WUCHOW SITUATION. INDIAN BOMB AFFAIR.
IRONSIDES REPORTED TO. BE NEAR FRONTIER.
According to reports received in Canton, Chang Fat-kwal and his Ironsides are again close to the Kwangtung border in the north, and further trouble is expected with them;
and many other commanders.
Big Victory Claimed.
INJURED STUDENT DIES:
SEVERAL ARRESTS.
Amritsar, Feb. 24., Pratap Singh, the Indian student injured by a bomb yesterday, has digd.
ITALIAN ART.
THE. HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY.
PICKPOCKETS.
PREVALENCE" OF LARCENIES
FROM PASSENGERS.
Doubts as to whether a plea of guilty to a charge could be accept- ed in the absence of the complain- ant were expressed by Mr. Whyte Smith, at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, when a Chinese appear the person of a passenger of the s.s. Canton of a purso containing $1.43 and one cash.
ed on a charge of larceny from
1
His Worship asked if the charge could not be altered to one of being in unlawful possession.
The officer pointed out that the defendant had pleaded guilty to larceny.
PASSENGERS
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FEBRUARY
25, 1930.
~LOCAL RADIO:"
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME
RECORDS.
Programma.
(Verdi, arr. Tavan), New Queen's Hall Light Orchestra.
L. G. Lemon), "My Ain Folk," (W. hills and
Hear You Calling Me
(H. Harford and C. Marshall).
The Masstros.
"Four Ways (Fric Contes);
Regal Cinema Orchestra. 5.30-8.00 p.m. Aunty Letty, Aunty Madge, and. Uncle Jack will entertain the Children.
Per ss. President Cleveland from
To-day's Wireless Manila, February 28-Hon, W. W. Astor, Mrs. H. Aplin, Mr. G. F. Broadcast by ZBW, on .355 metres. D'Aquino, Mr. Angel Acha, Mr. and 5.00-5.30 p.m. Programme of Co- Mrs. A. E. Bulson, Miss V. Barthololumbia records by courtesy of Messrs.
Anderson Music Company.. Half a dozen students have been
new, Mrs. Mary N. Booth, Miss M. "Adia-Selection," arrested. The police are vainly
Booth, Rev. Hermann Bird, Mrs. C. W. The Kwangtung forces claim searching their college for some
Chapman, Mrs. L. H. Carlington, Mrs. that the Ironsides have been all thing incriminating.-Reuter.
Bertha D. Collingham, Mr. J. F. Cal- but annihilated, but there still [A message of February 23
lingham, Mr. L. Codina, Mr. and Mrs."I seems to be a great deal of anxiety stated that a bomb filled with
It was intimated by Dotective GM Dutcher, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. in military circlee as to the future. scrap-iron and glass exploded dur-Sergeant Kellett that the com--Bellamy: Mr. Juan Ferrer, Mr. and Last week an important military ing the celebration of an anniver-pizistant, who had arrived in the Ms. F George, Mr. J. M. Gwinnell, conference was held, at Wuchow, sary in the Khalsa College among those attending being Gen-and a student. Pratap Singh, who Colony on board the s.s. Canton, Mr. G. Gildred, Mr. A. F. Henry, Mr. had already left Hongkong. and Mrs. W. P. Hemmen, Mr. Arthur eral Chan Chai-tong, General Chan was, presiding, was seriously inj Ming-shu, the civil governor of jured and his leg had to be am-
Hogan, Rev. J. Jackson, Mr RE Jenney, Miss E. B. Kayser, Mr. J. H.
6.00-7.00 p.m. Programme of Co- the province, and Generals Chu putated. Ten.. other persons re-
Kirkpatrick, Mr. Sam London, Miss Clumbia records by Courtesy of Messrs. Shao-liang, Lei Woon-yim, Chan ceived slight injuries.]
Myra, Sister Maria Magdalena, Mr. Anderson Music Company. Hing-wan and Admiral Chán Chak)
S. Matsukato, Rev. J. McCloskey, Miss "The Schoolmaster and the Boy,"
(Roriald A. G. McFee, Mr. G. A. Noronha, Mr. Angel Ortia, Mr. H. H. Proabus, Mr. L. A. da Rocha, Mr. F. Romero, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Skinner, Mr. H. Stuhlweifenburg, Miss H. R. Smith, Mr. Loo Tai, Mr. E. Warren, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Wardle, Mr. W. W. Baer, E. Mr. and Mrs. John K. Butter, Miss Culver, Mrs. B. L. Hopper, Mrs. L. R. Hall, Mrs. Bertha G Leas, Mr. George Mr. L. Sibireakoff, Mr. and Mrs. Leas, Detective Sergeant Kellett: IE. T. Williams, Miss C. Wolfe, Mr. don't think that would be in order. Issac E. Berkson, Mrs. Fannie Berk son, Mr. Adolfe Carpi, Mr. and Mrs. may not be.
His Worship: I don't know; it A. F. Katz, Mr. Chao Sue Teck, Mrg. Meyo Matsukato, Miss Maria Ranson, Mr. T. Nishine, Mr. and Mrs. F. N. Detailing the facts of the case, Civin, Mrs. Maria L. Davis, Miss This has in part been made pos-detective on board the ship had . . C. Hohmann, Mr. Cyrus Pad- the prosecuting officer said that a Janet A. Feran, Miss Anne E. Hynde, sible by an undertaking of Signor seen the defendant looking into gett, Mrs. Blanche Pudgett, Master J. Modigliani, who is in charge of
passengers' pockets. He the art treasures from Italy, to searched and the purse, belonging and Mrs. G. Borrow, Miss T. J. de was C. Padgett, Mr. Reese B. Marsh, Mr. have all the pictures for which to the complainant, was found. Guzman, Mr. Charles N. Hedges, Miss he is responsible packed and re- When questioned, defendant Elke Kalleman, Mr. and Mrs. G. B. moved within one week of the frankly admitted that he had Wilson, Miss Ruth Wilson, Miss Anna British Wireless.
losing
the exhibition.--
stolen it from the owner.
Wilson, and Master George Wilson
Shanghai, Feb. 24.
LONDON EXHIBITION TO
BE EXTENDED.
London, Feb. 24.
The Kuomin news agency pub- lishes a Wuchow message, report- ing severe fighting yesterday by Government troops against Iron- sides and Kwangsi forces eastward
In view of the plea for an ex- of Kweihsien, in south Kwangsi, resulting in the capture of eight tension of the time for the exhibi- thousand rebels, seven thousand lion of Italian art, which is still rifles and fifty field guns.-Reuter. attracting immense crowds, the President of the Royal Academy Jannounces that it will closed until March 20.
THE WAR ON DISEASE.
AIRCRAFT SERVICES AND YELLOW FEVER.
Batavia, Feb. 24.
of
not be
After considering the point, his Worship asked why the Police could not put down the name of the Inspector General of Police as the complainant in substitution of the name of the original complain.
ant.
•
Comedy S
by Gicaly Court- naidge and Jack Hulbert. "Rigoletto-Prelude and Duke's
"Song," "Rigoletto-Quartette,"
Maria Gentile, Ebó- Stignani, Alessandro Granda and Carlo Galeff. "The Engineer," (Will Fyffo). "Dr. McGregor,"
Will Fyffe.
Barcarolle," (Varlanoff) "Chauve Souris-A Russlan "Chauve Souris-Round the Hay
Wain,"
Chauve Souris Company. Hungarian Dance in Ji Minor,”
"Cavatina,"
Violin Solo by Arthur Catterall with Piano.
Debroy Somers Band.
The meeting of the League of Nations Eastern Bureau of Epidemiological Intelligence ex- pressed an opinion that air traffic from countries in Africa infected ITALIAN AVALANCHE. larceny in 1927 against the defen- SNOWDEN'S DILEMMA. "On the Quarter Deck, March?"
with yellow fever should be for- bidden until the strictest possible quarantine can effectively be ap plied.
Doctor Van Loukhuyzen was elected president of the advisory council of the Bureau at Singapore in succession to General Graham, and Doctor Guerin, the representa- tive of Indo-China, vice-president.
DEATH ROLL MOUNTS TO
FIFTEEN.
The police produced record of one previous conviction for
[dant, and Detective Sergeant Kel- lett intimated that the defendant had previously been arrested for picking the pocket of a Japanese passenger on board a ship, but, owing to the man's departure from the Colony, the case had been dropped.
not
Rome, Feb. 24. The death roll in the. Balognola avalanche is now fifteen.
His Worship remarked that he There are still six persons mias-did not see why he could Ing.-Reuter.
accept the defendant's plea even
the though
complainant Was absent.
Sentence of six months' hard labour was imposed.
Thanks to the generosity of the [A message dated February 23 Dutch telegraphic administration, stated that nine people had been the Malabar wireless station in killed, 13 were missing and five future will broadcast epidemiologi-injured as result of the cal intelligence, daily, instead of avalanche, in which, also, many weekly.Reuter.
attle were overwhelmed.]
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EFFECTS OF FALL IN THE BRITISH REVENUES.
London, Feb. 24.
"Ivan Caryll Memories," (Ivan Caryll), "Paul Rubens Memories," "The Five o'clock Girl-
Up in the Clouds," "The Five o'clock Girl-
Thinking of You,"
Kalmer and Rudy),
Layton and Johnstone.
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The Regimental Band of H. M. Grenadier Guards, "Messiah-He shall food his Flock."
(Handel), "Creation's Hymn," (Beethoven),
Dame Clara Bett. Military Tattoo,"
The latest official figures of the Wembley Band of H. M. Grenadier
British revenue situation show a pared with a deficit of £58,000,000 current deficit of £97,000,000 com-
Guards.
7.00-8.00 pm: Experimental pro- in mid-February of last year. By gramme, the time the accounts were closed 8.00 pm. Chinese programme re- last year the revenue had overtaken layed from Ro Shing Theatre until
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MILITARISM, DENOUNCED. McKenna charged with larceny from the per- £3,500,000 which the son of a passenger from Canton duties on motor-cars, etc. have pro-
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TALMA The occasion was that of the
10,000 1 The pleas were accepted by the force beyond the dates fixed for public welcoming of the student Police.
their expiration.--British Wirelesa. Ebert, the president of the Federa Detective Sergeant Poyntz in- formed his Worship that the com- plainant had arrived from Canten
Cross
and was purchasing his ticket to Ead been quite a lot of larcenies the harbour by the Star from the person at Kowloon Point. Ferry when the money was taken The loss of some $700 in cheques from his pockets. The other two by a banker some days ago was defendants were present but only also recalled.
tion of Students, whom the Dicta- tor exiled to Majorça.
Thousands of students, men and women, worked up to a fever-pitch of excitement, acclaimed their "hero". The sight of a priest or an army officer brought a renewal
the first was arrested on the spot The first and third defendants of the shouts. by the complainant.
were each sentenced to four
It was pointed out to his Wor- months' hard labour, while the The police kept well into the. ship by the Sergeant that there second was discharged.
background.-Reuter.
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