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·拜禮 號七廿月正英港香MONDAY.
JANUARY 27, 1930.
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EXCITING BOMBAY NAVAL OPINIONS HOOLIGAN ATTACK BRITAIN'S NEW AIR PET DOG CAUSES
CONFLICT.
TWO MEN SCUFFLE" ON
A FLAGPOLE.
INDIA'S INDEPENDENCE DAY
CELEBRATIONS."
EXCHANGED.
CARE DEVOTED TO AGENDA
OF CONFERENCE.
HOLIDAY RUMINATION.
London, Jai, 26. Although to-day, has produced no news of any special develop-- ments in connexion with the Five Power Naval Conference, it can ba
legates have not been idle.
FEARED.
STAR THEATRE SEEKS POLICE. AID,
PROBABLY MUCH ADO ABOUT
VERY LITTLE. :
EXPERIMENT.
MACHINE SPECIALLY BUILT FOR AIR SURVEYS.
MINISTER'S FLIGHT.--
London, Jan. 26. An entirely new development in aviation, the construction of a spe cla} surveying machine, which' om-
TROUBLE.
CAPTAIN OF LINER PROSECUTED.
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NO PERMIT FOR ANIMAL “SMALL AS RAT."
NO SERIOUS TROUBLE. taken for granted that the de- FIGHT IN PEKING ROAD. bodies all the latest devices for this "PLEA OF IGNORANCÈ,"
Bombay, Jan. 26.
The observance in Bombay of "Independence Day" finished up with an exciting conflict be tween two large mobs, one of them comprising the supporters of the National Congress and the other being made up of Communista. The fight seemed
fierce and bitter, but while there were hard knocks given and taken, there.were apparent ly no fatalities...
The week-end has enabled them tive leisure to the conversations to give consideration-in-compara- and informal exchanges of opinion they have had among themselves during the past few days, and is | adjust their views pecordingly.`
Much importance fa attached by all the delegations to the work of organising the sequence
of the problems with which the Con- ference will have to deal in their turn, and it is generally felt that the time devoted to evolving a sound agenda will not he wasted singe
should be realised.
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special purpose, has just been disclosed.
EIELSON'S PLANE FOUND A WRECK.
NO NEWS OF FLIER OR HIS COMPANION.
HOPES STİLL STRÖNG.
'Seattle. Jun. 26. The United States Army Signal Corps stationed at Fairbanka, Alaska, reports that the wreck- age of Lieut. Bielson's acroplane has been found.
DUNLOP is need in Davis Cup Tournament,
$10. PER
at all stores.
DOZ.
social diacomt for aluba,
MUKDEN ON HORNS OF DILEMMA.
| NANKING AND MOSCOW- MAKE DEMANDS.
SEEMING ULTIMATUMS FROM BOTH QUARTERS.
SPECIAL ENVOY SENT.
Shanghai, Jan. 26.
panion. Borland; and presumably The dilemma in which the
No further details are avail- A fight between a Chinese
Capt. R. G. Carvey, master of able, and there is no news of
Lieut. Etelaon, or of his com clerk living in Canton Road and Lord Thomson, the Secretary of the
6.3. President McKinley Theatre yesterday apparently.
ticket collector of the Star State for Air, and Mr. F. Montague, appeared before Mr. Whyle Smith they escaped from the crash un-Mukden Government finds itself to following Nanking's repudiation"
of the Habarovsk Protocol and gave rise to a fear that the the Under-Secretary for Air, made at the Kowloon Magistracy this hurt and have been trying
a trial fight in the machine yester-morning on a summons reçusing reach civilisation over the ice. premises would be attacked by a
duy.
him of having landed a dog in ports reaching Moscow nine or Soviet Government which has.
According do unconfirmed re- the immediate response of the gang of hooligans. The man-
It is the first neruplane specially hongkong without a permit fromien days ago, Eielson and his com- presented Chang Hsueh-liang agement at all events com-designed for air surveying, and it
near the with a fresh ultimatum, de- municated with the Police ask- ing for the protection of their has been built by the Gloster Air the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, panion are both safe
craft Company for the Aircraft The defendant admitted, the Anguema River, some 120 miles manding adherence to the Pro- lest their
from North Cape, Siberia. employees
fears Operating Company, which has al- charge, but said that he did not
ready made definita plans for the know the dag was on board until ordered a thorough search of this the middle of February, is The Government Immediately final conference not later than tocol, and the holding of the
This remarkable situation was napping hf an immense area of he was informed by the police; { vicinity but so far nothing definite shown by the arrival in Shang.. The trouble started when a pro-
It may well save much disclosed during the bearing of a hitherto unexplored territory in If he had known it was on board has been achieved. cession of mill-hands, acting under tabour later on,
case before Mr. Whyte Smith at Northern Rhodesia.
and had known it was an offence, the auspices of the Red Flag Union,
The Kowloon Magistraes this The neroplane is so constructed he would not have allowed it to be swept down upon the monster de
The Prime Minister" to-day morning when the clerk and the that every part of the world will taken ashore by the owner, a lady, monstrations organised by the Bom-entertained the Dominions de theatre, employee were charged become accessible to the air sur- was only a small dog, and could buy Branch of the National Con legates at his officiul country re- with behavia in disorderly veyor, since its reserve of power easily be stuck away in a muffler
ress in support of the Independence, Chequers, and during the manner by fighting in Peking is such that operations to the ex- or even in a pocket,
afternoon, Mr. H. L. Stimson, the Rond. dence for India movement.
His Worship said he thought the tont of 30,000 square miles are head of the American delegation,
The first defendant, the clerk, I made possible for · A single defendant would have to take the also paid him a visit,
intimated that the Yee Wan Girls' central aerodrome,
responsibility for the member of Some of the members of the School were giving a performance
Its special aerial camera enables the crew who had charge of those at the Star Theatre yesterday and enormous areas to be photographed matters. had issued a number of tickets on a single plate, and as is well- inviting the publie to the perform
known as the result of long experi ence this method of mapping is when he arrived at the Theatre not only vastly quicker but more doar he was refused admission by accurate than the normal methods. the ticket collector, and was push-British Wirelesn ed aside." He, bi turn, pushed the collector.
Hundred Thousand Present.
It is estimated that there were
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at least a hundred thousand in at other delegations were in contact tendance at this meeting, which with the Premier during the day, was being held on the Chaupati and arrangements have been made Sands, and which after being ad- for all the delegation chiefs toance. He had secured a ticket but dressed by members of the Bom-meet at No. 10. Downing Street to hay Congress Committee, was about morrow morning-Brith Wire- to pa an "Independence" resolu-less. tion, "
At this moment, the mob of Com-. munists hove in sight..
Phiform Rushed).
The Congress authorities, anti- cipating trouble, hastily evacuated the women who were on the plat- form, after which the mill-hands raded through the crowd and rush- ed the platform.
The Communft. leaders hu
BRITISH CHALLENGE
FOR POLO CUP. ...
AMERICA "PREPARING, FOR INTERNATIONAL.”
New York, Jan. 20. The United States is preparing to haul dove the National than for the greatest balancing the rangued the crowd and urged them pals year the and to replace it by the Red Flag. British challenge for the Westehes One of their number simul-fer Cup and the visit of the taneously climbed up the flagpost | Argentinians. from which the Natiomi) flag was Tommy Hitchcock, the American waxing and was about to haul it crack, who is the only player in the down when a member of the Con- world handicapped ton, has been ap: gress who hud also clambered up painted exptain of the America
pursuit, "hayled down the team and empowered to appoint his invader.
own remmifies to assist him in all matters pertaining to the defence of the Westchester Cup, .
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Free Eight Begins.
A free fight started on the plat- form. Lathis aid shoes were therally used and showers of sand were flung about in all directions, utmost disorder ensuing,
the
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More Tickets Than Sents. The collector said, that be hai recaived instructions, from the manager to prevent people from entering the theatre. It WHE already full und „If more people were allowed to enter they would be committing a breach of, the. regulations.
The British team in led by Caj- in Tremayne. It la commencing practice at the earliest possible
He replied that sonte people date, and the great importance at-
ached to the contest and the deter-were being allowed to enter while shown by the fact that they have sion,
INDIAN ASSEMBLY
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DISPUTE.
VICEROY AND MR. PATEL IN CONFERENCE.
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Very Small.
It is nearly three months ago hai of General Mo Teh-hui, a that Eielson and Borland hopped representative of Chang Hauch- off from Nome to rescue stram-liang. ed crew and passengers from un ice-bound fur-trader. They made one successful trip, but crashed during the second.
His mission to Nanking is to find out from the Central Government exactly what steps Nanking expects Mukden to take For weeks expeditions from
in the difficult circumstances. Russia, Canada and America have been searching for the lost, Nor- He arrived by the Fengtien wegian flier, by noroplane and Maru this morning, after discus- dog-team, and although he has sing the whole matter with Gen- eral Chang Hsuch-lang, the con- versations occupying two days. General Mo Teh-hui, who recently: resigned the appointment
In reply to his Worship, Deter-been missing for so long, his Live Sergeant Kellett said that the friends, relying on his tented skill dog was "very, very small," and resourcefulness have refused was one of those little things" to give him up for dead. that ladies carried in their hands. Reuter's American Service,
It
His Worship told 'Capt. Carvey of a ship could not be expected that he quite realised the master
to know about the presence? of dogs on board, bút it wad nevars" serious matter. If it became a regular practica, there would be
DOMINIONS OFFICE CHANGE.
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no check en, dogs, which might SIN H. BATTERBEE SUCCEEDS be suffering from rabies, being
SIR E HARDING. [brought into the Colony.
The defendant intimated that on the ship was aware organisation to sell more tickets NO STATEMENT MÅDE. there was a regulation prohibiting
His Worship said it seemed bad than they had accommodation, and
the landing of dogs in the Colony.
" New Delhi, Jan. 26. asked, if the Star Theatre had any
Should Have Known. thing to do with the sale of tickets.
The dispute between Vithalbini The ticket collector replied that Patel, the President of the Indian His Worship asked the police the tickets were issued by the Legislative Assembly and the what notification the masters of school and not the Star Theatre, Government on the subject of con-ships received of such regulations, His Worship told the first de-trol over public galleries, is still and was informed, that although fendant, that if he did not have unsettled, though an effort is being no notices ware posted on board to pay for his ticket and did not made to reach a compromise, shipa notifying people of the fact, find any room in the theatre, he' While his brother, Vallabhai instructions were contained in the should have gone away,
Patel, was heading a monster de- Port Regulations. The officer men. monstration procession marching tioned that there had previously Discrimination?
through the principal atreets of been a case before the Kowloon Ahmedabad, proclaiming Independ- Magistrate some time nga and it publicity. This should have been a ence Day and echoing revolutionary had received a great amount of
spent an hour and a half in con-
McKinley should have informel right to crente. a disturbance. Viceroy, regarding the deadlock. The Star Theatre were not allowed The dispute is over the responsi- Capt. Carvey of the Regulation.
The defendant said there was no to let people in if the premises were bility, for policing the Assembly. full.
The Government takes the line that copy of the Port Regulations on Detective Sergeant Humphreys, it is responsible for the amfety of his ship. He had been in nearly who conducted the case, informed visitors and the member of the every part in the world, but had his Worship that the management Assembly. Mr. Patel argues that never received the Port Regulations of the Theatre telephoned the he alone has the right to give ad- of Hongkong, although he had been given the regulations of other Police stating that the premises mission. were likely to be attacked by t No statement has been issued ports,
but it is considered that Mr. Patel was not his business to see that the regarding the discussion to-day, His Worship remarked that it is unlikely to yield unless he is regulations were issued, but ho satisfied..
had to see that the regulations were There is no immediate chance of carried out. the Assembly gallerícą being re-
London, Jan. 26.
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plenipotentiary and invited Dr. C. T. Wang to attend to the Sino Soviet differences himself, is fully nequainted with General Chang Heuch-liang's attitude. He de- sires chiefly to know what steps Nanking will take to protect Manchuria. In the event of Muk- den's compliance with the repudia-
tion.
Mukden's Position.
Without some guarantees, it is Lord Passfield, Secretary of State practically corlain that •Mukden for Dominion Afairs, mas appoint will act independently of Nauking ed Sir Harry Batterbee to be Asas Chang Hauch-Hang will have no sistant Under-Secretary of State in option in the matter. It has al- the Dominions Office, in succcasion ready been, demonstrated con to Sir Edward Harding, whose clusively that his forces are not Under-Secretary of State was an-in a. serious campaign. appointment to be Permanent sufficient to resist the Soviet army nounced last week.-British Wire- Ican.
General Mo, Interviewed to-day, said that Mukden realised the rea- [Sir Hurry Batterbee has been, son for the discontent in Nanking. Assistant Secretary at the Dominions official circles at the terms of the Office since 1926. He entered tha
Protocol. But, 7 ho Habaroyak Colonial Office in 1005 and was pointed out; for the welfare of the Private Secretary to Mr. Walter Long from 1910 to 1910 when the populace, in Manchurin, the was Colonial Secretary. He Manchurian Government had no latter was political secretary to the Vice-option but to assent to the Russian Admiral Commanding the Special demands. It was the only means Service Squadron on the Empire of bringing a disastrous situation
Australian and New Zealand tour, in 1927.]
Though the bulk of the huge crowd mination of the British team. In others were being refused admis- cries, the. Speaker, of the Assembly warning to the shipping companies. Cruise in 1923-24, and to the Duke of to an end. did not appear to take part in the hud 'a string of thirty of the finest His Worship told him he had no ference with Lord Irwin, theThe local. agents of the President York during His Royal Highness's |
vire.
disturbance.
The mill-lands, prevented from pulo ponies, in training since Inst Interfering with the "National" summer-Renter's American Ser- flag, mounted another post, upon which an amplifier was Installed, and succeeded in hoisting a Red Flag bearing the notorious "Sickle and Hammer."
Flag Torn to Shreds.
WOUNDED WITH A PEN-KNIFE.
The Communist mob then de- YOUNG CHINESE ORDERED A gang of hooligans, but when
parted, the trouble ending almost
a quickly as it had begun. The Congressers immediately tore the Red Flag to shreds.
CANING.
visited the Theatre he could find no substance for the fear.
Hiu Worship intimated that there might not be very much, in. the complaint.
Mr. C. S. Rossclei, secretary of
A quarrel in Nathan Road, be- tween two young Chinese, had It is notable that the pollee sequel before Mr, Whyte Smith, at made no attempt during the day the Kowloon Magsiracy this morn- to interfere with the Congress de-ing, when one of the lads was the Hongkong Amusements, said tween Sir James Crerar, the leader opened to the public. The matter may be settled by 'conference be monstration. A mass meeting charged with maliciously wounding the employees of the Theatre had of the House, Mr. Patel and the was held in the morning followed the other with a pen-knife,
explicit instructions to avoid over- Chief Commissioner for Delhi, by a procession over a mile long The complainant alleged that, crowding. On all occasions that Reuter. which marched through the main because he had jostled the defen- the theatre was loaned to schnole, streets, the police lining the route dant, he WAH stabbed; but the authorities were informed of to prevent outside interferenes- the defendant. claimed that the limited capacity of the pre- Rautor.
the
originally mixes. complainant threatened bim with the knife which he snatched away 'and infleted the Injury to the com- plainant.
A Quiet Day.
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Gang of Hooligana? New Delhi, Jan. 20. The police took quiet but
Referring to the present inci- elaborate measures all over India His Worship intimated that he dent, Mr. Rosselet said it was not to preserve law and order on the did not bellove either story and til 12.80 p.m. that he received in- occasion of the celebration of ordered the defendant to receive formation that one of the em Independence Day, but reports both twelve strokes of the cane, ho ployees had been assaulted. Ap- from Northern India and Southern having admitted the charge. parently, the first defendant was India, show that the proceedings
known as being a member of a gang of hooligans. everywhere were orderly except
His Worship interposed, re-
$20,000 IN NOTES STOLEN.
at Bombay In the evening,
Procesnions of Congress volun- occasionally jeered the police in that, as it might not be correct. the vicinity of meetings, but the
from the celebrations. The crowds marking that he could not accept notes, some person entering his
Mr.
Rosselet said at
COMMUNISTS CLASH WITH POLICE.
No Option
The Mukden military authorities. for several months undertook the dimcult task of holding the Soviet in check, but they were helpless 'when Russia applied full pressure, If a compromise had not been reached, Manchuria would have. suffered a blow from which she VIOLENT DISTURBANCE IN would have taken a long time to,
Tecover. NEW YORK CITY.
His mission to Nanking is to New York, Jan. 26. explain the embarrassed position Twelve men were clubbed and of the Manchurian Government injured and scores of others were fully, and to ask them to appoint accidentally caught in the midst of a special plenipotentiary of their No Bigger Than Rat. a swirling mob and jostled and own to discuss the final solution of
lined that ignorance of the Law was tion by about two hundred Com the necessity of accepting the
bruised when a large force of police the problem with the Moscow': The defendant said that he ren-charged and broke up a demonstra Government, He will also urge no excuse, but he claimed that in munists outside the City Hall. mitigation of penalty. He men-
Habarovsk Protocol as it stands The demonstration was apparent tloned that the dog was no biggerly arranged in protest against the than a rat, and because of a sharp-fatal shooting of 籠 Communist eyed detective, he was made
to strike picket by police in the Bronx suffer.
District.
Although the police made only
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His Worship pointed out that the dog's passage had been paid for and a number of the defendant's staff hnd knowledge of its presence on board.
The defendant replied that its presence was not known to him and, therefore he would have to suffer for his staff.
The defendant was fined $5.
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"SOME RAIN.”
for the present, in order that the Soviet threat of again; invading North Manchuria will not be cur- ried out.
Refused Responsibility.
five arrests, the demonstration was He stated that he has declined one of the most unruly and violent to accept the responsibility of act- witnessed in New York City in reing as plenipotentiary. He' de- cent months-Reuter'a American siras that the Nanking Foregin Service,
DANISH PRINCE'S VISIT.
NANKING GOVERNMENT TO WELCOME..
Office appoint their own delegate, General Mo. Teh-but then touch ed on the plans for reconstruction work in Manchuria and said he would discuss an elaborate pro- gramme of reconstruction with Marahal Chiang Kai-shok while in Nanking,
Dr. C. T. Wang returned to Haus; king this morning to make napras parations for the conference with MoTek-hui, who will leave for
FORGETFULNESS CAUSES HEAVY LOSS.
Failure by an accountant of a rice shop, in Bonham Strand West, to place $20,000 in a safe on Fri day caused him to be robbed of the entire aum of money, which was in
house, and stealing. It from an un- teers in the principal cities, halst ing the National flag over publie latter ignored the processionists, rate that was the reason the emplaced the notes for the time being. any locked drawer, Into which he had buildings and passing an Indepen who sang national songe and ployees of the Theatre were afraid
The Royal Observatory, reports. The unfortunate man is Tung that the anticyclone, covers North dence resolution formed the main hawked homespun cloth. stay of the proceedings.
At Ahmedabad, Mohammedana to return to their duties and † Sui-fung, secountant of the Tang China and South Manchuria. The | Khuffmann, has left for Siam to Nanking this evening: At Calcutta, the feature of the
Yeung Pong rise shop, of 88, Bon- appeared, as onlookers but did wanted Follce protection. processions was, the absence of not take part in the processions.
ills Worship anid that if the ham Strand: According to his state- depression is moving eastward to welcome the Crown Prince and ac- Regarding the arrival of Gen- posters
bearing revolutionary The inmates of Gandhi's Ashram theatre was being overcrowded ment to the police, he left the notes wards the Bonins, and the typhoon company him during his visit in eral Mo Toh bul, one report caya la stationary about 500 miles B.8.E. China. The National Government that the Manchurian Government Inscriptions.
observed the day as a fast. They the management should refuse to in the drawer, intending to trans of Manila, Frosh monsoon will is preparing to accord a warm wel may, through General Mo, secure occupied the day in spinning. In loan it to schools,
when he next went to get them, he prevall over the south-east coat of come to His Royal Highness, some form of financial assistance the evening the occupants passed. Mr. Rosselet pointed out that found they had been stolen. Sea. The local forecast till noon Kaufmann, the Spanish Minister replenish the huge sums spent tir
China and over the North: China During the absence of Mr. | from the National Government- At Bombay, the most notable a resolution in favour of in-school premises were usually too. The larceny occurred me time to-morrow laN. Ewinds, freaks will act as Dean of the Diplomatic Mukden during the several month feature was the fact that Moslems dependence In Gandhi's presence, small to hold the crowds on the
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Body-Canton News Agency 09, of Swart with Soviet Rusta ware conspicuous by their absence-Reuter, e
morning
Mosleme
fer them to a safe, but forgot, and
Nanking, Jan; 25.4. The Danish 'Minister, M.
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