduction was about The Canadian House of Com-8480,000. All sums realised from mens to-day passed unanimously loans have been applied towards The change-over will be affected Mr. Mackenzie King's resolution our liabilities, and during the within the shortest possible for the ratification of the Kellogg year under consideration, a lakh space of time-Reuter.
Pact-Router.
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London, Feb. 19. Paris, Feb, 10.
AB-the-outcome-of-satisfactory- The French revenue return for
tests_recently,' it_is_announced by his room to enjoy it.
January la officially stated to have the directors of the Blue Star Line Dr. Woods went down from Lon- been Frs. 3,308,000,000, which re that all vessels under their control The Hague, Feb. 19. don to apply vialet ray treatment. veals an increase of Frs. 497,000,000 will be converted to burn pulverleed Queen Wilhelmina has sufficient-It is understood that the members on the Budget preliminary coal entirely. ly recovered from her illness to of the Royal Suite are quite sati- timates, and an increase of Fra. transact State business to-day-fied with the King's progress. 491,000,000 on the returns of Janu- Router.
ary last year. Reuter
British Wireless.