THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1930.
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(Photo: A. Leung). can easily be estimated.
FOOLISH RATHER BRITISH WAR DEBT GANDHI DEFIES AN
THAN WICKED.
TO AMERICA.
THREATENING LETTER SENT TO "HOTEL" MANAGER.
HOW BALFOUR NOTE HAS FAILED TO OPERATE.
MEN WITH GRIEVANCE.
manager
former
was
ORDER.
POLICE ALLOW HIM TOʻMAKE PUBLIC SPEECH.
PRESENT DEFICIENCY. MORE MILITANT TONE.
In the course of a speech, Gand-
ment who had been discharged for the end of the present financial year hi said that as a reply to the ar-
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misdemeanour. The Writer: threatened the Manager with violence, and amongst other things, expressed the "pious wish" that he would be stricken with consumption.
London, Mar. 19.
Borsad, Mar. 19. A curious letter was recently
Although Gandhi was prohibited received by Leung Sau-san, the In a written reply to a Parlia-
Tin mentary question, Mr. of the Tai Law
Phillp from addressing public meetings Boarding House. Des Voeux Road Snowden, the Chancellor of the Ex-at Raas, he defied the order and Central.
chequer, says that the total sums the police made no attempt to cg- The missile sent by a paid to the United States on ac force waiter of the establish- count of the British War Debt by
will be £279,473,000.
Vallabhai Patel, Raas rest of Against this we shall have re- should send five hundred volun
civil ceived in the same period to the teers to participate in the aime date, approximately 98,000, disobedience campaign. 000 on account of reparations, and £48,825,000 on account of Allled.He warned volunteers that they War Debts.
would have, to fight to the last. "I think your letter was foolish
The aggregate receipts, there-They would not be treated merci- rather than wicked," said Mr. Grantham to the author when he fore, fell short of the aggregate fully if they were arrested and Gandhi added that he had beer. was charged before his Worship Payments by over £132,000,000, and sentenced.
the defiulency is close on £200,000,- this morning. with intimidation.000 if interest on past payments told that if he manufactured salt Arraigned as an accomplice was a and receipts is taken into account. it would be, snatched from his 17-year-old lad who admitted to British Wireless.
hands, but he would like to see how the Government could snatch from his hand, weak though he
having written the letter from A First Clase sidontal, and Tourist Hotel with all the Com vani-aces of a Homs. Under Entirely European Management, Cosy Bewaga and Billiard Baloon. Three minutes from Perry. Families specially entered fat. Moderate term.
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dictation by the other prisoner.
Inspector John Murphy stated that the boy had a grievance on his own part, owing to the fact that he had been demoted from the position of waiter to a less remunerative role in the boarding
house.
Both prisoners were convicted, the elder man being fined $25, or three weeks, and the boy being ordered
Atrokes to receive nine with the rattan.
AN UPSET FOR WEST BROMWICH.
NOTTS FOREST BEAT ALBION
BY 3-1.
Britain's Funded Indebtedness to the United States on July 1, 1929, amounted to. G$4,453,000,000,
was.
Gandhi, up to the present, has Interest is payable half-yearly, and it will be redeemed in 62 years received over a hundred resigna- by the operation of a half per cent. tions of officials from twenty-five sinking fund, according to the ar-villages in the Kaira district. rangements of the Funding Com- Gandhi and his followera arriv mission. Mr. Churchill in his Bud-ed at Rans from Borsad this morn- get last year, announced arrangeing, after taking three hours to ments whereby the entire debit cover five miles, would be extinguished in fifty years.
LADY ARTIST'S WORK.
"
EXHIBITION IN HONGKONG NEXT WEEK.
It is understood that Gandhi has changed his plans of march, and does not intend to pass through Baroda. but will march to Jalal- pur, entirely through British ter- ritory. Reuter.
was
Barisal Leader Sentenced.
Barisal, Mar, 19. Sutindranath Sen, the leader of Hongkong art lovers will have the passive resistance movement an opportunity of seeing, and also in the Barisal district, who London, Mar. 19.
purchasing, some of the delightful recently released from Midnapore West Bromwich Albion received works of Miss Elizabeth Keith jail after signing a bond of five a rare shock to-day, suffering de-next week, for an exhibition of her thousand rupees, to be of good be- feat before their own supporters colour prints is to open in the hayiour for two years, has been by three goals
one. Notts former offices of the Industrial sentenced to six months' rigorous Forest were the successful side. and Commercial Bank, in Chater imprisonment in connexion with a and the game was a Second Divi- Road, on Tuesday. It will probab-jail assault charge.-Reuter.
ly last four or five days. sion fixture.-
Oldham Blackpool Chelsea Bury Bradford Cardiff Southampton Wolves Charlton
Tottenham Notts Forest Stoke
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Misa Keith has deservedly won
worldwide reputation as an artist. YOUNG CONSTABLE'S the exhibitions which she has held
London and in the United State: attracting much attention.
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has specialised for many years in
DEATH.
36 Far Eastern studies, and her work PASSES AWAY FROM ÁTTACK 35 is marked by richness of design
and colouring, as well as by
OF FEVER...
beauty, artistic insight and techni The death was reported, this cal skill. Art critics of the lead-morning, of Choi Sze, Chinese ing journals have paid, warm police constable No. 442. He was
West Brom...
24 years of age and a native of Luk 22 13 6 70 86 31 tributes to her ability.
He was Notts County 33 9 19 '48 49 31 Miss Keith's prints have the nai-Tsai village, Hoi Fung. Millwall
715 11 47 59 29 vete of the East, yet she is ambi- admitted to the Government Civi) Reading
11 14 44 58 29 tious in her compositions and Hospital on Friday last, suffering Preston N. E. 33 10 9 14 51 67 29 does not seek to avoid difficulties. from fever, and he passed away Bradford C... 33 9 10 14 50 01 28 As one writer said of her work, we early this morning. Huil
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31 11 6 14 43 57 28 feel that, moving about among Deceased joined the Police Force 34 8 0 17 42-59 25 wonderingly strange sights, she on November 13, 1926, and during 32 8 7 17 47 70 23 has discovered beauty in what his four years association with it, would seem commonplace to the served at the Central, West Point natives of the East..
GENEVA BUREAU IN
NANKING...'
PROPOSED LABOUR OFFICE PROJECT.
Geneva, Mur. 19.
The Correspondence Bureau of the International Labour Office,
THE NEW PEKING GOVERNMENT.
(Continued from Page 1.) Active Negotiations.
Peking, Mar. 19.
the formation of which was de- While Nanking has sent Wa
and Hung Hom stations. He held a First Aid certificate, and was regarded as a conscientious and willing servant. Ec leaves widow, who resides at Bridges Street.
GERMANY'S DIVING.
CHAMPION.
IN HONGKONG.
cided upon last year, following Tieh-chen to Mukden other parties MAY GIVE AN EXHIBITION the visit of M. Albert Thomas. to are actively negotiating, Chang the Far East, is to be opened Hsueh-liang and his delegate, ac- shortly.
a
companied by the Shansi delegate One of the most interesting of who has recently been in Mukden, the visitors to the Colony aboard Mr. C. C. Chan, a Chinese passed here yesterday evening on the round-the-world liner Colum official at the International Labour the way to Taiyuanfu."
bus is Dr. J. Lechnir, the German Office. bag been appointed General Meny Chih-chung, diving champion. He is one of the manager of the Bureau, and he chairman of the Chinghai Provin-world's finest exponents of the is leaving for China on Monday cial Assemble arrived here yes diving art in all its forms, and next to arrange matters with the terday, and went on to Mukden in the Colony's German community la Chinese Government.
the evening to see Chang Hsuehendeavouring to persuade Dr. The Bureau, which will pro-liang on behalf of the Kuomin- Lechnir to give an exhibition here. bably be located in Nanking, will chun
It is thought; highly probable, link between the The fickleness of Shih Yu-san, is
we were informed this morning, Labour Office and the Chinese becoming a standing joke as it la that this will be arranged. If so, Government for the supply of reported that he sent a delegate the exhibition will take place to- impartial Information regarding to Nankingterday with a view labour conditions in China. to joining the Central Government morrow afternoon at the V.R.C.
Baths at five o'clock. aide again. Reuter.
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