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一拜禮 號一廿月十英港香
MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1929.
NON-STOP FLIGHT FURTHER LIGHT ON
RECORD.
OLD PIER.
BRITISH ATTACK TO BE MADE NEXT MONTH.
A FAIREY MONOPLANE.
London, Oct. 20.
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A British attempt upon the world's non-stop lying record (as forecast by the Telegraph when the news of Costes' remarkable reported) be under-
PEDDER WHARF IDEA DISCOUNTED.
SAID TO BE PART OF OLD GRANITE JETTY.
VIOLENT ACTIVITY OF MONT PELE.
TERRIBLE DESASTER OF 1902 RECALLED.
ENTIRE ZONE CLEARED
Paris, Oct. 20.
A violent recrudescence of ac- tivity of Mont Telè, the huge vol- cano in French New Caledonia, in the Southern Pacific, is reported
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A NEW CAMPAIGN FOR INDEPENDENCE.
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HEAVY PROGRAMME BEFORE CHRISTMAS.
FOR CLERK,
CONVERSION OF FUNDS OF H.K.V.D.C.
MR. JENKIN'S STRONG PLEA FOR LENIENCY,
LI CHAI-SUM RUMOUR. fght want by the Royal A SOME CHINESE NAMES. from the capital, Fort de Franes. MISSION TO AMERICA. Chanceller of the Exchequer, Mr. LAPSE AFTER 17 YEARS.
Shanghai, Oct. 20.
Anti-Nanking propaganda is gathering in strength and volume, and prophecies concerning the downfall of Marshal Chiang Kai- ahek, the President of the National Government, are rife:
It is suggested that the end of the Chiang Kai-shek regime is imminent, and it is obvious that very strong efforts are being made
to accomplish this,
Force.
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The pinne to be used will be the Thanks to an old resident of Fairey-Napier monoplane in which the Colony, further light is now Squadron-Leader Jones Williams thrown on the discovery of a and Flight-Lieutenant Jenkins heavy stone structure during flew non-stop to India in April | excavations on the site of the now last, and the same airmen will be Gloucester Building, at the june the pilots for the new venture. tion of Pedder Street and Des which aims at a six-thousand mile Voeux Road. flight from Britain to Africa; to be more precise, from Cranwell Aerodrome to Cape
Town.
South
In our issue of Friday last, we referred to the unearthing of the structure at a depth of some 14 feet, near which the remains of an Special modifications in the Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, it is
structure of the plane have been iron slipway were also found.. The hinted, is fully aware of the effected as the result of the experi-opinion was then expressed that seriousness of the situation, and is ence gained on the flight to Indin,the structure was part of the leaving no stone unturned to avert the most important development old Pedder's Whart, a view which disaster. It is, however, reported being an improvement in the was.supported by old residents in in Shanghai from different parts of petrol capacity of the machine.
preference to the theory that it the country that warlike opera- She will now carry four tons of was part of the Glenealy Nullah. tions against Nanking are increas.petrol which should be sufficient to ing.
carry her the full six thousand mile with a fair quantity' lying spare for possible emergency. The revolt of Government troops
It is hoped that Cape Town will at Wuhu a day or two ago has not be reached in fifty hours, in other had a very serious effect. Govern-words, that the plane will be cap- ment troops are in full control, able of maintaining an average speed of about 120 miles an hour. the rebel forcos have been driven The engine is a Napler develop away into the country. Further ment of the Schneider Trophy trouble is considered unlikely,
engine-British Wireless.
The Wulo Mutiny.
During the fighting in the eity,
xome damage was
caused to the!
Latest Theory,
Now, however, a correspondent who signs himself "Old Resident" comes forward with the opinion that the structure was part of an old solid granite jetty which was formerly situated opposite Black- head's shipchandlery store. He niso gives some interesting in- formation concerning Chinese diís- like of changing old name-places. His letter is as follows:
houses of foreign residents by INTERNAL TROUBLE IN mention wae made of Pedder's
fying bullets.-Naval Wircless.
Serious Development.
Shanghai, Oct. 20.
The situabion 318 between Chiang Kai-shek and his political opponents hae developed un-
favourably to Nanking during the week-end.
.sar
45
to
GERMANY.
NATIONALIST AGITATION
CONTINUES.
1 Berlin, Oct. 20. Police intervention in several.
In your issue the other day,
Wharf, connecting it with the heavy mass of granite discovered whilst making foundations for the proposed Gloucester Building. In point of fact, however, the Pedder's Wharf was entirely of wood.
Old Jetty.
old constructed
The stone now discovered no
hoats.
to-day.
Memories of the terrible erup- tion of Mont Pele in 1902 when the town of St. Pierre was wiped out and the whole of the population of 20,000 killed, is haunting the, refugees who are under orders to evacuate the entire zone,
The new outbreak is the most violent eruption for many years. A lurid columni of smoke and ashes is being continually hurled to a height of over four thousand feet,
JARDINE STEAMER
PIRATED.
Kiawo Held Up By Gang Wha Gain Booty of $6,000.
YANGTSZE OUTRAGE.
Haßkow, Oct. 20. The story of a daring pira- tical attack on a British steamer in the upper reaches of the Yangtsze was related to-day on the arrival of the Jardine Matheson 8. Kiawo, from Chungking*.
The vessel left down river on Friday, and soon after they were clear of Chungking, she was held up by a gang of pirates, who overcame any ten- dency towards résistance by, armed threats,
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They looted the ship's cabins and got away with booty valued at over $6,000. No European passengers were on board, and no-one was in- juredNangt Wireless.",
New and startling developments in the Philippines Independence movement are now reported by a decision by the majority party in Manila to send a mission to the United States to take up the fight at the coming session of Congress,
The mission is to be headed by Manuel Quezon, the President of the Senate, who is giving up an intend ed world tour which would have c. cupied him until 1931 in order to go to Washington and work for a definite solution of the Philippine question.
ASSEMBLY NEXT WEEK
London, Oct. 20. Parliament reassembles on Tuesday of next week when in the absence of Mr. Ramsay Mac- Donald, the Prime Minister, the
Philip Snowdon will act as leader of the House of Commons.
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald plans to So King-man was this morning leave Canada for Home next sentenced to 18 months' imprison- week-end and he should arrive in ment with hard labour for con- time to meet the House on Novem- version of money he should have ber 4th at latest.
paid on behalf of the Hongkong As the Parliamentary sittings Volunteer Defence Corps, and for beginning on the 29th area con-making use of a forged chop for tinuation of the session begun in receipt July last, both Houses will resume Criminal Sessions opened at the purposes, when the their tasks interrupted by the Supreme Court. The case was Summer Vacation without any heard by the Puiane Judge (Mr. ceremonial formalities.
The House of Commons has a considerable programme ahead of
Justice" Wood).
Aceused admitted the three
it. Many domestic measures, in-counts on the Indictment and on cluding the important Widows his behalf, Mr. F.C. Jenkin, In. To Meet in Hongkong,
Pensions Bill and the controverstructed by Mr. F.H. Loseby, of Mesars. Russ and Company, pleaded Quezon only recently left Manila sial Mining Industry Bill will be for leniency. The Crown case was to go to Nankin as the guest of the debated before Christmas, and conducted by Mr. H. K. Holmes. Nationalist Government, but the there is certain to be a lengthy Mr. Jenkin explained that he held new development has resulted in a discussion on several important decision on his part to forego the points of foreign policy, including the brief on behalf of Mr. H. G.. Nanking trip. He is therefore at the resumption of full diplomatic Sheldon, who was temporarily ab- present on the way to Hongkong relations with Soviet Russia, the sent from the Colony, He pleaded; from Shanghai, being due here naval disarmament policy, the guilty but asked for leniency,
The Crown Solicitor said that aboard the s.8. President Madison proposed treaty with Egypt, the this evening.
results of the reparations confer- accused entered the Government Here he will meet Manuel Roxas, ence, and the signature of the service in February, 1912, and was Wire-appointed orderly room clerk to the the Speaker, who is returning by Optional Clause.-British
Hongkong Volunteer the s.s. Porthos from the. United less,
Corps on June 25, 1916. States and Europe, being due in Hongkong to morrow." Quezon and
Forged Chopsi. Roxas will meet here and return to Manila together.'
The Decision.
It was on Monday last that the majority members of the Legisla tive in Manila stole n march on the Philippine Independence Com- mission, which is composed of the entire legislature including the minority members, by approving the sending of a mission to the United States."
The mission will probably leave the Islands in the first week of November and be at Washington when the winter Congress con venes in December.
Reliable reports point to dis- parts of the capital to-day mate satisfaction on the part of the necessary in order to cool the doubt formed part of the old stone subordinates of Marshal Yen Hai- ardour of political demonstrators, jetty situated opposite what was shan who are urging their leader has sharply drawn attention to the then Blackhead's shipchandlery to join the Kiominchun in the war disturbing element in the political store. It was solid granite, plat- on Marshal Chiang Kai-shek. situation in the shape of a Nation form, side steps, etc., and had a General Sheng Chen, the Garri-alist petition organised through- pair of iron davits for hoisting up
The Filipino Resident Commis. Commander of Tientsin and out the country
to demand
sioners at Washington has in- Peking, is reported have plebiscite on the Young Plan.. The name of Lieut. W. Pedder, explicitly declared his allegiance Participants at meetings or R.N., who was Harbour Master in while the hill in crumbling in formed the acting Senate Presi- to the cause of the Kuominchun. ganised by the powerful National-1841, was given to three places parts and heavy landslides have dent Sergio Osmena, that Congress at its next session will consider a The report adds that other subist group. endeavoured to form Street, and Pedder's Wharf. Only
namely, Pedder's Hill, Pedder's occurred. ordinates of Yen si-shan have processions contrary to official pro the second now remains.
In 1902, the disaster was mainly bill to grant the Philipines due to the sudden emission of à independence, joined in a long proclamation de-hibition. This called for prompt
dense black cloud of superheated nouncing, Marshal Chiang Kai-police action.
Result of Recent Vote. and kept the
and suffocating gases, heavily -shek and have temporarily held it situation well in "control, serious
charged with incandescent dust, Interviewed Tuesday Yen Hai-shan, who desires them to awalt further developmut.
Pedder's Hilt
מס
its
FRENCH SENATORIAL
ELECTIONS.
COCAINE AND OPIUM IN
'LARGE QUANTITIES.
Defence.
In the course of his duties he. had to attend to ordinary monthly accounts of expenditure and the three counts related to disburse- ments of money which the Corps. owed to different firms. Instead of paying the money he appropriated it to his own use. His Lordship Paris, Oct. 20.
would understand that there were The triennial elections for one-vouchers or receipts for such pay- third" of the membership of the Senate were held to-day. Up to the present only 81 results have been announced, revealing a move towards the Left.
The Radical Socialists have, gain- ed seven seats and the Independent Radicals have gained four seats. Reuter.
Later.
The final results show that the
ment which had to be rendered in order to supply acknowledgtments and a die or chop was made which was the subject of the second count.
His Lordship remarked he no ticed that the cheque was made out.. in favour of the Wing Yick and the dio referred to the Wing 'Shurm Steam Launch Company, which was h different company.
Mr. Holmes replied that they strength of the Republicans re-were different counts.
Replying to his Lordship, Mr. mains unchanged, whilst the Left) Republicans have lost seven seats, Holmes said that other forged dies one of which has gone to the Socia- might have been used but the counts lists.
were counta selected by the At- The remaining six seats are dia- torney General which he thought tributed among the Radical Re-fit to put in the indictment.
entirely clear. Additional charges Notable defents include those of could have been added. the Minister of Pensions, M. An teriou, and MM. Leon Blum and Francois Marsal-Reuter,
in
lists,
The.
back on the advice of Marshal disorder benig prevented.--Ret that Pedder's Hill-the eminence which moved with great velocity, Shanghai, Manuel Quezon said Publicans and the Radical Soçin counts did not make the matter
Chiang to EnlistTM 100,000.
It is of interest, also, to note
adjoining the Masonic Hall-was and discharged immense volumes the birthplace of your paper, the of volcanic sand which did not HUGE DRUG HAULS IN Hongkong Telegraph. It was here rain down in the normal manner, that the late Mr. Robert Fraser but swept down the side of the hill CALCUTTA.
Smith, its first owner, editor and like an avalanche, publisher, had his printing press, After leaving the crater it un residence and stables. The build-derwent enormous expansion and knife against the Kuominchus SLIGHT MOVEMENT TOWARDS ing has, however, now been pulled the deadly effect of the blast,
Authentic Nanking" sources aug-
gest that Marshal Chiang Kai-shek
la determined; upon war to the
THE LEFT,
Calcutta, Oct. 2. The police have seized cocaine and opium to the value of $5,000 which was being smuggled into the Calcutta district in the last few days..
He is now seeking to enlist 100.000 new troops in districts between Nanking and Hsuehowfu on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway. With this accession of strength and the numerous Divisions of troops call ed from the Provinces of Anhuf, Kiangsu, Fukien, Klangsi, etc., it is confidently elieved in Nanking One haul of two hundred ounces that Marshal Chiang Kai-shek will of cocaine, the most valuable con- overcome the Kuominchun. It is signment, was made on the Hoogly
River-Router. - pointed out that Nanking has! the advantage in aeroplanes ал machines of "war" such
as tanks, while confidence is felt in the foreign experts who are attached to the Central Govern ment Army in Nanking.
60 YEARS' SILENCE BROKEN.
GORELY VOLCANO RESUMES ACTIVITY,
Li Chai-um Return?
Marshal Chiang Kai-shek is engaged at present in making certain (by cash consideration) of the doubtful generals in districts under his nominal control. He that no fewer
Moscow, Oct. 20.
than seven vol.
It is reported from Katchalku
'occasioned some surprise, how cannes are now active in that re- ever, by calling during the week-xion.
instance i
The most notable and at the residence at Sam Yuen Hong of Marshai Li Chai-sum. Gorely which has been quiescent
Marshal Li who has been under for sixty years.-Reuter,
aurvelliance of
com-
KOWLOON STREET
ACCIDENT.
;
that the Philippine Legislature's decision to send him to Washing ton resulted from the American Senate's recent vote on the King amendment to the Tariff Bill. coupled with the statement of chairman Binghum of the mittee on territories and insular down, and Chinese type of houses which destroyed St. Pierre, is bepossessions, that he intended to erected on the site.
lieved by scientists, to have been bring the independence question due to the irritation of the mucous up at the December session. membrane of the respiratory pasa- ages by the dust, and the pre- opinion as to the outcome of the campaign. However, he expressed a better that the American Senate
A European lad, named Nicolas was disposed to view independence Borogo, aged 13, was involved in in a "more friendly light than
The Chinese are very conversa tive in the matter of names, which they dislike to change, as the follow. ing examples will show:
Old Names.
Blake Pier is still known as "Feta Pontau" (Pedder's Wharf);
The Hongkong Telegraph still goes by the name of "Simit Sun Man Ch" (Smith's newspaper);
The Daily Press is still called (Murrow's "Mala Sun Man Chi" nowspaper);
The Chine Mail continues to be called "Taksan
(Dickson's newspaper).·*
These three foreign names were those of the original owners of the newspapers named...
ANTI-FASCIST RIOT IN BRUSSELS.
THIRTY CHARGED AND ONE SENTENCED.
Brussels, Oct. 20.
ence of poisonous gases. ⠀
The phenomenin was unknown prior to the ghustly, tragedy, and is now known as the "Palean type" of explosion-Renter
AN AID TO PEACE:
OTHER PEOPLES
Lord
Quezon refused to hazard an
EUROPEAN LAD INJURED IN COLLISION WITH "BUS,
Dies in Possession.”
His Lordship:-He is charged with possesion of the die on or about May 4. Was that die still in his possession at the time of his arrest Yes The die was pro- duced, Certain chops were found and accused admitted them.
So that the chop was in his pos session from May until the time of
his arrest?—Yes.
His Lordship. The receipts- were uttered to the Hongkong Goy ernment 7-Yes jenie
Pleading for leniency, Mr. Jen-
17 years service with the Gov- ernment to his credit which meant that he had become pensionable
anytime since 1916, when the vice an accident in Nathan Road, Kowkin pointed out that accused had." president broke a tie and passed loon, yesterday, as a result of the Clark amendment, which died which he was injured on his army
and the right side, and was In the House.
In a speech to the Philippine moved to the Kowloon Hospital. Independence Commissioni
in'
If a conviction was rogistered: he
The facts, as, reported to the would lose that pension: Accused
REMEMBRANCE DAY.
Specially Rewarded in 1926, Accused rendered signal service during the strike of 1925 and was mentioned specially by Government in that connexion and Government fewarded him for that good ser- vice.
L
our licensed motor driver employed by Office of the Corps and Lleut. Col. Sun Man Chi LORD METHUEN ON KNOWING: Manila last week, Senator Osmena, police by Chung Wong-yam, had been with the Headquarter
said:"We cannot renounce national aspirations, our natural the Ching Bus Company, are that L. G. Bird, the Commandant of and inalienable right to demand he was driving his bus, No. 138, the Corps, bad attended Court and London, Oct. 20. that we be free. We have cotab-long Nathan Road at about 3 p.m. was prepared to say that accused Methuen, the veteran shed hore a government stable when Borogoff, who was riding had been held in highest regard by came out from be- the military staff and by the British Field Marshal, presiding and complete in every detail and pedal cycle. yesterday at the British Legion rau by Filipinos, except a few hind another bus with the inten- Colonel himself, Conference, gave his reasons for Americans in the government, in tion of passing it The bus being strongly in favour of pil- accordance with the requirement caught the lad a glancing blow, grimages to the battlefields.
which threw him to the ground. fixed in the Jones Law, A knowledge of people of other
We believe we have complied The cycle was completely smash nations, he said, would conduce to peace more than anything else. with the requirertent of the Jones ed When he was Military Attache in Law which contains a definite pro- mine and a pledge' that we shall Berlin, he was as fond of the
At all material times accused Thirty Belgian, Italian and Hun Germans as he was of the English Le given our freedom. We have
was living on alwago of roughly people, and in time of sorrow he made great progress under this very surprised. It is understood
$140 a month. He was a married Pleading guilty to a charge of garlan Communists were brought received from them sympathy, law but notwithstanding euch pre- that the two conferred for several larceny of $9 from a pedestrian in up in court to-day, charged with which he would never forget. gress we are still clamouring for
man with five children. He, him our freedom.
self, suffered from Hiness and his hours. What transpired at the Shanghai Street, a Chinese wns various offences in connexion with British Wireless
wife was also ill. That cast upon mecting has not been revealed, but sentenced to three months hur the anti-Fascist demonstration on
Appeals for Unity,
his pocket a greater strain than it It is strongly rumoured in Nanking labour by Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith Friday, when the Italian Legation
London, Oct. 20, would bear. In addition he was circles that Marshal Chiang Kai-et the Kowloon Magistracy this was bombarded, with
When the shout went up that a "It seems vory opportune, how-
On the evening of Armistice valled upon to move because he ahck proposes to restore Marshal morning...
third-class phesenger had. jumped ever, that we again reinvigorat LI Chall-sum to, favour in return
again address the Festival of of moving pot a further burden The police were obliged to fire overboard, the launch Nanchung, cur campaign for Independence bc Day, the Prince of Wales will could not pay his rent and the cost over the heads of the demonstra- which was in the middle of the cause the signs are auspicious Empire and Remembrance arrang upon his pocket. Those were the harbour yesterday, stopped and a The recent vote taken by the United by the British Legion at the frcumstances of his fall which re- tors before peace was restored.
All except M. De Bocek, the Bel- search was made. It proved ed States not only was a surprise Albert Hall
sulted-in his appearance before the glan secretary of the Young Com- fruitless, however. Suicide is aup-but a good indication that thereThe Prince, who is Patron of Courtne munists League, were discharged. posed. The report of the occur are not a few who would stand in the Legion, addressed a similar Mr. Teukia continued he would. De Boeck was sentenced to a short rence was handed in by Cheung our favour if the problems gathering last Armistico Dayak that his previous exemplary. term of imprisonment-Reuter Chui, a seaman on the launch.
British Wireless, (Continued on Page 12.)
"(Continued on Page: 4)
the 'strict the Nanking Government was also
Kuominckun..?
for assistance in the war with the another proclamation to be issued Marshal Chiang will review the Marshal; Chiang Kal-shek's reasons which render it imperative ultimatum, tantamount to declars that the Kusminchun should be tion of war on the Kuominchun, is suppressed. in the course of preparation. It General Tang Seng chi arrived consists of over 2,000 words. In at Chengehow yesterday.
bricks and stones, windows and doors being emashed.
PRINCE TO SPEAK AT THE
“ALBERT HALL, ́=