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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1930.
EGYPTIANS ARRIVE COMMONS AND CHINA
IN LONDON.
BOISTEROUS WELCOME BY
. STUDENTS.
TRAFFIC HELD UP.
The
London, Mar. 20. Foreign Secretary, Mr. Arthur Henderson, together with officials of the Foreign Office and Egyptian Legation, to-night met the Egyptian Prime Minister, Nahas Pasha, and other members of the Egyptian delegation who have come to London to negotiate a settlement of outstanding Anglo- Egyptian questions..
A boisterous reception was accorded the delegation on its arrival. Fleets of taxicabs, flaunting the Egyptian colours and inscribed with nationalist slogans, disorganised the normal.traffic.
CRISIS.
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Meanwhile, Nanking aeroplanes, sent to watch the movements of the Kuominchun forces in Honan, have returned and have reported that making use of the rolling stock of the Peking-Hankow Rail- Way, the Kuominchun forces are pouring into districts along the Honan-Hupeh frontiers.
Nationalist Defences,
THIRD DIVISION STRUGGLE.
BRENTFORD'S FINE WIN AT
BOURNEMOUTH. :'
PLYMOUTH GO NAP.
London, Mar. 26.
with six
Glasgow Rangers, games remaining on their pro- gramme, require two points only--- or the defeat of Aberdeen-to en- Much military activity is, also sure the retention of the Scottish taking place on the Tlantsin-League championship. At Ayr to- Pukow Railway. Between Pukow day, they won 3-0. and Hsuchowfu the Nationalists have erected no fewer than five to-day, resulting, says Reuter, as A series of matches were played defensive lines, each with strong follows: artillery and large contingents of troops.
Marshal Chiang Kai-shek arrived at Hange how this after- noon with his wife and Mr. Chang Ching-kiang. It is understood that Marshal Chiang intends to Plymouth
M. Briand arrived by the same train and his welcoming party was completely forced into the back- ground by bands of frantic Egypt-inspect the fortifications along the Peking-Hankow and Tientsin. in students, flag-wagging and shouting, from whom'a cordon of
Pukow Railways." police with dilleulty extricated Nahas Pasha and other members of the delegation.
The negotiations will be based upon the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty published last August after con- versations in London between Mahmud Pasha, then Egyptian Premier, and Mr. Henderson. These proposals were described by Mr. Henderson, in a covering letter.
representing as
"the extreme limit to which he could recommend the British Govern- ment to go in their desire to achieve a lasting and honourable
settlement."
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Nahas Pasha, who, after the Egyptian Parliamentary election, succeeded Mahmud Pasha Prime Minister, issued in February a statement describing the proposed Treaty as prompted by a spirit of conciliation and saying he had received from the Egyptian Parliament a mandate to make the present journey to London to negotiate.
The British High Commissioner, Sir Percy Loraine, is already in London and will assist in the negotiations.-Reuter and British
Wireless.
HAWKER'S BRIBE EXCUSE.
SAYS CONSTABLE DEMANDED
CURRIED CHICKEN. -
First Division.
Huddersfield 1 Middlesbro,
Third Division (South).
Bournemouth 1 Brentford
5 Swindon
Third Division (North).
Wrexham
# Barrow Scottish League.
Marshal Feng Yu-halang has left Tungkwan and is understood to be with the Kuominchun Army Morton now proceeding towards Yoyang. Ayr United
3 Hearts
0 Rangers.
3 Hamilton
0
The revised Southern table follows:
Chengchow, an important posi- Clydo tion in Honan, has been occupied without, opposition by the Kuo- minchun forces.
Brentford Plymouth Brighton
P.-W. D. L. F. A. Pts.
34 24 4 6 83 34 32
32 21 8 3 74 20
32 19 7 6 75 40 48
13.12 8 54 40 38
33 14 9
Hostilities Commence.
Northampton 33 18 4 11 59 41 40 Peking, Mar. 26. Southend 33 18 19 Shih Yu-san is reported to have Bournemouth 33 13 12.8 taken the offensive against Han Fu- Norwich chu and captured Ningling, near Queen's P.R.
Fulham Kweiteh, while Sun Tien-ying is acting on the defensive eastward of Coventry
Crystal Pal Kweiteh.
Exeter Other Shanai and Kuominchun forces are hastening to their assis- Clapton Q.
Swindon
tance.
Luton
The Central Government is send-port ing reinforcements to Han Fu-chu, Walsal and a Government aeroplane is re- Torquay connoitring the vicinity-Reuter, Bristol R. Gillingham Merthyr
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DISPUTE.
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aerials the Government got a cheap wavelength.
The Rugby system gave great economies in landlines.
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43897978888484482IONNN, £2979885558838876687587
RUSSIA (OFFICIALLY)
PROSPEROUS.
WORKERS OUTPUT DOUBLED,
All information which emanates from Russian official sources is notoriously tainted with propa- In order to operate the wireless ganda, and no one has discovered system they must have a system of any reason to suppose that Rus- landlines from the central trunk sian official statistics are exempt exchange in London to the wire-from the general rule. less station... Those landlines The General Representative Saying it was in response to aut were very expensive and by con abroad of the U.S.S.R. Finance Indian Sergeant's demand for centrating their services on one Commissariat, whose office is in "curried chicken" that he gave site they saved considerable Berlin, has published a statistical him a bribe of 30 cents was the money. Rugby and Baldock were review of economic conditions in excuse put forward by a hawker a great deal nearer to London than Russia for the year ended Septem- who appeared before Mr. Whyte Grimsby, Skegness, Bodmin, and ber, 1929, many items of which Smith, at the Kowloon Magistracy Bridgwater, where the bear are calculated to impress the this morning, on charges of fail-
stations were situated, so that world outside. ing to produce his licence and of
while the beam stations required giving a police officer a bribe.
The defendant admitted hoth counts and intimated that when he was arrested the Indian asked him for "curried chicken."
Sergeant Barnicle said the de- fendant was originally arrested for hawking without a licence. but it was subsequently discover- ed that he possessed a licence which he had left at home. It was not quite clear why he should have given the Sergeant the thirty cents.
Take coal, for instance.
In
4,192 miles of circuit, Rugby and 1929 Russia claims to have pro- Baldock required only 785.
duced 38,500,000 tons, compared with 31,000,000 tons in 1927, and Question Dropped.
27,000,000 tons in 1913. Oil pro- Comparing the 130 of the duction has risen from 8,800,000 Rugby system with the best offer tons in 1913, and 10,100,000 tonsi
the made by Communications) in 1927, to 13,400,00 in 1929. Company, there would be a saving of £20,000 to £30,000.
Iron production is given Os about 80 per cent, of the pre-war The Postmaster General added level, but it has increased by 40 that the Government had recently per cent. since 1927.. heard from the Canadian Govern- Steel production, has increased ment that they preferred a direct by 50 per cent. in the last two His Worship pointed out the service with this country to a years, and now exceeds the pre- seriousness of offering a police service via New York, and this war figure. Leather production officer z bribe and imposed a fine would be provided. The Govern has increased by 70 per cent, in of $2 on the first charge but regiment were also willing to open a the last two years.. stered a caution on the second, re- marking that the original offence was not a very serious one.
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PIANO & DANCING RECITAL.
HELENA MAY INSTITUTE FUNCTION.
A pianoforte recital by Mr. Horry Ore, assisted by Miss Winifred Hen- derson (dancing) is to be given at Thursday the Helena May Institute next at 5.30 p.m. The programme is: 1-32. Variations in C minor
service with the Argentine as soon The average number of indus- as the House gave authority, and trial workers in 1929 is 2,300,00, negotiations with the Egyptian an increase of 300,000 over 1927, Government were making satis-The output per man has increased factory progress.
by 100 per cent, as compared with The question was automatically 1919, but this advance in produc- dropped at private business time. tivity is counterbalanced by an -Reuter and British. Wireless. increase in the average number of unemployed from 1,2240,00 in 1927 to 1,520,000 in 1929.
STOLEN BRANDY.
COOLIE TELLS DIFFERENT STORIES.
A bottle of Martell brandy was Beethoven produced at the Kowloon Magis-
·
The only department where setback is recorded is agriculture. Here we find that 85,000 tons of grain
exported in 1929 against 2,200,000 tons in 1927 and 10,600,000 tons in 1913..
were
2.Dance Solo."The Autumn tracy this morning as an exhibit INDIAN COTTON MILLS.
Music by Chaminade in a case in which a coolie was 3-Second Sonata Chopin charged with being in possession
(a) Grave-Doppio (b) Scherza,
(e) Marche Funebre.
Presto
(d)
4-Eelsazar's Feast
movimento.of the wine, reasonably suspected
(a) Oriental Procession.
(b) Solitude.
(c) Night Music. (d) Khadra's Dance.
of having been stolen or unlawful- ly obtained on board the Sibelius D'Artagnan.
Scriabin
6-Pathetic - Etude .. GOperatic Dance Solo-
"Love's Joy," Music by Kreisler 7-Second Hungarian Rhapsody
SOME RAIN.
Liszt
5.5,
The defendant said he had gone on the ship and a sailor had broken a case from which he had extract ed two bottles, giving him one of them.
A. BIG AMALGAMATION CONTEMPLATED,
Bombay, Mar. 26. r. Negotiations between the Go- vernment of India and the Bombay mill-owners for rationalisation of cotton mills are still proceed ingee het?
Detective Sergeant Humphreys Following the announcement in said the defendant was arrested January that a number of mills as he was leaving the ship with were amalgamating, it is now the bottle of brandy in his pos- stated that a combine of fifty session. ac was taken to the mills is contemplated, and it is officers and then sent to the Police hoped the Imperial Bank of India Station. The vessel in the mean will provide a necessary loan- time had left port. If the ship Reuter The Royal Observatory reports had still been in harbour, the de- that depressions are shown over fendant would have been charged the Lower Yangtsze Valley and with larceny. He first informed fiver Indo-China. Coastal fog. the police that he had found the The local forecast is S.E. er brandy, but later remarked that it Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK P variable winds, moderate; general had been given to him
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