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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1930. HE ISOL OCPY 10. CEXTH
RADIO, TELEPHONY WOMAN HANGED IN FORCES MASSING THE CURSE OF TUT
. PROGRESS.
LONDON THE WORLD'S SWITCHBOARD.
REMARKABLE DEVELOPMENT IN SPACE OF YEAR.
AMERICA.
MORE THAN THREE YEARS AFTER CRIME.
POISON PHIAL IN CELL.
New York. Feb. 21. The first woman to be legally.. executed in the State of Arizona, and the twenty-sixth woman to be STILL GOING STRONG."executed in the United States since
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London, Feb, 21. Wireless telephony as a com- mercial proposition is develop. ing with remarkable rapidity and London is fast becoming the switch-board of the world.
The Australian Experimental Service which has been conducted
the incorporation, was hanged at sunrise today at Florence, Arizona.
The unfortunate woman wan Mrs.
Eve Dugan, who was ifty-two years of age, and who was found guilty of the murder of an are rancher named Mathis, of Tucson,
IN NORTH.
PREPARING FOR BIG STRUGGLE.
MARSHAL CHIANG SAID TO BE PESSIMISTIC.
CHIEFS APPOINTED.
ANKH-AMEN.
LORD WESTBURY COMMITS
SUICIDE
LOST HIS ONLY SON.
London, Feb. 21.
Lord Westbury, who was seventy- eight years of age jumped from a 7th floor flat in Loudon and was killed:
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VILLAGE SCOUTS
& GUARDS.
TO ASSIST POLICE ON MAINLAND.
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GOVERNMENT & ELDERS TO SHARE THE COST.
British and Best
Bulls and Inners
From the Office Butts.
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"Musicus:"The very sugges "John-It is not correct to tion that the English Singers address the Director of Air Ser should compose a local work vices as "Your Airship!!! entitled "Street Cryes of Hong- kong" is enough to Wyndham!..
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The Shanghai brokers' great trick is to take a lamb and make a gost of him..
Some of these old proverba may.
be all right, but too many cooks
in Hongkong don't stay long enough
to spoil the broth.
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van invent a telephone which will
A fortune awaits the man who
A local contemporary says there. give him the right number for is a surfelt of money in the Colony. cash aweep tickets. McWhirter remarks that, so far, he hasn't been in any way embar rassed by the fact
According to a magistrale, the law gives a man the right to decide
but not the courage.
what his wife shall wear. heir the Honourable Richard formed in the New Territories,
and Village Guards."
At the Inquest to-day e, verdict of suicida while of unsound” mind
MEN TO BE ARMED. was returned. Shanghai, Feb. 21. Evidence was given that Lord | For the purpose of supple; Nanking's extensive prepara-Westbury, who had. long suffered menting the operations of the in arined tions for war on the Lung-Lai from ill health, had grioved very police, especially and Tientsin-Pukow, Railwaye much over the loss of his son and robberies, a new force is to be include the filling of important Bethell, who was recently found to be composed of Village Scouts military posts, these being de- dead in his bed. *** The murder occurred in Jamary, cided on at a military conclave The Hon. Richard Bethell, who 1927, and therefore, three years held at Tongzhan on Thursday, was only forty-six, was Secretary were allowed to elapse before Mrs. When Marshal Chiang Kai-shek to Mr. Howard Carter, who carried Dugan explated her crime, which was described as particularly shock-was in the chair, by the Post Office from the Rugbying, the murder being committed and Baldock Wireless Telephone | ... Stations, to a spot near Sydney, Australia, has met with great success, and an official announce- ment regarding the service will be made in the near future.
Yesterday,
new service to Vatican Stäte, via Rome, was open- ed by the Post Office,
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Recently, the Isle of Man was linked to the mainland and it in expected that similar development will take place with regard to the Channel Islands
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Phones to Ships and Traing. It is possible to telephone from Great Britain to ships at sea and within a short time a service will be in operation between any fixed telephone station and passengers on the main line express trains.
Sinco a single speech channel between Britain and America was opened just over a year ago the trulle has greatly increased 'and' now four speech channels are in use, and even these are not Buff- cient to meet the demand.
Calls to U.S.A. Thousand Daily.
H.M.S. DURBAN STRUCK ..
BY A STORM.
Thirteen Members of the Crew Injured,
FORMERLY IN HONGKONG.
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The Admiralty states that during a severe and sudden storm at Nassau, in the Bahamas, on Monday last, violent seas broke over the forecastle and upper deck of cruiser, H.M.S. Durban, formerly on the China Station,
Commissioned Gunner Whi- Laker sustained two broken riba, besides other minor in- juries, while Renton, the blacksmith, Also ‚ reculvod...». severe injuries.
Eleven other members of. the crew received minor in- juries.
During the storm, three of the boats belonging to the ship were driven nshore, two of them being 'practically de- stroyed. British Wireless.
Stockbrokers and other business people have accepted the Trans- Atlantic telephone as a necessary aid to business, and use it for long call daily, the present traffic beamEZISTANT NINCO (NEOFAENULE ZAKOU MENTECHMITZ20: ing somewhere around a thousand calls daily.
Work has been started on the new Trans-Atlantic, cable, which is to be available for telephony, and it is expected to be complete by 1932,
The British Post Ofce is lead
Considerable reticence is shown regarding the decisions of the meeting, but it is officially an- nounced that Marshal Chiang Kai- shek reviewed the North China situation.. somewhat pessimistical- ly, expressing his intention to leave Nanking personally to direct operations at the front.
The Chief Commands,
The meeting also decided on the appointment of General Ho Ying- ching, Marshal Chiang Kai-alick's chief lieutenant, as Commander- in-Chief of the Nationalist forces along the Peking-Hankow Railway, with Headquarters at Hankow, while the First National Division Chief, General Liu Chi, will be assigned to the command of the forces along the Lung-Hai Rail-
way,
The Honan situation la extreme- ly tense and hostilities are expect ed to commence at any moment.
Further Aclivity.
A general mobilisation of Shun-
a thrust on Hankow.
in order that she might obtain pos- ported. # BERKion of his property...
A nearch of her cell before the execution revealed a phial of poison under the mattress. She spent a few liours before the execution in playing cards.
Half a dozen women were among Reuter's American Service.
Communications Interrupted.
BIG AMERICAN OIL MERGER.
Socony and Vacuum Of Co. to Unite,
HUGE JOINT CAPITAL.
New York, Feb. 21. The Vacuum Oil Company announces its early herger with the Standard Oil" Com. pany of New York, which will be one of the most important amalgamations in the oil his tory of the United States,
The Standard Of Com. pany's capital is 300,000,000, and the Vacuum Com-, pany's £25,000.com
The Vacuum Oil Company was a subsidiary of the Stan- dard Oil Company of New Jersoy, which is the largest. oil Company in America. Reuter's American Service.
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of De organisation appearing in The fact is revented in particulars the current issue of the Government Gazette, these being contained in regulations made by the Governor- in-Council under the. Watchmen Ordinance.
Duties Explained."
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Yes,
We presume that the delegates
Some of these Kowloon Tong roosters who disturb early morn- ing sleepers seem to be suffering from crowing pains..
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A-temperance reformer predicts. that England may go "dry" this year. Nineteen-thirsty 1-
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at the Five-Power Conference in caps in business is that she can't London all smoke Navy Cut.
Last week snow fell in Aber deen, but it was cleared away before it had a chance to collect In the strecta.
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It will soon be time to make last year's bathing costume into this Year's backless vogue,
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It is explained that a registered Village Scout, is a person employed to guard a village or district in the New Territories (other than New Kowloon), and to supplement the
It looks as if operations of the police force, and in particular, to prevent, resist and there are likely afrest robbers and raiders, who is to be some big in regular employment for such changes in the purposes, and is paid therefor in China War part by the Government of the League Table. Colony, and is armed by such Gov- crament, and is allowed by the Inspector General of Police to re- gister himself in the Watchmen's Register, and is registered in such register as a police watchmand.
A registered Village Guard is a person whose duties are similar to those of a registered village scout, and who is allowed by the Inspector General of Police to register him self in the Watchmen's Re
gister, and is registered in
auch register 13 a police watchman, but who differs from a registered village scout in that his employment is temporary, seasonal
Some steaks Bre amothered in. onions, but they die hard' for all that,
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It. is not.true. that the delay. by the A.D.C, in
One of woman's greatest handi-
disclose her experience without giving away her age.
who has given up using his gromo- We hear of a local Aberdonian
phone because he's lost the needle.
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Some women can make money go so far that they never see it again.
Henpeck (truculently, to
producing "And friends I deaded to have it
So To Bed," was entirely due to the cast being too wrapt up in the subject.
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out with my wife last night and find out once and for all who's " boss in my house.
Friend: Well, who is? Henpeck: She is!**
In the new race course stands,
There are two hundred bones' In the human system but dice players are shid to. have more...
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Somo cars are like' wives; they #o boltar when throttled down.
--Some folk are awful liara'A
young man on
the Ferry the other day was heard to remark
that he had read Homer's Odysey Boon after It was published,
King Boris of Bulgaria took the
the sheep are separated from the place of the engineer on his train recently and ran the engine a few miles. It may seem strange to
goata.
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si troops, coupled with other ex- tensive war activity, is taking place along the Peking-Hankowo occasional only, and in that he Railway. Shansi is understood to
is paid wholly by a village or dis- have sent three gunboats and out the work of oxcavating the trict, and in that his armis ara ob- several guns to the Peking-Han- tomb of Tut Ankh-Amen in the kow Railway in readiness to make Valley of the Kings in Egypt, and tained from a village or district to hin tragic and early death has revive which the same are lent by the said
Government, ed the superstition of the curse on The mobilisation of Kuomin-those who disturb the tombs of the
This doubtless follows the prae. you, but the engine driver is sald chun units at Tungkwan is, re- Ancient Pharoahs,
Licence Booka.
tice of separating the sweeps.from to have "marvelled at his skill." Since the excavation of Tut The regulations now. issued in the totes!
ច ព Ankh-Amen's Tomb, ten people clude the following:
Job had his trials, of course, who were concerned in the work
The Inspector General of Police A local Aberdonian who looks but in those days singers couldn't While extreme tension is re-have died, including Lord Carnar-shall issue to each registered village on the wine when it is red, has yet broadcast, ported along the Tientsin-Pukow VOL.
scout and registered village guard to be convinced that Hongkong is
ព ខ Railway and the Peking-Hankow The late Lord Westbury was the a licence book bearing the name, on a free-port basis.
You may do well for a time on credit but remember this shroff Railway, conditions along the Third Baron. He succeeded to the address, photograph and thumb
OD · Lung-Hai Railway are quiet. On title in 1875, four years before he print of such scout or guard.
News item: "Yesterday oven- will discover your address in due Every registered village scout dr up trains from Hankow have been Guarda.
thousand miles Bcross the when on duty carry his licence Atlantic, many telephone conver Auntie Cyclone's rheumatism is book; (b) produce his licence book sations were carried on easily and now so much improved that she on demand to any police officer; (e) audibly." By the same token, can no longer tell when it's going deliver up his licence book to the Hongkong must be umpteen thou- to rain. Inspector General of Police imme diately on being removed from the sand miles away from the Kowloon
| Majestic. · reglater; (d) not transfer hie -
0:0 cence book to any other person.
In resigning from the LLP., Mr. Rameny MacDonald's motta prob. ably, was: "I Loathe Perverts,"
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ing Europe, if not the whole world the witnesses, of the execution. the Peking-Hankow Railway, the resigned a commission in the Scots registered village guard 'shall (e)ing, when the Majestic was one time.
in telephony, and is most unxious to fill the existing gaps.
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Linking up with other countries, like Turkey, depends to a great extent on the efficiency of the machinery and the administration abroad.
THE SWEEP TICKET PROSECUTION.
NO ORDER FOR SEİZURE MADE.
partly interrupted, but the ex- The new Baron, the son of the press service is still maintained. Hon. Richard Bethell, is 16 years
The schedules of the Tientsin- of age.-British Wireless. Pukow, Railway are 'irregular on account of Nationalist movementa.
troop.
Shansi messages state that Mar- shal Yen Hei-shan is enlisting yolunteers in thousands, 'in anti-
In the case in which two sales-cipation of a lengthy struggle with
From London to Shanghai.
The Daily Herald learns that if the Post Office negotiations with American interests culminate in a satisfactory agreement, the men of the Sincere Company were charges for overseas telephony charged with "trading" in South will be reduced fifty per cent. Chimu Association sweep-lickets, within a year,
and were fined on Thursday, the The next big development will Magistrate (Mr. Hamilton) has de- be to start a regular telephoneclined to make an order regarding service to Australia, which it is the disposal of the tickets seized eventually hoped will extend to by the police, South Africa. India and New Zealand.
The Journal says the British Post Office is leading Europe, if not the world, in telephony. British business men will be able to talk,
Mr. T. H. King, the Director of Criminal Intelligence, attended before, the Court this morning, with C. 1. D. Marphy and the Crown Solicitor, Mr. . . Holmes, His "Worship remarked:-Mr. King, the whole thing seems to be erd long, with customers in Shang-in a melting pot. I won't make hal, but the Post Office at pre- Lan order. sent is concentrating on the de-. velopment of dominion telephony. British Wireless and Reuter.
LANCASHIRE AIMS AT
- MASS PRODUCTION.
NEW MOVE FOR INCREASING STANDARD LINES,
London, Feb. 21. -- „A"now" move to increase Län- cashire's cotton trade in bulk stan-. dard lines is foreshadowed by an
CAR COLLIDES. WITH TRAM.
Nanking,
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POLICE
INSPECTOR SERIOUSLY ILL.
IN HOSPITAL WITH PNEUMONIA.
Friends of Sub-Inspector Cotton will hear with regret that he is now lying dangerously from pneumonia in hospital.
Musketry Instruction.",
Every registered village scout or registered village guard shall et- tend at such times and places an may be directed by the Inspector Go eral of Police, and shall there take part in such parades, Instruc- tions and musketry as may be pre- selbed by the Inspector General of Police.
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If you don't win a sweepstake
to-day,
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Heed not what the pessimist's
say.
You may not on Monday, Nor Tuesday as well, Wednesday may fail you.
For all you can tell: But the last race of all May make you feel-gay,
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A Fanling member recently dia it in seventy-six. "-To-morrow, he hopes to do the second hole.
Sam:-We cannot tell what brown or blue eyes denote, All we know for certain:is that a black eye usually means something en- tirely different
The girl who used to know what was going on fù fáahlons now has a daughter who knows what's coming off..
门口 They any matches are made.in heaven but there is no doubt where
Till your pony drops dead by some of these cigarette lighters
the way!
are made,
Generals Support Yen..
Peking, Feb. 21. Shansi organs claim the receipt of Sianfu telegrams reporting
When admitted to the Govern- that the Kuominchun leaders Lu Chung-lin, Sun Cheh-yuan, Liu ment Civil Hospital on Saturday Ye-fon, Sun Liang-sing and Shih laut, his condition was already Every registered village scout Ching-ting have telegraphed to serious. On Thursday, he was re-shall, during employment, be en- Yen Hel-shan supporting his ported to be holding his own fair- titled to pay at the rate $10 per recent stand, and offering to back ly well. Yesterday his condition month, of which $5 will be paid was reported by Dr. Newton to be by Government and $5 by the Elders' him with armed force. .. Their telegram denounces "rather, worse." This was the of the village or district employing
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DO Considering the amount' of A lighthouse is offered for sale Chiang Kai-shek, declaring that seventh day after contracting the him. his policy of unification by force disease, and, is a cloak for extermination of advice, it was thought advisable to registered village guard shall be able that so far there have been ought to pick it up, teach it to box No registered village scout or gossip in Hongkong it is remark in a Home newspaper. Somebody. all the militarists in order to cable Home to his wife, informing entitled to pay in respect of any no cases of parrot-flu.
and match the thing with Primo time during which he is not em-K
Carnera. her of his condition. strengthen himself,
Skirmishes in Central Honan Civil Hospital this morning ind
Enquiries at the Government ployed.
Missie-Why don't you light it len't much fun to be sitting are reported in Chengchow telecata that the patient's condition
the fire?
around with your mouth shut, but grams, between troops achnow remains very much the same, The
Boy: Not got coal. ledging the leadership of. Han critical stage has been reached, it
Missie:Why didn't you let me just look at all the laws you're Fu-chu and su' Yuan-chuan's was further stated.
obeying know before?
MN. W. E. HOLLANDS' NANNOW | forces.
ESCAPE.
At present traffic on tho Peking-Hankow railway is run Mr. W. E. Hollanda, the Hon. Ining normally, but Wednesday's Secretary of the Football Associa- train to. Peking from Pukow was tion, was involved in a rather held up for twelve hours at Chu- nasty vehicular smash yesterday chow, forty miles northward of morning at Kennedy Town,
Pukow, for some reason unknown. Mr. Hollands was proceeding,
Foreign sources at Taiyuanfu shortly after 11 am, along the report that Feng Yuchsiang yes- terday left Chionan for Sion, but
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STEAMER BEACHED IN SUEZ ROADS.
COLLISION" BETWEEN
AFRICAN JUNGLE
FILM.
QUEEN:MARY.SEES “TEMBI”.
·IN LONDON.
London, Feb, 21.
Her Majesty the Queen, at the
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Boy: Before have got.
The trouble wit most of these waterfront spongers is that they'r nearly always dirty."
According to recent Garrison sports news, the Herald: found the Sandwich an easy proposition Not so tough as usual, in fact
A local contemporary the other What makes many a man late day referred to the ship Heart GERMAN-AND DUTCHMAN Stoll Cinema, London, to-day saw at the club is that he's so bury Kibsen. That in the worst of
Port Suid, Feb, 213,
Mr. Chorry Kearlón's film, Tembi telling his friends how happy he knowing a little French The German 8.8. Hall, on her depicting wild life in the African is, with his wife,
This talk of Yen dominating the way from Hamburg to Macassar, jungle, where HR.H. the Pringo-Moo
Afterwards, Her Majesty took ten which is perhaps the reason why head, looks like a big change New York, bound for Batavia, came into collision to-day both with Sir Oswald and Lady Stoll, to we have so many world tourists criais, Bremen The Hon. Treasurer of the being damaged, a jak whom she remarked "It is a pity00 tr is to secure economies incidental to with a tramcar. Mr. Hollands Hongkong. Benevolent Society ac-holed that her clippur was forced pervous at the Dought of the stakes. If will be rough luck on Hall
The Sembilan was so badlycanso come oftenar. I am very1 0908 comes up in the sweep Canton paper Production and regular demand escaped Injury, but the front of knowledges with thanks the sum to beach her in the Suez Road Prince of Wales being near so many people who haven't bought any loca
announcement of the impending Kennedy Town Prayá in his car the report lacks confirmation and the Dutch 8.8. Sembilan, from of Wales, la new hunting, Traval bronden one's mind situation, and ousting the Nanking
formation of a British Catton Textfic Association; supported by all sections of the trade, Including the operatives,
The aim of the new Association
„Reuter,
when a coolie, who was carrying
sick of rice, got in his way; In endeavouring to avoid run- ning into the coolie, Mr. Hollands swerved abruptly, and collided
his car was badly smashed)
of $5 from an anonymous donor.
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