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THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER
RADIO PROGRESS
YAT HOME.
EUROPEAN MUSIC CENTRES TO BE HEARD.
TALKS TO AMERICA.
London, Sept, 4.
By an extension of the relay system, British listeners to wire-
few less broadcasts will, in a
THE SACKING OF CHANGSHA.
SIDELIGHTS ON THE INVASION.
CHINESE LOYALTY TO FOREIGNERS.
1930.
WOMAN SEIZES
BURGLAR.
"BADLY INJURED WHEN HIT
WITH CHOPPER.
MAY LOSE FINGERS.
A brave attempt to prevent a burglary by a man who had enter- ed a house at 210, Lockhart Road, Praya East, was related to Mr. Lindsell at the Central Police Court this morning, when a Chi- pese appeared before his Worship on charges of theft of 43 cents and of cutting and wounding a female
months, be connected direct with COUNTRY LAID WASTE. three big European music centres -Vienna, Budapest and Warsaw.
Shanghai, Sept. 1. The success which recently
Although it appears almost attended the relaying of the Salz- burg Mozart Festival in part led certain that the Reds will short-domestic servant.
Detective Inspector M. Murphy to an extension of arrangements ly regain possession of Chang- made possible by the International sha, the events of the last few informed his Worship that the com Broadcast Union, which has its weeks have shown that the feel- plainant was detained in hospital suffering from severe wounds in- headquarters in Genera. Landing of the inhabitants generally, flicted with a chopper, and it was lines of an improved type will if not of the Reds themselves, is possible that she would not be fit provide English listeners with a amazingly different from that of for discharge until a fortnight's broadcast equal in clearness to a 1927. This is the opinion of an| time: studio performance.
experienced resident of Hunan, In detailing the facts to the The British Broadcasting Cor who has recently arrived in Court, the police officer said that poration is also developing com- Shanghai in an interview with the defendant had climbed up the munications with America and
a North China Daily News re-an open window, gained admit- drain pipe and, entering through interchanges of items will be more. frequent in the future.
tance to the floor. He was seen presentative yesterday. América will shortly hear,
In 1927, the evacuated foreigners by a female servant, who seized among other items, a series of suffered a good deal from the co-him; but the defendant dragged talks entitled "England Calling" operation of their servants with her into the kitchen where he had to which Sir Oliver Lodge, H. G. the invading marauders. This intended to jump from the win- Wells, John Masefield and other year, the outbreak has been re-dow. Finding his efforts to free famous Englishmen will contri-markable for the extraordinary himself from the amah unsuccess- loyalty of the Chinese servants ful, he picked up a chopper and bute.-British Wireless.
and the Chinese colleagues of the aimed several blows at the servant, foreigners:
who was forced to release her hold.
AMBULANCE BRIGADE AND MACAO.
VISIT BY 300 IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
1.
Macao, Sept. 2. It is expected that Macao will soon be visited by a number of the Hongkong Division of the St. John Ambulance Brigade according to an announcement made by a firm of caterers in this colony. Mr. Altred Morris, District Superintendent, paid a visit to Macno on Sunday last, to make the necessary arrange- ments for the proposed visit and is reported to have said that the visi tors will number about three hun- dred.
r:
Accommodation for the visitors will be provided by either the Sat On, or Tung On, which the owners have agreed to place at the disposal of members of the Ambulance Brigade at reduced rates.
The newa has been well received in Macao, and the forthcoming visit will be looked forward to with considerable interest, as yet an- other phase in the development of friendly relations between the two colonies. Our Own Correspondent.
"RED" PLOT IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
FENCE ELECTRIFIED TO MEET POLICE.
Instance after instance has oc- curred where the servants deliber ately removed their masters" furni- ture and effects in order to preserve them from the impending orgy of looting.'
The defendant rushed to the window to make good his escape, but, on seeing the height of the premises, decided to find other He rushed means of escape, through to the front of the floor,: but the master of the house, who Demonstrations of Friendship. by this time had been aroused, im- Foreigners returning to Chang-mediately pounced upon the man sha the other day after the first and held him until the police were evacuation were received with de sent for monstrations of friendship and affection which surprised even the most experienced of them. truth, of the matter is that
INDIAN PEACE TALKS FAIL.
Breakdown in Negotiations with Gandhi.
HOPES NOT REALISED.
Bombay, Sept; 4.
The peace negotiations with Gandhi have broken down
This follows the recent an- nouncement by Sir Tej Sapru that he and 'Mr. Jayakar were going to Poona with a letter from the Nehrus to Gandhi and that the result of the negotiations would depend on Gandhi's reply.-Reuter."
The
the
In reply to his Worship, the pro- Becuting officer said that the com- plainant would probably lose two of her fingers, while she was also suffering from injuries to her head and face. She was in no immedi- ate danger.
On the application of the police, the defendant was remanded for three days in police custody.
SOME RAIN.
THE RETURN
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BROADWAY MELODY
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Bach moment of this great motion picture (crvesla miracles of the Talking Screen! You beat everything from start to frush; but nothing like it ever before! Unbelievable wha magic of drama, spec- tacle, music, dance have bee blended her to create the Giana Emtertainmen of our done. "The Broadway Mel ady" ushers' in...a new ets of. the living werven and with its golden voice, amidst scenes of
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CHARLES KING, ANITA PAGE, BESSIE LOVE
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-FOX MOVIETONE NEWS-
St. Moritz opens ICE HOCKEY season Ice SPEED STARS exhibit. Gypsies at play.
The Royal Observatory reports that an anticyclone is central near Vladivostock. The typhoon is about 250 miles north of Guam, moving N.W. The local forecast AT THE is:-Light northerly or variable winds; generally overcast, some rain.
Nationalist Bookshop Wiped Out.
Whereas, for example, they com- pletely wiped out the shop of the Chung Hua Book Co., which they accused of being devoted to the sale of Nationalist literature they spared such part of the Commer population generally are begin-cial Press in Changsha which did ning to discriminate between the various factors responsible for the present situation.
not concern itself with that litera- ture, only destroying all its copies of the "San Min Chu 1" and com- mentaries thereon!
Adelaide, Sept. 4. The discovery of a Communist The Reds in town or country are
People are by no means con- plot in South Australia was re- ruthless in their attempt to com- vealed by the State Premier, the pel obedience to their new social vinced that Gen. Ho Chien is Hon. Mr. Hill, when he introduced law but they are a very small either a reliable supporter of the a Bill to the State Parliament minority of the masses. Ninety-Nanking Government or a redoubt- empowering the Government to nine per cent. do not want them. able organizer. His troops. deal with a atrike of the Carters' In Changsha also their destruc-unpaid and are very unreliable- and Drivers Union as a protest tion was systematic and organized. against the employment of volun- teer labour at the docks.
Missionary's Experience,
Mr. Hill said that a Police raid
One German missionary return- had revealed interference with the electric cables, lending to an inter-ing to Changsha after the evacua- ruption of the electric light tion the other day recognized many supply. In addition, a fence had of his personal books and chattels been electrified with the intention in the house of local coolies. He of causing fatalities to a police had only to point out his owner- patrol. He declared that South ship of these effects to obtain im- Australia had been selected for mediate possession of them again the plot owing to financial difficul- accompanied by laughter and ties. The Seamen's Union has mutual congratulations. given notice of an intention to In their attack on the Nation- strike in sympathy with the car-alist Government, the Reds can ters and drivers-Reuter.
KUIECHOW IN A COLLISION.
STRUCK RYUHO MARU IN
CANTON RIVER.
are
While there are large tracts in Hunad, notably the central part of the province, where the peasants refuse to assist the steadfastly Communists and where there has been very little disturbance, there is little doubt that between Chang- sha and Nanchang the Commun- ists are in almost full control.
The Communists have laid
waste the countryside of Ping- hsian and Liuyang till most of the population have fled in terror and the villages are empty!
May-Shoot Parents.
They bring, however, a kind of command a certain measure of popular sympathy but the moment "hope" to a people dulled with this attack develops in the form years of civil war and hate-and some idealistically inclined people of anti-foreign activities, Byzm-
may follow them. They promise. pathy becomes Jukewarm. For example, a number of workmen in "salvation." They, are well-or- an important foreign shipping ganized and well fed and they They compel the company, urged to burn the build are well paid. ings in which their firm was hous people of the countryside to join their organizations and, ed, retorted that the action would do them no good for it would baving joined, they may be shot without question for disobedience merely mean the loss of their em-even if the order is to shoot
their own parents!
Courageous Acts.
Arriving here from Canton yes- terday afternoon, Capt. D.ployment. Williams, master of the s.8. Kufe
In the long run, economic laws chow, reported to the Harbour
may render futile the attempt to Office that on September 2 the The Communists, it is true, loot-control, but the fact remains that, Kulechow collided with theed and burnt meat mission build by concentrating on propaganda. Japanese steamer Ryuho Maru in inga and all Government build- and compulsion, the Communista the Canton river, a 10% a
The impact was very slight and ings, but where the Chinese staff have been able in the country dis had good warning, the buildings tricts to establish some kind of little damage was sustained by had been previously stripped of as popular support, although in the the two vessels involved. ***
It is believed that when the much as possible of their contents towna, like Changsha, they are de collision took place the Japanese which were taken to a suitable finitely unpopular and the stability of their occupation should not be steamer had been aground for place of hiding.
In one building, a Chinese not long lived.
However, some time, owing to the low water. only completed this spring clean-
with ing but also locked the door in the heavily obsessed by the campaign face of the Communist troops, with against the North, the chances of the result that the delay which the Communists obtaining, renewed occurred together with the good-looting in Changsha are exceeding will and active help of neighbourly bright and the inhabitants are Ing shopkeepers, saved the build therefore likely to be exposed to ing from sharing, the fate of further danger. From many London, Sept. 4.
others.com points, the withdrawal of the for- In the Southern Section of the In short, the attitude of the eigners, unavoidable though it be, Third Division of English League population generally has been to is to be regretted, for there is little to-day, Clapton Orient defeated feel that the foreigners are with doubt that, it is to the foreigners Newport by three goals to one them in the fight against the that the people are looking for guid Reuter,
ance and support.
CLAPTON O. WIN. BEAT NEWPORT BY THRE£ GOALS TO:ONE.
Communists.
Nanking
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