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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1929.
HONOURS DEGREES GUNMEN PLUNDER VICTORY FOR DIET
AWARDED.
TO FIVE LOCAL ENGINEERING GRADUATES.
VARSITY SUCCESSES.
We are informed that the Senate of the University of Hongkong has, on recommendation of the London Assessore, awarded Honours De grees to the following Engineer- ing Graduates:
Chan Kul-chuap (1st class honours).
H. T. M. Barma (2nd class hon- ours).
H. Braga (2nd class honours).. Kwa Soen-bwie (2nd class hon-
cars).
SILK HONG.
DARING AFFAIR AT SHANGHAI.
FIFTY PEOPLE HELD UP BY GANG OF SEVEN.
OVER $5,000 IN LOOT.
Shanghai, Nov. 1. "With 20 employees and more than 30 customers in the place, a silk hong in an alleyway off Canton Mok York-chan (2nd class hon-Road early last evening was invad- ours).
The system of sending Finaled by a gang of seven men, five of Examination papers and record of whom were armed with pistols. laboratory experiments and draw ing office work done during their COUTAB by candidates for the Engineering Degrees to London Assessors (who are Examiners in the Engineering subjects in the London University) has always been followed by the Board of the Faculty of Engineering in the University of Hongkong.
It is satisfactory to notice that every year since the first Final
The entire 50 or more persons present were forced to line up against a wall whilst the robbers, guarding both the front, and rear doors, nabbed the cash drawer and looted the place of silk goods.
The robbers obtained a total of $2,660 in cash and silk piece goods valued at near $2,500.
Motor Truck Employed? It is believed that the gang em- Examinations were held in 1916ployed a motor truck or other big the London Assessora have award-conveyance as it would have been ed Honours Degroes.
difficult for them to have carted away auch a large quantity"of silk in rickshas without arousing sus- picion.
COMMONS DEBATE
ON RUSSIA.
(Continued from Page 1
Trade Prospects.
The looted shop is at 74 Kwong
IN POLAND?
QUARREL WITH DICTATOR INTERRUPTED.
USELESS BICKERING.
Warasw, Nov. 5. Unexpectedly the quarrel be- tween the Dist and the Dictator
the ended quietly,
interven- tion of the President preventing a clash,
M. Moscicki alded with Marshal "ad- Pilsudski but decreed an journment of Parlament for a month, thus circumivonting the ction by M. Daszyński. President of the Dlet, who I defiance of Pilsudski convened the Diet for to-day, taking alaborate precau- tions to prevent another military irruption by giving instructions and that only ticket-bearers official personnges be admitted.
Later.
M. Daszynski, the Speaker, has declared
President that the adjourned Parliament at his sug gestion. The Deputies describe the adjournment as a victory for Parliament contending
that Marshal Pilsudski hesitated, to bring matters to a head.-Reuter.
TO SUPERVISE FOOD PRICES.
Sung Lee alleyway, a short dis-CONSUMER'S COUNCIL TO BE
CREATED.
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London, Nov. 5.
In the House of Commons, Mr.
tance off Canton Road. The rob bers entered the place at 7.15 pm: but it was not until more than one hour later that the employees of the hong had the courage to go to the nearest police station and re- W. Graham, President of the port the robbery. In the mean- Board of Trade announced that time the robbers had ample, time the Government proposed to ask in which to escape.
Parliament early next year to create a Consumers' Council as a successor to the Food Council which, since 1925, has been endeavouring, although without statutory powers, to supervise the prices of foodstuffs.,
Shop Crowded.
The hong was crowded at the hour of the robbery and business was brisk. One by one they filed into the shop, no particular notice being taken of them.
London, Nov. 5. In the course of the debate un Russia, Mr. Henderson referred to the report of the Trade Delegation which recently visited that coun- try. He pointed out that the Com- mittee was satisfied there was a great volume of business avail able for Great Britain subject to diplomatic, recognition "being afforded and if arrangements could
When the entire seven were with- be made for the financing of the business on long term credits.in, at a signal from a man believed.
The Consumers' Council will be There had been a good deal of to have been the leader, they aud-empowered compulsorily to obtain denly produced landed pistols and the required information and the miaapprehension on one point. I ordered everyone in the shop to Government will be empowered to want to say emphatically," said remain quiet and not raise the deal with traders. who refuse to Mr. Henderson, "that the Govern alarm,
accept the views reached by the iment will not recommend Parlin-
Two members of the gang im-Government after considering the mediately stationed themselves at recommendations of the Con- the rear door, whilst others guard-sumers' Council.
ment to pledge the credit of the British taxpayer to pay Joana claimed by the Soviet Gover- ment.".
Mr. Henderson quoted Article ransacked a rear room where ther
ed the front door while the sup- The activities of the Consum- posed leader. and other man
Counell wil not merely
premises for they spent no time in locating the cash drawer,
Threat of Death,
the necessaries of life.--
CINEMA ACTOR'S
DEATH.
16 of the treaty signed on 8th Oc money was kept. The robbers extend to foodstuffs, but will cover tober, 1924, which deals with pro-were apparently familiar with the Router. paganda and with our position in regard to propaganda. We stood by the declaration which we made in 1924 to the effect that we could not allow any direct interference from outside in British state affairs and would insist on the promise made by the Soviet Goy- ernment to refrain from any ac tions liable to endanger the tranquility or prosperity of the British Empire, and to restrain from such acts' all orginators of Communist scheme,
7.
Position Made Clear.
In the meantime all of the assist- ants and customers were being carefully guarded and warned that they would be shot if thy made an outcry. After rifling the cash. drawer the robbers turned their at tention to the silk goods of the shop. They proved to have good judgment as they took only the choicest materials,
Two members of the gang were That is, in effect, an undertaking seen to enter rickshas but it is be- that Soviet propaganda will not believed that this was only a ruse tolerated in any form. He added and that when they had rounded that it had been plainly stated to the corner they entered a motor car
or truck. the Soviet representatives that the Communist Internationale would be regarded by the British Govern- ment as an organ of the Soviet Gov-a ernment.
He believed the House had re- ceived a mandate for the reatora- tion of diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia. In seeking to give effect to that mandate, the Govern- ment had honoured the conditions relating to propaganda and other matters. The palley which he in- vited the House to support was' conceived in a spirit of peace and co-operation. British Wireless
PREMIER'S VISIT TO AMERICA.
(Continued from Page 1.) United States three years ago, but the visit could not usefully have taken place before now.
The robbers, before departing, took the precaution of taking along receipt from the hang purport- ing to show that the goods in their posssession had been pur- chased and pald for.-Shanghai Times.
FUTURE STATUS OF BRITISH INDIA.
¡Continued from Page 1)
attend a conference, it was very desirable to re-state clearly what was the purpose of Great Britain in regard to the Government of India.
Government
NORMAN TREVOR DIES
IN ASYLUM.
Hollywood Oct. 31. Norman Trevor, noted character actor of the motion pictures, died here to-day.
of
member In 1911 Trevor was a
the British Olympic team. Death came at the State hospital for the insane at Norwalk where Trevor was suffering from a brain ailment. United Press,
FORMER PORTUGUESE
PRESIDENT.
DEATH OF DI JOSE DE ALMEIDA.
Lisbon, Oct. 3h Dr. Antonio Jose de Almeida. former President of Portugal, died here today at the age of 63.
He was President from Aug. 6, 1919. to Aug. 5, 1929. He. was succeeded by Dr. M. Teixeirą Gomez-Associated Press,
COCHET'S VISIT:
MESSAGE OF THANKS TO HONGKONG.
It was ascertained that the Commission were verac from being associated in any corres- pondence in which this reaffirms- tion should appear, ahil the Mr. Ramsay MacDonald had Government doded that it should earned the gratitude of all parties.be made in an independent docu-
The following telegram addressed He had taken
were to the President and Members of the first possiblement. The
that the Statutory Com-the Hongkong Lawn Tennis Asso moment to make the visit and had aware acted throughout as the Premier mission did not wish to be 30 ciation was received this morning of Great Britain and not as a party associated, but they did not think from the team of the Racing Club that precluded them from making de France: "Please accept all our the reaffirmation. They had the thanks for the wonderful reception deepost anxiety to do nothing we received in Hongkong." which would any way prejudice the position of the Statutory Com mission.
leader,
Mr. Lloyd George also cordially congratulated Mr. MacDonald on the success of his tour, saying that he was fully assured of the inestim- able value of the contact thus ea- tablished with the United States.—
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MORE RAIN.
In the course of the debate, Lord Birkenhead charged the Gov ernment with yielding to the threat Since the retirement from the of an Indian campaign of civil that the anticyclone has passed The Royal Observatory, reporta disobedience at the end of the year, N. L. Sparke, of Shanghai, has Lord Passfield declared that the Japan and another appears to be into the Pacific to the east of been elected Vice-Chairman of the Viceroy was not announcing a new developing over North China, Hongkong Branch of the Surveyors2 Lastitution, of which the Chairman police but was explaining the old. Moderate to fresh monsoon will in Mr. G. W. Grey (Fellow), and He added that it was never out of the Hon. Secretary, Mr. T. B. time to seek appeasement, even if prevail along the China coast and over the North China Sea. The Mark, O.B.E., R.E. (Professional Reuter and British Wireless; pity
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