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LIFE_SAVED BY A NANKING WAR ON MISTAKEN IDEA IN
MIRACLE.
THREE HOURS IN WATERS SHARK-INFESTED.
WASHED OVERBOARD,
Singapore, Oct. 12. The story of "the miraculous escape from death of a British sea- man, named Alexander Ure, after
KUOMINCHUN.
PUNITIVE EXPEDITION
NOW ORDERED.
TRIPLE CRISIS FACING THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT.
MOLASSES AND TIMBER. | swimming for approximately three IRONSIDE TRİCKERY?
hours in shark-infested waters in An area of over 12,000 square the Red Sea, was told in Singapore feet, occupied by a fairly large last night, on the arrival in Chinese sugar refinery, a timber port of the Japanese surgo-steamer yard and smaller concerns, and | Dakar -Maru,
situated on the water-front side of
Canton Road and Pitt Street, Yau- muth, was devastated by fire in the carly hours of this morning, the blaze sweeping through the pre- mises with alarming rapidity, ren tered furious by burning molasses, and doing damage running into thousands of dollars.
WASHINGTON.'
| ANGLO-AMERICAN NAVY POOL
SUGGESTED.
MR. STIMSON'S DENIAL.
Washington, Oct, 11.
BRITISH PATRIOT PASSES AWAY,
EARL OF MEATH DIES AGED 88 YEARS.
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From the Office Butts.
Some broadcasts are subject to This falling currantey is a really distortion. For that matter, so hair-raisin business. are some leading articles.
Who is Sylvia, what is she, That all the swains conjecture? The answer is with Basil P- Не knows his stuff-you
betcher!
If one had fixed exchange and would have made a lot of money- then bought a lot of sterling, one if one had had a lot of dollars!
ᄆᄆ
It has been suggested that there
The Bateman cartoon is yet to should be women members of the
be drawn depicting a scientist in Legislative Council. Eves drop- kong dollar can really drop.
0 0 Oh gentle dollar whence away Oh wherefor art thou falling? You've knocked the value of our
pay,
To depths so mean and galling. Our clothes are going to cost us.
more,
A rather remarkable declaration by a well-known American public- ist regarding the Anglo-American naval negotiations, has brought a formal denial from the Secretary of ACTIVE CAREER ENDS. the act of testing how far a Hong- ping In!. State, Mr. H. L. Stimson, Nanking, Oct. 11.
The well-known Washington pub-
London, Oct. 11. An official communique issued licist referred to declared that in
The death took place to-day of
Shanghal keeps adding to its this evening states that a punitive effect Great Britain and the United the Earl of Meath at the age of.
entertainments. They now have expedition against the Kuomin-States have agreed to pool their 88 years.
lady bowlers there. chun will be ordered immediately. Navies in order to maintain the The Earl was famous as the
00 founder of that movement for The communique says that Mar-peace of the world.
According to a magazine writer, Alexunder Ure is a member of shal Feng Yu-hsiang has repeated-
Commencing on this statement, thinking imperially which resulted the modern girl doesn't care for the crew of the British s.s. Bom-ly expressed his desire to go Mr. H. L. Stimson said most em: in May 24th, the birthday or gin. We suppose she's happy so bala, which was steaming through abroad, so the Government has phatically that the Red Sen on September 27th, been adopting a tentative attitude drawn completely misrepresented Empire Day. The suggestion that
the assumption
Queen Victoria, being.observed as long as she has "It." her way to Bomkay.
towards him. Certain other Kuc- the actual facts and the spirit whichthe day should be devoted to this
Our interport carsmen are minchun commanders, however, prevalled in the conferences be-purpose he first made to Mr. beginning to practice. They're have been interfering with thetween President Hoover and Mr. Joseph Chamberlain when the hoping to get a stroke of luck. Government's disbandment pro- Ramsay MacDonald.
latter was Colonial Secretary, in
0.0 and its schemes for gramme
The See-Saw-Down goes the 1902. Mr. Stimson emphasised that Lord Meath was also identitied dollar; üp go the living costs. national defence.
Moreover, the
during the whole conversations with many religious and social leaders yesterday issued a circular Kuominchun
there was not one syllable to sup movements, including telegram denouncing the National American Service,
the Boy A Shanghai man thinks Hong- port the Government and stating that they
statement. Reuter's Scouts and the Church Army. He kong is "over-rated. So do local had started an expedition against
had been ill for some time and he taxpayers. Nanking, which would destroy the
passed at 2.26 this afternoon.--
00. units of the country.
Reuter and British Wireless. ...
Ure was sleeping on the deck of the Bombala when a huge sea swept over the craft, washing him over. board unnoticed.
He mode an effort to swim to
shore, about seven miles distant, through the shark-infested water, It provided one of the most and he had been in the water for pectacular blazes seen on the about three hours when he attract owloon side of the harbour fored the attention of the look-out on ny months, and it was witness the Dakar Maru, which was on her by dozens of Europeans who | way, to Singapore, and was picked jed out on seeing the ominous up.
v in the sky, and hundreds of}
ments.
Interviewed by your correspon. iese from the surrounding dent or the arrival of the vessel in harbour this evening. Ure described his escape as an act of God. He Great Tongues of Flume. would never be afraid of death Such was the fury of the con-again--Our Own Correspondent;
flagration that it must have been visible for miles. Great tongues of flame leaped twenty feet high from the top of a thirty-foot build- ing, while showers of sparks were carried in all directions by the strong wind which was blowing.
While Hot Metal!
RAILWAY DISPUTE
AVERTED.
COMPANIES AND TRADE UNIONS AGREE,
London, Oct. 1.E.
Cannot Be Tolerated. "Such disloyalty, says the com munique, cannot be tolerated, and therefore it is proposed that a punitive expedition be ordered against the rebels.
Tokyo, Oct. 11. Mr. Wakatsuki, who has been re- garded as the certain head of the Japanese delegation. to the five- power naval conference, interview-
The chief Former Diplomat.
objection to the inferiority com- The veteran Earl of Meath was ed by the Rengo Agency to-day, born on July 31st, 1841, and auc plex is that it said he had refused the offer loceeded to the title, of which he was never seems." to head the disarmament delegation-the 12th holder, in 1887. He was affect the right Reuter.
educated at Eton and on the Con- Later.
tinent and then served in the people. The question as, to whether. Mr. Wakatsuki has accepted Foreign Office for five years. Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang is in- leadership of Japan's delegation to Afterwards, he was attached to Lots of reda volved in the plot must be investi-London when Mr. Hamaguchi visit the Legation at Frankfort in 1866, are being run gated; if so, he should be dulyed him this morning and urged him, to the Embassy at Berlin from out of Kwangai. punished.
The Government has decided that 1867 to 1870, and at Paris from other delegates shall be Admiral 1870 to 1673. He was married in That is fine for Takarabe and Mr. Matsudaira.—1868 to" Lady Mary Jane Maitland' the whence but Reniter.
(who died in 1918), and his not so good for marriage assured him of the co
The communique concludes "For the sake of peace, this rebel- lion must be suppressed."
It is stated in official circles that the recent telegram from leading officers of the "Ironsides," express- ing loyalty towards the Govern- ment, was purely a wick to delay the Government attack against
Triple Crisis.
TURN OF TABLES IN AFGHANISTAN.
TRIBES DECLARE FIDELITY TO NADIR KHAN.
Paria, Oct. 11.
operation and sympathy of one the whitter. whose whole heart, like his own, was devoted to the welfare, of others..
口口
Our shirts and socks and undies; Our house rents too are bound
to soar,
i. As well as ice cream sundaes. "And as for thoughts of holidaya, You start our heads awhirling; How can we hope for jolly days," At your high price for sterling? So may we make, just one
request,
That is if you are able; Please try to do your very best, To stay forever_stüble!
This space is reserved
for the picture of the man
who can tell us why we
cannot
have 1 Gold
Standard in Hongkong.
MacWhirter aays the best way to draw some men out is to pro- duce a corkscrew.
*SO O
"Papa"The true test of your son's ability to become a poet in whether he can go without food for at least a week now and then.
It looks as if next year
are
we
going to spend one-third of our time in bed and the other two-thirds in bad,
Seems to us, the true value of the Hong- kong dollar is what you can
TILES buy with it.
One gratifying possibility about the fall in the dollar is that banana fritters may be found too expen-" sive to make.
口口
As if a six-months' sentence was not enough punishment, a local magistrate advised a bobbed-hair Communist to get married!
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Fortunately the wind was fave ourable to the fire-fighters, { carrying the flames and sparks away from the nearest building A provisional agreement has which otherwise would most cerbeen reached between the railway
As Lord Brabazon, he became tainly have been, involved. Huge companies and the three railway them.-Reuter.
the founder and first Hon. Secre showers of sparks, belched up trades unions, under which the
tary of the Hospital Saturday avery few seconds, were carried existing agreement for a wage
Fund, in 1875, and whilst engaged across the road to tenement houses reduction of two and a half per
Shanghai, Oct. 11.
in this work his health broke down opposite, but the occupants were cent, will be continued for vis Again the China outlook is grave
by addressing seventy meetings in alive to danger and no great alarm | months until-Máy 12th, 1930.) in the extreme, for it can be aid
the course of a few weeks, includ- was felt. 11
The agreement which is subject that the country is facing a triple ceived a communique which con- Park, this being, at the time, thesarily art students.
The Afghan Legation has re-ing an audience of 40,000 in Hyde Designing women are not neces-.
A London hairdresser claims to to ratification by a delegate concrisis with Soviet troops active on
have, descended from an Elizabe ference of the three Unlong, re- the Sino-Siberian frontier, fighting firms the report that Shah Wall's largest non-political meeting ever
A Kowloon man has given his than pirate. Yo-ho and a bottle. For half an hour, it appeared presents a compromise as the Com-between Nanking and Kuomincnun troops occupied Kabul on Sunday held there. that the Fire Brigade, which re-panies desired the reduction to Le troops on the Lung-Hai Railway, and that Habibullah has been originator of the Hospital Sunday wife a fur coat, not to keep her of bay rumi ceived a call at 2.45 am, was mak continued for a further year. and the capture of Kweilin by the overcome,
wärm but to keep her quiet The Trades Unions recently "Ironsides."
An inventor has devised a golf ing little headway. The largest
announced that the reduction
[Playing with Mr. J. M. Goodeno on ball which makes a humming noise building in the compound, two would not be renewed at the expiry
the Deep Water Bay course on Sun when it is lost. If he could extend of the old agreement.--Reuter,
day, Dr. H. F. Sommers did the the idea to collar-studa, he'd make
his fortune. seventh hele (150 yards) in one.]
To roach the hole in one fity be, A perfect shot, no topping; From what we saw in Hongkong. But bear in mind that dentistry, yesterday, the femine, gender is Filla holes with ease by stop changing to the nuder.
'ping. So ссаве
this idle praise, forsooth;
storey affair with a galvanised fron roof, and side bailt up of xero- sene ting, was a raging inferno. The roof caved in within ten min- utes of the aending out of the Brigade Call, and it was obvious that the premises had been well alight before warning was receiv ed at the Fire Station.
The side of kerosene "tins pre- sented an awe-inspiring sight since the intense heat made them white, hot within a few minutes, and they were for all practical pur- poses, transparent!.
Danger Averted,"
+
MISS GOURLAY WINS CHAMPIONSHIP.
FINAL OF ENGLISH LADIES TITLE.
London, Oct. 1.
j
These developments show that in the not distant future the whole country will be thrown into a state of turmoil again. To the National Goverment the outlook is gruve in the extreme.
The first news of serious trouble. between Nanking and the Kuomin-
He was also the
movement in Dublin.
Man of Many Interests
Shab Wall is a relative of Nadir Khan, who is one of the contouders for the Throne. The communique
How busy a life the late Bar adds that delegations arriving at spent may be gathered from the Kabul from all over Afghanistan fact that he was the first chair express their fidelity to Nadir man of the Young Men's Friendly Khan-Router.
Society, 1879; founder (1882) and first Chairman of the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association; first President of the British College of
chure came to hand this morning INTERNATIONAL CLUB Physical Education; founder and
in an announcement that the Divisional Commander and Chief Lieutenant of Marshal Feng Yu- Asiang, General Sun Liang-sing, had dispatched a lengthy cable to the National Government
de-
TENNIS.
FRANCE LEADING BRITAIN WITH TILDEN.
famous
الله
The way things are going it. looks as if Russia and China will There is no cause for clapping: have to pay for this war them- For one who's "filling holes all selves,
iday,
Is so expert in every way, He's far too good such games to
play, Without stiff_handicapping!
"
☐ ☐
on
first President of the Lads' Drill· Association; ex-President of the Christian Union for "Social Ser- vice; first President of the British Institute for Social Service; As generally expected, Miss Bouncing Marshal Chiang Kai-
founder and first President of the Molly Gourlay, Camber Heath, shek, the President of the National
Duty and Discipline Movement; won the English Ladies' Open Government.
London. Oct. 11.
and Senator of the Parliament of Golf Championship to-day, defeat-
The cable, which declares war In a match at the Queen's Club, Southern Ireland. ing Miss Diana Fishwich, North on Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, isLondon, to-day, William T. Tilden. During the visit of the Queen Scotland'è birth-räte last year
record. Suddenly, fire broke out in Foreland, in the final by six up and tantamount to the commencement the
tennis of Rumania American
the lowest to England many was alley-way between the area involu.five to play.
The match was over thirty-six Government.
of hostilities against the National player, represented Great Britain, years ago, he acted as her cicerone, Evidently Scotland would rather ed and the adjoining building; a
playing the inaugural match behaving been for many years pre- nurse' bawbees than babies. tween the clubs of France and theviously "the friend and correspon- ginger-factory, and it blazed away holes, and was played at Broad-
Troops on the Move. : cluba of Britain,
Some of these bowlers get up in furiously for some ten minutes be-stone, Dorset.-Renter.
dent of "Cormen Sylva." fore the danger was realised. The
Extensive troop, movements are Tilden beat C. Boussus (France) An episode in his life was his the morning feeling like an alti Brigade responded by diverting a
taking place on both the Peking- 2-6, 6-3, 6-3.
election to be an Alderman of the tude record and go to bed at night hose playing into the heart of the
Hankow and Tientsin-Pükow Rail-
France icd at the end of the first first London County Council. His feeling like engine trouble. fire, and within a very short space
ways, indicating that the Kuomin-day by four matches to three-was the only name that both sides of time this fresh outburst was
The chief industry of Siberia chun troops, under Feng Yu-Reuters
could agree upon, and he was and Manchuria seems to be got got under
hsiang, intend to launch attacks
elected to be the first Chairmanting themselves prevented from on both railways simultaneously.
of the Parks Committee, but when fighting each other. The Kuominchun attacking force
the hour for his re-election came in Hupch is under the command
he was told he was not Progres- of General Sun Liang-sing, whose
sive enough" and he had to go. Second. Brigade of Kuominchun
Hie successor was a Labour mem- surprised the Nanking troops in
ber, who was chosen by a majority Hupoh by appearing in North
of one. Hupeh yesterday. War clouds
声 are thus looming in Hupeh and it: is anticipated that war on a large
PRINCESS ROYAL IMPROVING.
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ALL ANXIETY NOT YET REMOVED.
At about 3.80 a.m. It became clear that the Brigade were The gotting the upper hand. Hames on one side of the compound were gradually stifled, and the big building on the east side alone realated their efforts With the arrival of the Afe-float, however, control was gained, and shortly before four o'clock further Royal's condition has not yet scale will be started in the Pro-
danger was over.
No Casualties.
י,
A number of fokis were sleeping In the compound at'the time of -the outbreak, but no loss of life-
ia reported.
A humourous interlude was pro. vided by a fireman, who apparently
London, Oct, H. The Princess Royal is gradually improving according to an official bulletin issued this evening, which states: "Despite the progress of the past four days, the Princess
reached a stage which removes ail anxiety-Reuter.
!!
NEW MINISTER TO BELGRADE.
getting a hot cinder into his tor-MR. N. M. HENDERSON TRANS.
U.S. BANK PRESIDENT
SENTENCED.
FIFTEEN YEARS FOR FRAUD ATTEMPT.
Great Patriot.
New York, Oct. 11, - Lord Meath was a keen patriot vince in a few days' time.
Charles Delos, The Waggoner and was, a great belléver in the Fighting is in progress on the Bank President, of Telluridge, systematic teaching of patriotism Lung-Hai Railway between the Colorado, has been sentenced to in the schools. He lost a son in Kuominchun troops under Regi- fifteen years' imprisonment on the Great War, and he published mental Commander Liu Chun-wing pleading guilty to a charge of his reminiscences in 1923. He re- and Nanking troops under General fraudulent use of the malla. Tang Seng-chl. •
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"A writer says that "the U. S President is a stickler for the truth." Hooveracity"
The action of the foki who leapt 20 feet to give a warning of rob. bery was appropriately described as a plucky fent.
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"
The other night in Kowloon a resident' threw a flower, pot at a saxophone player. When ques- tioned by the police he pleaded that he thought it was a cat.
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Sometimes in an interview a journalist may discover the secret of success in a man's life.. On the other hand a detective does the trick.
With the drop in the dollar, Hongkong people will probably find that living within-an income is almost as hard as living without one.
MacWhirter says some men have a thirst for knowledge of, where to stop a thirat.
Many a fast stepper finds it hard to keep up with running expenses.
At least one member of the local police force has received Sincere appréciation of his services.
Reference in a contemporary's Khan's "Chambery Romance" was not what it seemed,
sticky about these stamp scandals headline to the ge
00:
There seems to be something
In Manila.
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ceived the G.C.V.O. in the same
-After all, it's only fair that Government servante should re- To various contributors--We The charge was framed in con- year...
The heir to the title is Lord ceive a smaller dollar, because had, up to this morning, received nexion with u scheme to obtain
references to the Home: Thousands Massing,
half a million dollars from six Ardee, eldest son of the deceased, they get more of 'em to the pound. 311
remitter feeling dollarous. General Sun Liang-sing's Kuo New York banks by means of who was born in 1869. Ho enterad
A London beauty specialist papers the Army, joining the Grenadier states that, sun-burning causes minchun units are massing. in forged authorisation thousands along the Lung-Hai Reuter's American Service. Guarda, in 1889, and was made roughness of the neck. That Himalayas is able to run 40 miles Railway and the opinion is 'con-
Brigadier General in 1918. He explains some of the feminine an hour. That's the kind of Httle. HM the King has approved the fidently expressed that the 14th ́
served In South Africa and in the "roughnecka" we've seen on recent lamb to follow Mary nowadays. appointment of Mr. Nevile Meyrick Nanking Division, under. Tang
Great War, and received the CB moonlight bathing picnics. Henderson, Envoy Extraordinaty | Song-chi, will meet a most formid-
decoration in 1918. He married A call was sent to the Kowloon and Minister Plenipotentiary at able opponent in Sun Liang-ding.
in 1908 Lady Alleen. Wyndham Fire Brigade station from Pitt Paris, to be Envoy Extraordinary. It is freely stated in Nanking
The wonther forecast up to noon | Quin," only child of the Earl of Street alarm at 2.46 am and this and Minister Plonipotentiary at offefal circles that Marshal Chiang to-morrow is as follows-North- Dunraven, and there are one son
(Continued on Page 14.)
Belgrade Britiah Wireleon. T
(Continued on Page 14.1
east winds, fresh fair.
and two daughters.
boots, ran into the road, boot in hand, filled it from a gushing water. main, and then returned to the ompound, satisfied.
The official report of the are *states:
FEARED FROM PARIS.
London, Oct. 11.
WEATHER FORECAST.
Adong-legged sheep in the
A bed which Queen Elizabeth A travel writer saya a wife and is said to have slept in has just a goat are the same price ia been sold to America. It Is. be Kurdistan. In Hongkong, the two lieved that there are now only sometimes marry,
about 474 of those beds left.W