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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1929.
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PRETTY CEREMONY AT ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH.
Manager.
E. J. R. Mitchell, H.K.V.D.C., brother of the bridegroom..."
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Phato shows reinforcements recently arrived from the North marching through the streets of Canton. On the left in the Red Cross detachment; note the rolled-up stretchers carried by the men.
LORD BLEDISLOE'S ENSLAVEMENT OF
NEW POST.
GERMANY.
APPOINTED GOV-GENERAL OF NEW ZEALAND.
BILL DEBATED IN THE REICHSTAG.
BYRD'S FLIGHT TO
"SOUTH POLE.
ADVENTUROUS TRIP BEGUN YESTERDAY.
AN AGRICULTURALIST. GOVERNMENT'S VIEW. NEW YORK IN TOUCH.
Bulin, Nov. 29. The Reichstag to-day debated
"New York, Nov. 29. The New York newspaper re-
London, Nov. 29. Fis Majesty the King ha avoved the appointment of Lorthe Nationalet Bill "against the tort that the American Antarctic Bledisloe ns Governor-General of New Zealand in succession to Senslavement of the German Peo-explorer, Commander Byrd, start- Little America, in "the Antarctie, Charles Fergusson, who has held ple," which provides for the reed this morning from his base at pudiation of all internationa- ! on an eighteen hundred mile the position since 1924:-Reuter.
Lord Bledisloec, formerly Sir tional treaties and agreements
Commander Byrd, is flying a big Charles Bathurst, is an agricul concluded by Germany since the light to the South Pole and back. tural authority as well as a states-War.
three-engined aeroplane and is Dr. Curtius, the new Foreign accompanied by Bernt Balchen as Born in September 1887 and Minister "after announcing that pilot, Harold June as wireless educated at Sherborne, Eton and the Government' expected the re-
operator, and Captain Ashley University College, Oxford, he was jection of the Bill and stating that McKinley as photographer. called to the Bar in 1894 and there would be a referendum on They expect to be in continuous practised as a Chancery barrister December 22nd. said that the wireless communication with a and conveyancer for sixteen years. Government regarded the Bill as New York newspaper throughout In 1910, he was elected Conserva- an attack against the authority the flight which it is expected will tive M.P. for S. Wilts and was of the State and the Government's he concluded within twenty-four made a member of the Council of foreign policy.
hours-Reuter's American Service, the Duchy of Lancaster.
man,
י
Discussing that foreign polley, Meanwhile, in the development Dr. Curtius ridiculed the Nationa of his Gloucestershire estato, Lydney Park, he had made a close list suggestion that it was based
OF
study of farming problems and inapon a recognition of Germany's CENOTAPH CEREMONY.
that the 1915 he became President of the war guilt, declared Central Chamber of Agriculture. Government had repeatedly re Next year when a Ministry of Food padiated the allegation of Ger- LOCAL SCOTS LAY WREATH
ON MONUMENT. was created to cope with the dif-many's war guilt and stood by that ficulties caused by the war in the repudiation. maintenance of food supplies in Dr. Curtius bitterly attacked'
Officers and members of St. Britain, he was appointed its Par- the author of the demand for Andrew's Soclety observed St. liamentary Secretary.
referendum against the Young Andrew's Day by laying a wrenth From 1917, when he was Reparations Plan.
on the Cenotaph this morning. knighted (K.B.E.), until after the " freeing Germany from the Those present assembled at the end of the war he was chairman etulms of Versailles were ap alm- entrance to the Hongkong Club of the Royal Commission on Suple, Dr. Stresemann would not and walked to the Cenotaph two Supplies and Director of Sugur have been obliged to suerince him- deep. The wreath was laid by Mr. Distribution. In 1918 he was self for this purpose."--Renter. raised to the peerage and was afterwards president of the Buth! and West of England Agricultural; Society, the British Dairy Farmers Association, the Central Land- owners! Association and the Agricultural Seetion of the British Antiociation, and chairman of the Farmers' Club.
In 1924 on the formation of the Baldwin Conservative Government! he was appointed Parliamentary] Secretary of the Board of Agricul
CABINET SALARY
COMMITTEE.
PRESENT SCALES TO BE "REVIEWED.
tare and shortly afterwards made] THE 1920 PROPOSALS.
a tour of Canada and the U.S. to study agricultural conditions there. One of the proposals that he put forward on his return wan for the formation of a nationali park for the preservation of the
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'London, Nov. 20.
A. K. Ferguson, the Chieftain.
Those present, in addition to the Chieftain, were Mr. R. M. Dyer, Mr. B. Wylie, Mr. R. Sutherland, Mr. E. M. Bryden, Mr. P. Tød, Mr. K. E. Greig, Mr. K. S. Morrison, Mr. A. Ritchie, Mr. H. R. Forsyth, Mr. P. W. Ramsay and Mr. G. Danean.
THE C.E.R. DISPUTE ANTICLIMAX.
(Continued from Pagė 1.).
the State are to be reviewed.
The salaries of the Ministers of posals with reference to the Sino-
Soviet dispute are so obscure and The Premier, in a written reply complicated that it is impossible to a Parliamentary question, saya
wild life of the British countryThe proposes to set up 4. committente ascertain even in authoritative
side.
•
No Appeal Made,
the
representing all parties to con-of what it happening.
quarters a clear and definite idea "The idea was not taken up then, sider and report upon the matter. but in 1929, after he was out of He suggests the committee should office owing to the replacement of take the report to the committee of the Baldwin Cabinet by that of Mr. 1920 and consider whether it re
It can, however, be reaffirmed MacDonald be revived it, making quires any modification in the light that China has not sought anyone's the definite suggestion that of the circumstances of to-day. intervention and has not yet made aron of 36 square miles in the
The Committee of 1920 recom-an appeal of any kind to Forest of Dean, n region of
mended that the Prime Minister's League of Nations. Gloucestershire belonging to the
salary should be raised from five It is learned however that in- Crown, should be reserved for the thousand to eight thousand pounds formal conversations are now in ригрове. He found ready and that the salary of each of the progress between the Fact Powers pathy and
support from the two Law Officers should be reduced regarding the possibility of draw- Labour Government and in October by two thousand pounds.
Russia's and China's attention to last, a committee was appointed to:
The Committee also recommend-their obligations under the Kellogg Inquire into the proposal.
ed the following scale for Mini-] Pact. siers: Twelve at five thousand pounds, four at three thousand pounds, six at two thousand pounds, eighteen at fifteen hundred pounds, and three at one thousand pounds.
All Cabinet Ministers, irrespec- tive of thair office, were to receive five thousand pounds yearly.- British Wireless. ·
ARMS LAW BEING AMENDED.
Continued from Page 1.)
COSTES' RECORD.
It is not clear on whose authority the feelers for re- opening direct negotiations be tween Russia and China have been put out-Reuter.
More Air Raids.
Tokyo, Nov. 20. A message from the Rengo. Agency's Harbin correspondent states that nineteen Soviet nero- planes again raided Buchatu this
afternoon, bombing the station and a munition depot.
One bomb struck a powder dump, resulting in a big explosion and a conflagration.
Four other planes attacked the
attendants were Miss Marjorie Lammert and Miss Patricia Mitchell (cousin and not a question of whether the nices respectively of the groom), vessel in question, is Chinese or A very pretty wedding was who wore dresses. of white net non-Chinese but whether it is of a
certain type solemnised at St. Joseph's Church, and carried bouquets of
The title of the office of Cap- Garden Road, yesterday, the con- peas, tracting parties being Miss
Mr. G. P. Lammert, junior, tain Superintendent of Police is NEARLY 8,000 KILOMETRES IN
STRAIGHT LINE. Doreen Byrne, daughter of Mr. (cousin of the bridegroom) dia about to be changed to that of Inspector General of Police. Sec and Mrs. D. J. C. Byrne of charged the duties of best man. tion 7 of this Ordinance sub-
Paris, Nov. 29. Calcutta and Mr. Alan Stephon
The French Aero Club has After the ceremony, a reception stitutes the new title throughout
held at Mitchell, son of the, late Mr. E. was
officially recorded the distance in Tregunter the principal Ordinance, W. Mitchell of Hongkong and Mansions, where a host of friends
Section 9 inserts in the principal Astraight line flown by Costes and Mrs. M. S. Mitchell of No. 9 gathered to wish the happy pair Ordinance, a new section 33 which Bellonte, from Le Bourget to the Tregunter Manelons.
provides that the various officers neighbourhood of Taitaihar, as Tho Rov. Father Parisotti Later Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell of the police force not below the 7,905,140 kilometres, a world officiated, and the bride, who left for Shek-O and Fanling, rank of Assistant Superintendent record-Router.
have ali looked charming in a dress of where the honeymoon is being shall
the powers) the brida'a travelling conferred
Inspector white satin, einbroidered with spent,
Bankruptcy notifications state silver beads, long tulle veil, and attire being.a bottle green print-General of Police. by or under the that a supplementary dividend of carried a bouquet of white rose-ed ring velvet dress with coat and principal Ordinanco,
six canta per cent. hus been declared The commencement of the the case of Fung Tat-hang, a buds, was given away by Capt. Ihat to match,
Ordinance is postponed until the third dividend of $20 per cent in 1st January, 1980, because that is the case of A, Kwai and Co., and the report that Mukden was negotia- the day when he new tie of be a second dividend of $10 per cant ting with Moscow-Reiters Captain Supertendent of Police in the case of Fung Shu-kal.
health and happiness.
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town of Yalu which is half-way They bombed passenger and goods trains and caused severe damage.
The Chinese are demoralised and ow engaged in a hurried retreat, -Reuter
Dr. Wang's Dental,"
Nanking, Nov. 29. Dr.-C. T. Wang to-day denied
between Manchull and Harbin,
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