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BERLIN RIOT VICTIMS.
FUNERAL OF MR. MACKAY,
Berlin, May 8. The funeral took place in Berlin to-day of Mr. Charles E. Mackay, the New Zealand journalist who was killed during last, wook's dis- orders. The British chaplain, the Rey. R. H. Cragg; officinted at the ceremony..
Among those present were the Counsellor of the British Embassy, Mr. Nicholson, the Consul-General, Mr. Lyall, and many British and foreign journalists. Members of the British colony who attended in- cluded Mr. Tom Sullivan, the New Zealand oarsman, who has for many years been a rowing conch at
Wannsee.
The German Foreign Office, the Berlin police, and the Berlin Press The RF() represented.. funeral address was delivered by the president of the Foreign. Press
were
Association.
Several of the other victims of the rioting also were buried to-day The communists had tried to obtain a general burial in a common grave; accompanied by mass demonstra- Lions, but this was defeated by the preference of most of the relatives for a private funeral.
were
on
In respect of the two women who ahot while standing balconies in the Hermannstrasse on Friday, 31 charge of murder against some person ankown has been preferred, and has been taken up by the Public Prosecutor.
Moscow's Fury..
The Moscow Press which is now rentearing after the Mar Day holidays is furious with the Ger-
man Socialists for frustrating the
Soviet design in Berlin, and prints Its accounts of the disorders under such headlines as "The Bloodhounds. of Social Dempérney Shoot Down Workers," in the best style of the Rote Fahne.
TUESDAY, JUNE 1929.
AMERICAN CRUISER
SEARCHED.
PROMBITION AGENTS ON A
"WILD-GOOSE CHASE."
New York, May 5. The United States Navy ran foul of prohibition when, in response to an anonymous letter saying the cruiser Richmond, which was re- turning from manoeuvres off Cuba, was carrying liquor, eleven customs agents searched stem to stern.
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'CAPE CORNWALL AND TEMPLAR IN PORT.
Beside the 1.8. Cape Cornwall, the dotails of which were given In these "columns yesterday, another 'vensol new to the port figured in yesterday's Harbour Omeo Reports, this being tho 8.8 Quarrington Court which arrived in port at 7 am, on Sunday from Singapore with 2,823 tons of
the vessel: fromal cargo for local discharge and
Before the search Captain Hugo Osterhaus expressed doubt of its success, saying that the men were carefully searched on returning from shore leave in wet countries, but he sasigned an officer to aid the search, which extended into lockers and bunks and the sailor bags, while the sailors grinned at the searchers. After four hours the customs, agents, decided that they had been sent on a wild goose chase.
The crow of the Relgenland, re-
turning from a round the world cruise, sailed home yesterday with a less pleasing recollection of customs experience. The searchers of that vessel confiscated the purchases of the crow for sweethearts and wives, and then deciding that such a seizure was ridiculous, returned the souvenirs. None had been labelled and they were dumped in a pile on the deck.
LETTER GOLF.
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Everyone should favour the WORLD COURT, at least as letter golf puzzle. It makes fateresting par six,
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The Pravda declares that the results of May Day in Berlin are a mere Pyrrhie victory for the Socialists, and will serve only to ne celerate their bunkruptcy. It pro- phesies that the day is not far off when the German working classes under the leadership of the Com- munist Party will impose their pro-
1-The idea of letter golf is to letarian commands upon the Ger-change one word to another and man bourgeoisie..
With singular effrontry the Tsestia exculpates Moscow from any part in the disorders, declar- ing that the accusations against Moscow in the bourgeois and Socialist Press of Germany smack of the "well-known anti-Soviet for- gerfes in England."
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do it in par, a given number of strokes. Thus to change COW to HEN, in three strokes, COW. HOW HEW HEN.
about a wook ago.
to
4.770 tons for ports beyond. Sho is under charter to Jardine, Matheson, & Co. for a trip out East and is one of two vessels owned by the United Steamship Co. Ltd. chartered to other shipping firms for that purpose, the other being Ros- singlon Court, under charter
Mackinnon, Mackenzie. Mesers. The Roapington Court arrived hare
of Capt. J. Watson with a crew of 29 Europtans and 13 Asiatics, the Quarrington Court is a steel screw steamer of 6,922 gross tonnage and 4,334. nott Built only last year by the tonnage. Fairfield Co. Ltd. at Glasgow, ber dimensions are length 420 feet, breadth 50.6 feet and depth 32.8 feet. Registered at London, engined by J. G. Kinkaid and Co. to
Under the command
541 N.H.P.
she WAS
A Norwegian Vessel.
Another vessel which is not only new to the port but is also a new one, having been built this year, untered the harbour yesterday mor ning, this being a Norwegian vessel, the mv. Templar, owned by W. Wilhelmsen.
whom for
Measts, Thoresen are the local agents.
A sleek twin screw motor, vessel of 0,730 groan tonnage and 4,117 nett tonninge, she was built at Kiel by Dastache Werke A. G. and her dimen- sions are length 401,4 feet, breadth 60.8 feet, and depth 28,9 feet. Re- gistered at Tonsberg, she was engined by the builders.
CHINESE INGENUITY.
OPIUM CLEVERLY SECRETED
IN GRAMOPHONE.
The ingenuity of the Chinese smuggler in secreting illicit goods in specially improvised hiding places han often bean counteracted by the equal dexterity of revenue officers who have sometimes ferret- al out contraband which" thought by the carrier to have been beyond detection.
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It was a happy thought which prompted Revenue Officer Tallon o dismantle the sound box and the 2-You can change only one | ather metal parts on the cover of letter at a time.
portable gramophone which was being, carried by a Chinese par senger who alighted from Canton train on Sunday afternoon. The thoroughness of the officer's search of the instrument was amply rewarded when cleverly concealest in the hollow cover were overal mann packages which, on being opener, were found to contain small quantities of raw opium.
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One solution is printed on an- other page.
Manking, June 3. The Japanese, Italian and Ger- man Ministers presented their credentials to Chiang Kai-shek this morning-Reuter,
3-You must havo a complete word, of common usage, for each jump. Slang words, and abbrevia The absurdity of the Isvestia'ations don't count, white-washing of Moscow has been placed outside the pale of contro- verny by telegrams which have bo interested by the German rist office. One these, from the Morrow Metal Worker's' tinion, is the wife that "the barricades and blood al Berlin workers will be martal in the bistry of revolu Lion.
As A demonstration of the revolutionary preparedness of the German working classes, and as a vile act of treason on the part of the thrice cursed social democracy. Long live the life and death struggle against the bourgeoisie and their Socialist watchdogs,"
To-night comes the news from Warsaw that a well-dressed man has been arrested there on his arrival by train from Berlin. It is alleged that he was found to be in possession of a false passport and
was unable to give any satisfactory account of himself.
On him is stated to have been found a full list of the Communist leaders responsible for the or. ganisation of the May Day demon- stration in Berlin, together with numerous instructions and large scale map of Berlin.
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On analysis it was discovered that the heal amounted to 112 tele which formed the subject of
of unlawful possession charge brought against the carrier, who np- peared before Mr. T. 8 Whyto Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday.
The defendant, "whon harged, admitted that the drug belonged to him and, was fined $2,000 with the alternative of eleven months' hard labour in default. In imposing the fine his Worship ordered the con- fisention of the gramophone as well as the opium.
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