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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1930.
BRITISH CLAIMS NEW PLANET'S PATH PRAYA MYSTERY
ON SOVIET.
WATCHED.
SETTLEMENT NEGOTIATIONS SENATE DEBATE ON DOUBTS
IN PROGRESS.
SOLVED.
JUNK FOKI WHO HANGED HIMSELF.
STATEMENT SHORTLY.cently discovered by the Lowell BODY LATER DUMPED.
London, Apr. 2. In the House of Commons to- day, Mr. Arthur Henderson, Foreign Secretary, Was asked whether he had yet urged upon the Soviet Ambassador the rights British claimants upon the Soviet Government and pressed for the recognition and settlement of the debts due to them,
Dr.
of
OF EXISTENCE.
Washington, Apr. 2. The new planet which was re-
Observatory in Arizona-was-the- subject of a debate in the Senate to-day. The debate was especially in relation to the reports from Europe and elsewhere reflecting doubts of such a planet's existence. nomer of Chicago University, said, Professor MacMillan, the astro- "About all we can say at present is that something is there."
A resolution was moved that the new planet be named Icarus. Of ficials of the Lowell Observatory have issued a statement which shows that the planet's course has been followed closely, and its mo- tion is continuously along the
Hugh Dalton, Foreign Under-Secretary, replied in the affirmative. He said the object of the negotiation's now proceed- ing was to agree upon suitable trans-Neptunian path. - Reuter's machinery for consideration of American Service. these claims.
It was hoped that the present stage of negotiations would be completed before Easter, and he would then be able to make # statement-British Wireless.
It has been stated that the British creditors' claims on the
Soviet total more than £300,000,- 000, mostly made up of the value of confiscated properties and loans for industrial and famine relief purposes. On the other hand, the Soviet is said to have! many claims offsetting this total.
ANCIENT MUSKETS.
DANGEROUS TO THOSE WHO
USE THEM.
NO INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA.
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carefully considered by the Foreign office. He declined to publish the
communications received from the British Ambassador in Moscow.
Wrong Place for Discussion. Lord Ponsonby, replying to Lords Brentford, Buckmaster and New- ton, said he did not question the accuracy of the Primate's state- ment but if the question was to be kept outside politics on the high plane of pure religion, the House of Lords was the wrong place to
discuss it.
The overwhelming proof de- manded by Lord Parmoor was evidence of what the newspapers used to call "butchery". There was no proof of that.
The mystery surrounding the discovery of the body of a Chinese on the Fraya yesterday which show- ed marks of strangulation by a rope, has been cleared up, the man having committed suicide.
in the road there was no evidence When the body was first found
to show whether the cause of death was murder or suicide, but the au- thorities, in the course of their sub sequent Investigations, discovered that the body was that of Tang Chik, a junk foki, aged 48, who committed suicide on board a con- servancy junk, whch was alongside Jardine's Wharf, by hanging him-- self with a rope from the mast- head.
The body was evidently later cut down by some persons, and dump- ed on the sea front at Kennedy Town.
It is officially stated that four men have been detained in con- ⚫nexion with the dumping of the body and will probably be charged at the Central Magistracy in the near future.
During a search for opium an board a junk which had arrived in the harbour yesterday, revenue officers failed to locate any drug He doubted whether the debate bat found two muskets for which would do anything but harm. It the master had not taken out a would be hotly resented by Rus- permit from the local authorities, sians indulging in damnable and Two of the occupants appeared he intolerant religious persecution, fore Mr. Whyte Smith, at the Kow-but we must not give up any at- leon Magistracy this morning, tempt to understand the Soviet charged with unlawful possession. system and character. The debate His Worship intimated that the then ended.-Reuter and British
Wireless. weapons were very old, to which Detective Sergeant Humphreys re-. plied that they were as great, a; danger to the firer as to the person fired at. They were rusty and one of them had the trigger disman- tled. The Superintendent had been consulted and he instructed the officer to take the men before the Magistrate to have the wea pons confiscated without any penalty being imposed. They wanted to make it known that junk masters had to secure per- mits for such arms.
SHANTUNG FACES BIG CRISIS.
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THIEF CAUGHT BY WIRELESS.
DETECTIVES HEAR EVERY SOUND.
An astonished night watchman, pounced upon by detectives 43 he was in the act of pilfering from his employers, is probably wondering "how it was done."
He had imagined himself alone in the building. but for three hours detectives in a small room under the roof had been listening by wire leas to his every sound.
able to locate the exact spot where They heard his footsteps, were
he was and, at the right moment, captured him.
A firm of cigarette manufacturers in the East-end had been suffering severe losses of stock totailing hundreds of pounds. They were unable to trace the leakage, and enlisted the aid of the Marconiphone Co.
An engineer, in the guise of a telephone inspector, concealed three. microphones at strategic points, and connected them to a sensitive five-valve amplifier under the roof. Here one night the detectives put on headphones and settled down. for a long vigil. At first they heard only the mysterious creakings and whisperings which one seems hear in every building at dead of A Nanking decree appoints night. The defendants stated that theyGeneral Han Fu-chu as Comman-
the had been given the weapons as der of the Nationalist defenders sound of soft footsteps and rust- presents and had never fred them. in Shantung, to be assisted byling paper came to their ears.
General Ma Hung-kwei.
in ordering their confiscation, his Worship remarked that they were more like rurios than any- thing else.
BOY RISKS LIFE FOR CAT.
DARING CLIMB UP FORTY FEET POPLAR.
At the risk of his life a 17-year- old youth named Lealie Wilson, of Hamlet-road, Upper Norwood, slender climbed to the top of a poplar tree, 40ft. high, in Ken- nington Churchyard, and rescued a black cat.
The story of the rescue was told by the Rev. Dr. Darlington, Vicar of Kennington,
"I saw the eat at the top of the tree in the evening," he said, "but knowing that it would be unsafe for anyone to climb, I did not feel in- clined to suggest rescue. The cat stayed up there all night.
The following evening I was
astonished to see A young 22:4477 swaying at the top of the tree, and attempting to get hold of the cat.
ment there is no reason why he cannot utilise his strong army of 50,000 men, including two regi- ments of artillery, to defend Tsinanfu.
Then, close on 12 n'clock,
to
By switching to each microphone
For three days there has been in turn, the detectives were able no news from Mukden regarding to locate the origin of the sound. the altitude of General Chang They crept downstairs and two Hsueh-liang. This morning,
of the watekers confronted the man Shanghai newspapers atate that as he came out from the back door Marshal Chiang Kai-shek has re- with hundreds of cigarettes under quested General Chang to dispatch his arm. some of his north-western fleet of gunbonts to relieve Shantung.
"JOURNEY'S END."
ALLEGED SMUGGLING TO BE PLAYED HERE VERY
BY PLANE.
ENDURANCE FLIER HELD IN MEXICO.
SHORTLY.
Mr. R. W. Wingrove, represent- ing "The Quaints," Mr. R. B. Saliз- bury's well-known company, arrived here to-day from Singa- pore and India, where the Com-
has pany
been breaking all New York, Apr. 2. The aeroplane which was pre "Journey's End," the famous war records, bringing the news that! sented to Messrs. Mendell and play, is shortly to be staged in the Reinhart after their re-fuelling en- Colony. durance flight last year has been This play, an is known, has confiscated, and Mendell, who was beaten all records and is at pre- in the plane, held in custody by sent being played in practically the Mexican Customs officials on every capital of the world, in the border of lower California on seven different languages.
. In
a charge of conspiring to smuggle bringing it to Hongkong, Mr. Japanese into the country by Salisbury is giving us a rare treat, means of an aeroplane.
which no-one should miss
the 11th
the plane which, in July last year, Theatre, Kowloon, on
Mendell was the chief pilot of The season opens at the Star
established a new record by flying instant, and booking, opens to- "He managed to get hold of the continuously for 10 days 6 hours morrow at Moutrie's and at the animal, and, holding it in his arms, 44 minutes, easily beating the pre-Star Theatre. stowly came down the tree whilstvious record of 7 days 6 hours 50
we who were watching him cheered.minutes.-Reuters American Ser-
"The lad was extraordinarily | vice, medest. For a long time he refused
to give me his name, saying it was
all in the day's work."
Dr. Darlington added that Wilson undoubtedly risked his life.
EUROPEAN MISSING.
WIRELESS OPERATOR ON THE "SEISTAN".
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR NAVAL BASE.
MR. TOM SHAW MAKES A PROMISE.
THE PRINCE'S TOUR ENDING.
TO FLY FROM SUDAN TO CAIRO.
London, Apr. 2. It is officially announced at Calro that' the. Prince of Wales will arrive there from Sudan by London, Mar. 20. air on the 17th instant and will In the House of Commons Rear- embark on a P. & O. liner at Port Admiral T. Beamish, C.B., R.N., Said on the 20th-British Wire. the Unionist member for Lewes, less. Richard Barnett, a wireless asked a question with regard to operator on the s.s. Seistan, fa the instalments of the contribu- missing, according to a police re- tions by the Malay States and New port, issued this morning.
Zealand towards the cost of the Singapore Naval Base.
-
GENERALLY OVERCAST.
The Royal Observatory reports When the ship left here yester- Mr. Tom Shaw, the Secretary the north of Japan. Pressure is that the anticyclone is central to day for Amoy, it sailed without for War, replied that there was no relatively low over Western China. Barnett, who had been absent intention on the Government's part Moderating monsoon along the since Monday.
to receive the money without ful- coast of China and over the North A description of the missing@lling
obligatione which man has been circulated amongat such acceptance involved. Straits China Sea. The local forecast is the various stations
East winds, fresh to moderate; Times.
generally overcast.
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