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COMMUNIST RULE IN POSEH.
ALL TITLE DEEDS AND BONDS DESTROYED.
THREATS OF DEATH.
"Nanning, Dec. 4. A vernacular paper publishes the following information, gleaned from a refugee, of conditions at
Posch:
"“VICIOUS BILL OF
EXPENSES."
41 FOR INTERVIEWING A POLICEMAN,
A remarkable necount for ex- penses, &c., was produced at Stratford Police Court recently. when William Harvey Jolliffe, a builder, of High-street, Wanstendi, was summoned for stealing lead, value £3 58, the property of Claude Horace Clarke, a patent agent, of Wanstead.
Clarke stated that he had the lead on his roof replaced, and the old lend was left there. Later it was removed by Joliffe's men, who had been repairing the roof of the house next door.
Since its retreat from Nanning, the regions along the Posch River have been occupied by the 4th Battalion under Yu Chok-pik Thee engaged in a conflict with the 3rd Battalion stationed at Pingma. The fighting seemed to
In cross-examination, he admit be so serious that all the shopsted that he suk, he did not want Jolliffe there were closed" and business the dead, but its value.
These chaotic apologised for his men having was at a standstill. conditions are still prevailing. made a mistake, and he (Clarke) His ac- Communism has been adopted at asked for his expenses. Tung Lan and Fung San ainee count was as follows:
0 0 thelr occupation by Wai But-kyun, Interview with P.C. ... £1 the Communist lender. District Writing Insurance Co.
four times governments have been turned into A labourers and peasants' regime. Two interviews at their
office All guns and rifles owned by the people have to be handed over and Considering their reply
Litle deeds and bonds have been ordered to be destroyed by fre,
Revenue is levied according to the number of persons in a house and death is the iminediate lot of any one who dares to offer resist. aare. Besides, the Communists
seck in revenge their opponents all over the place, and slaurhter is the order of the day,
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Communication betweey in- ning and Posch is now, entirely blocked up and cargoes raznot. be shipped up. This
in shortage of supplies; and prices of all daily necessities such as kero- Hene oil, matehes, salt, etc. FLT Roaring skyward. Salt is about $1.00 K.T. per enity and the poor people there are "How groaning under such circumstaneer,
Opium shares a great part of the Business in the Porch area, but owing to the reecat political dis turbance coupled with the activi ties of the bandits, no cargo can be imported down river and business is in a ruinous state. The money market is extremely stringent and remittance is difficult. The Yu- nan and Kwolebow merchants are therefore refraining from coming to Posch for the time being.
Most of the Government instite- taze ami achools have been closed one after the other as a conse quence of shortage of funds, which have been taken by troops.
THE PRINCE'S ART AS SPEAKER.
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and what action to Ink with regard to their attitude towards elaim Reporting matters, by
telephone Writing police at Srat-
land Yard
interview with detectives Interview with detec- lives and men at Mr. Joffe's yard Interview with MA
Jollide Preparation of state- ment of accounts and
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writing and submit- ting to Mr. Jolliffe 2. To rost of replaging lead Total of above expenses £12
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1929.
LATEST ACCEPTED THE BOOTHS AND GEN.
TENDERS.
GOVERNMENT ISSUES LENGTHY LIST.
YEARLY CONTRACTS.
The Gazette notifies that the Government has accepted the following tenders:
Mr. Ngni Foon, $7.706.06 for con- structing a new painting shop Hung Hom.
HIGGINS.
THE VICTIMISATION CHARGES RENEWED.
General Higgins's statement that there is no "Vendetta" against the Booths in the Salvation Army is apparently not accepted by tho members of General Booth's family.
"The Booths have not publicly stated that they have been victim- at]ised," said one closely associated with the family to a Press repre- sentative recently "nor have they the state- been responsible for ments that have appeared in the Press.
Hing, steam
Mesra. Kwong Cheung $1.350 for the repair of launch No. 2 Police.
Measr. Kwong Cheung Hing, $960 for repair of steam launch No. 1 Police.
Tung Hing. Co.. $2,548.76 for Fire Brigade clothing 1930.
"But the facts of victimisation can be fully authenticated, and Mrs. Booth will myke a full reply,"
was added.
Yueng Hing, repair of boots for the Fire Brigade:-Boots without "General Higgins has said there hobnails of $1.20 per pair; topboots are no financial difficulties about without hobnails at $1.50
per the Army's affairs. He has not, pair.
however, produced any figures to Chan Sum. Meals to Chinese support his statement. O prisoners and witnesses at Police
Headquarter at 4% cents each. "A short time ago Mrs. Bouth Meals to deportees at Palier Head- | addressed a crowded and very quarters and Yaununti Police successful meeting at Fulham. A report of it was sent to the 'War Basin at 12 cents euch,"
Cry, but not a word of it was allowed to appear.
Measts. Sit Wing Sing, for the supply of labour and stores to the GBotanical and Forestry Depart-
ment during the year 1930.
"General Higgins states he has no knowledge of a petition. Yet a circular letter has been sent
The Very Idea!
A glimpse of civilisation which Fenimore Cooper did not foresee is (Oklahoma): vouchsafed by the Kingfisher Times
Sioux Tallment entertained. a few guests at his place Tuesday
evening and he appointed Elbert Ited Nose as director of the hand game for the evening's event.
Robert White Eyes and his wife, Mrs. Crook Nose, were at the bed. side of Mrs. Caddo Woman Wed- nesday.
Little Woman Cut Nose is visit- ing her sister, Mrs. Fighting Bull, who is sick in bed at the present time.
Alonzo, Lone Wolf Bushy has re- covered from his cold or grippe.
Mr. and Mrs. Sore Head enter- tained a few guests Tuesday,
Grandma Ghost Woman enjoyed the hand game last Friday at her
home.
Chief Mohlvod is planning to attend the green corn ceremony in the eastern part of the State with his son, Wild Cat.
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A widow brought her, small boy to the theatre for an engagement in a play for which a number of children were required.
"Has your son ever acted be fore 7" she was asked.
"No, sir," was the reply: "but! he spoke up beautiful at the in-1
Messrs, Tsoi Koi Kee and Sam Kee, for making tree pits, planting by Commissioner Harren to all
| divisional headquarters' instructing | quest."
officers not to sign I1,"
al
Writ Issued.
trees, and sowing seeds in situ during the year 1930.
Po Chun. Photographing vehicle, drivers and chair bearers copies each at 12 cents, susplej-
The writ on behalf of Generat Lous characters 1 copy at 12 cents,] aprisoners 4 copies each at 16 cents,] Higgins, asking for the transfer dead,badies 4 copies each at 16) to himself of the Army trust pre- rents, extra copies at 2 centa porty, valued at £2,000,000, held',
in the names of the executora" of the late General Bramwell Booth, has been issued,
beach.
Messrs Young Fat & Co., for the supply of black soil and turting to the Botanical and Forestry Depart- 156ment during the year 1930,
Mr. W. Mallinson Chairman said the summons must fail.
"I think this is the most vicious thing pit before me since 1 have been a justice of the Peace, and
that is 28 years."
He told- My, Jolliffe that he left the court without a stain on his hargeter, and allowed him £5 58. costs,
TOLLS AND ROADS. TRANSFER POWERS FOR
LOCAL AUTHORITIES,
Messrs. Tann Ying Fai, for the supply of flower pots during the year 1930.
32.20 per pair.
Yeung Hing, leather shoes at
Kwong Hing, brass dogs licence badges at $1.50 per 100.
WEST END LEASE.
JURY AND VERA COUNTESS
CATHCART'S CLAIM,
Before Mr. Justice Horridge and a special jury, in the King's Bench Division recently Vera Estelle Countess Catheart, of Bryanston- square, London, brought an action to recover £500 which she deposit- ed in connexion with a house in Lowndes-street, Knightsbridge.
The defendants "are Mr. Charles Gordon Rois, of Lowndes-street,
„A certificate having been receiv "d from the Chancery Commis-
loners, the writ was served.
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Genéral Booth's executors Hre Mrs. Booth, Commissioner Cather ine Booth. and Mr.. Sneath, n solicitor.
A legal representative of the Salvation Army explained that an interval must elapse before the cáže, came on in the Chancery Court,
Here lie the remains of a wire-
less" fan.
He is mourned by his many re-
lations.
He looked for gas leak while
smoking his pipe—
Aud was picked up by twenty-
one stations.
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From a Tokyo contemporary: Going down the line of thost to be Croix-de-Guerred, Clemenceau would stop, shake hands, and elap them on the backs, shouting:
A MONTH IN JAIL. "That's the way to do it!" Evidently France's version of| homes for heroes.
(Owing to a shortage of boys,
The action will be defended by girls are to be employed an mesacné Mrs. Booth and her co-executors,uera on the London streets.) in order to find out what is their responsibility in law.
WE SEE WHAT- WÊ SEE.
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In the House of Comenons, Cup: Lab P. MacDonald (C. Tale of Wight) moved the recond reading of the Tulls Bill, the object of which, he said, was to remove a form of ÚNEURING INSTINCT FOR THE | highway rubbery that had been al- |
lowed to exist for many years, Messrs. Graham, and Graham. radiance and joy at earth's heart RIGHT PHRASE.
There were still 88 toll bridges estate agents, of Molcomb-street,
aplendid determination to expresa in England and Wales, Twenty-S.W., and Messes. Castle and Comes to have broken loose in a We eyes that see this pomp and pageantry? Their defence is that the money was not deposited, as Lady Cath-Does autumn time make its lovely in his cart alleged, on condition that it appeal to us? Cairman
hould be paid to Mr. Bois if he "Vagabond Song" tells us---“-
lenne of obtained for her a house in Lownies-street, together with fixtures and fittings, but only ott condition that Mr. Bois assign
Royal Gallery of the Houses of four of these were situated on first- pany, solicitors, of Gracechurch-self in beauty. Have
In his speech to the V.C.'s at the Parliament the Prince of Wales again showed his unerring sense of fitness as to audience and occasion In uning familiar English col Joquialisms
He struck exactly the right wie In describing the one outstanding characteristic common to all of them. "It is recruited," he remark-
class roads and 18 were on scheduled and other roads. There were also 55 toll roads in England and Wales. He considered the time had come when they should transfer all these bridges and' roads to the local nu- thorities. The Bill gave 10 local authorities the power to serve notice on the owner of the bridge or in three months, and failing agree- ment the matter was to be settled by arbitration.
street, ER,
The scarlet of the maples enn sinko
1 me like a cry
Of bugles going by..
ed,,"from that Hmited circle of men rond to transfer the property with-ed to her the fixtures of the house. All that is demanded of us is
who see what is needed to be done and do it at once at their own peril: and having done it shut up."
These talls formed an obstacle No phraseology could have better expressed to a gathering of Eng-to and transport, which was now
a national question, and were lishmen accustomed as most of them are to bluntness of speech serious cause of delay and expense. what the Prince wished to convoy. and his gifts in this direction are not confined to naval and military Loccasions alune,
Sir K. Vaughan-Morgan 10, Fulham) apronded.
Mr. H. Marrison Minister of Transport) accepted the principle of the Bill. He said there could be no doubt that toll ronds and bridges
a serious inconvenience
When he opened the North-East Coast Exhibition at Newcastle in May, he refrred to the industries? WITH
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of the district. They have had a trafie, and in some enses a serious good deal of 'punishment in the last tax on the people, who used them, and they should be got rid of at few rounds," he said, "and they are not hit out of the ring, but are fight-the ing back gallantly with a good Northern punely”
Essentially Human.. "When times are bad--advertise" was his slogan on that occasion and he, followed it up by a blunt home truth.. in slightly epigrammatic form. "We fell behind. To admit it frankly is not pesalmism, but rather the first condition success," Here again, the Prince showed his instinctive knowledge of the best way to reach the hearts of his hearers.
of
earliest possible moment. Some amendment of the Bill, how- ever, would have to be made in Com. mittee. He welcomed a Socialistic ineasure of this kind coming from the Conservative benches, (Laugh- ter.).
clauses
He mentioned that the Govern- ment's forthcoming Road Traffic Hill would contain some dealing with this subject and he pointed out that it would be neces Mary for this Bill to be withdrawn if the Government Bill went into Committee first, as otherwise the toll chiuse in the Government men- sure would be out of order.
Major Carver (C,, Howdenshire) stated that there, was a bridge near Selby on which a toll of ninepence was charge.
He challed the doctors in a speech at the London Society of Medicine some years ago by saying that pro- bably the only reasons why there were no doctors in the Garden of
Mr. Duncan (Soe, Clay Cross)~ Eden was that. Eve obviously knew
The bridge itself in not worth nine- the familiar prescription-An apple alay keeps the doctor pence. (Laughter.) awny."
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Major Carver-1 agree it fa a At the 40th Anniversary Dinner | Bidy bridge. I live in a secluded of the Institute of Marine En- spot and anyone coming to see me gineers, he delighted the assembly has to pay a toll of ninepenice esch at the close of his speech by wish way. Members will agree that it ing the company Lang may yar is not worth that. (Laughter).
Mr. Mursh (Soc, Popular, South) hum reek," Scottish dialect for Long may your chinmes smoke," said that he had seen cabins of toll gate keepers which looked, like At a Civil Service Dinner, in a reference to the Toast list and the museums from the number of "Great batsmen who were to follow articles left by drivers of vehicles him," he declared, "I shall not who had no money on them to pay stand between you and the mighty the tolls. He had known a man give drives of Mr. Baldwin, or the late up his overcoat to cover an eight- cuts of Mr. Churchill-though per-penny toll and others left whips haps Cuts is hardly a fair word and knives to be redeemed next time to apply to the Chancellor of the fey came along the road.
The Bill was read a second time; Exchequer,"
The jury found that the £500 was handed to Measps, Graham and
Graham on the understanding that it would not be parted with unti) Lady Catheart had the lease, and I that it was, made equally clear 10 Messrs. Castle and Co. that those were the terms when they were handed the money.
To have
Attentive and believing faculties.
or beautiful and well-crinted To go abrand rejoicing in the joy
things....
To see, and hear, and breathe the
evidence
"Where are you going to, my
pretty maid?"
"Delivering messages, sir," she
wald.
"I'm finished now with the dafry
trude,
And prefer East Central to Big-
gleswade!"
Cries the messenger-boy with a
careless whistle:
"I'm much too important for
this, so Sis'll
Carry on with the work to the
smallest detail;
And, of course, the messages
will be Te-mail!"
Menai Bridge Witness-Pedes- tals walking here bad to scramble out of the way of the car.
- Wife at Willesden-Both my husband and the ledger gave me good hiding, and then they both desert me.
Witness at Acton--Owing to aba darkness I was unable to see what the noise w..
Witness at a St. Pancras Core- ner's Court-Everyone is going to the United States now because there is more money there than
Of God's deep, wisdom in the natural bre
world.
Mr. Justice Horridge said that he would hear legal arguments on the jury's firding at a later date. Monitor,
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MOVING
Willesden Magistrate-is your,
J. M. in the Christian Science,husband out of work? Woman- Ob, no, sir. He is able to get drunk every night...
Tottenham Magistrate to Boy-- This is no laughing matter. Boy -am crying, sir.
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FOR TO-MORROW,
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The title is self-explanatory for the bursic theme in the summary of a murder case as revealed through the eyes of a prosecutor, a defence lawyer and eventually a mysterious girl.
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"Thru Different Eyes," -based on the story by Milton Gropper, who also wrote the diologue in conjunction with Tom Barry, Is expected to be the most important. all dialogue drama of 1929 and is the attraction at the Queen's Theatre to-morrow.
Warner
Mary Duncan and Baxter are co-featured with the supporting cast a very formidable one, including Gravin Gordon, recent recruit from the Broadway legitimate slage, Natalie Moure- head, another stage recraft. Donald Gallaher, Sylvia Sidney and Fence Lakè. -
A.H. Van Buren, who staged many recent New York successes, nets in the enpucity of stage direc
"That's where our trouble started; she likes to sit around' the house all day Sunday, I like to get the little bus out."
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