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You'll thrill and be amused over the strange advantures which befall a modern Lady Godive, who uses a closed cir instead a white horre and rides through the thoroughfales of Holy- wood. She rivals Perping T m for he curiosity and dexterity in parking through curtains.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1930.
CHINESE TROOPS SHAMROCK GETTING HUMPHREYS & CO. |ẤT THÀ
MUTINY.
SZECHUAN CAPITAL
INCIDENT.
RAIDS ON BARRACKS AND GOVERNMENT OFFICES,
DOCUMENTS TAKEN.
READY.
MAY BE SURPRISE FOR DEFENDERS.
AMERICAN OPINION.
Newport (R.I.), Sept. 10.- The work of cleaning up the
FAILURE.
| PUBLIC EXAMINATION OF PARTNER,
SHOULD HAVE BEEN HELD FIVE YEARS AGO.
BANKRUPTCY CAUSE.
Shamrock's hull, which was going on yesterday, has proceeded apače. Most of it is being done by the British crew, who are engaged in Depression of trade, bad con-. polishing, painting and scraping tannery were the causes attri- ditions and a heavy loss on a and making the challenger more buted by Mr. Alfred David beautiful than ever for the launch-Humphreys to the bankruptcy
ing to-morrow.
American opinion is typically optimistic of the success of the Enterprise, asserting that the chal- lenger is not quite speedy enough.
Shanghai, Sept. 10. Chungking, the capital of Szechuan Province, where a big fire recently devasted over 5,000 houses, was the scene last week of a serious muting when two regiments of the 21st Nation- alist Army suddenly revolted with the intention of creating disturbances against the Nan- king officers administering the Provincial Government. The Nevertheless, all realise that Sir
ceedings were before the Court in remoteness of Chungking ex-Thomas. Lipton may have some-1925, it was taken for granted that plains the delay in the arrival thing up his sleeve capable of both ivere examined at the same of the authentic messages con- surprising his confident op-time. It had since transpired, cerning the mutiny, which pents.-Reuter's 'American Service. however, that Mr. A. D. Humphreys
had not been examined. actually occurred on Thursday.
New York, Sept. 10. A secret alliance between the Regarding the discussion as to the discontented regiments and the "legality of the yacht Enterprise's militarists in Peking la understood adjustable main boom, Sir Thomas to be the cause of the revolt, which Lipton has sportingly ridiculed the surprised the loyalists at Chung-ides of protesting. He said. "I shall king. The mutineers controlled the greater part of the capital throughout the morning and raid-; ed the military barracks and some of the Government offices,
Apart from the destruction of important documents" and loss of arms and ammunition, the Govern- ment has suffered little and the .mutineers were eventually over- come after a brief encounter. The regiments later retreated towards Kweichow.
War Situation,
The arrival along the Peking- Hankow Railway of fresh Nation- alist Divisions from the Tsinanfu front, together with General Liu Chih, recently appointed Com-: mander-in-Chief of the Nationalist attackers
the along
Peking. Hankow Railway, has marked the commencement of & Nationalist assault against Hsuchang since Monday.
camm
AIR LINER COMES TO
GRIEF..
Pilot and Mechanic Both
Incinerated.
CRASH NEAR CROYDON.
London, Sept. 11.
A Belgian air liner employ- ed on night service crashed in the early hours of this morn- ing outside Croydon.
The pilot and mechanic were both incinerated.-Reuter.
boat the be delighted to meet any New York Yacht Club, put against me. I am sure we shall give them a good race."
·
Nationalist sources state that 401 Nationalist Divisions are stationed along the Peking-Hankow and Lung-Hai Railways and simultaneous attack against the Kuominchun forces will be, order- Sir Thomas is already most popular, ed in the not distant future, and his photographs appear in the Large quantities of Nanking am-newspapers daily. The remark munition have been dispatched to the races I would like to
dominating 'the average discussion of the Peking-Hankow Railway front, him win the Cup. He has tried hard
enough." Kuominchun Move,
dee
Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang is
Meanwhile, Sir Thomas is almost understood to have withdrawn all hiding-aboard his steam yacht Erin, declining numerous invitations to the Kuominehun reserves from garden parties, dinners and luncheons. Kansu Province in readiness for-Reuter's American Service. a big counter-attack along the Lung-Hai Railway, with Kweiteh,
n the immediate objective.
Marshal Feng reports to Peking ASIATIC IMMIGRATION
that he has
concentrated 12
Divisions of troops along
the
Lung-Hai Railway, which is in-
BANNED.
dicative of his determination to CANADA PLAN TO COPE WITH defend the strong Kuominchun headquarters in Honan.
at
UNEMPLOYMENT.
Martial law was enforced
Ottawa, Sept.10. Tientsin this morning, and it is In the House of Commons to-day understood that, the precaution the Prime Minister announced that was maintained in connexion with among, the Government's measures a Peking military commander's to cope with unemployment is the departure for the front. He is complete prohibition of all Asiatic passing through Tientsin some imigration except from countries time to-day,
with which Canada has a special agreement,
Visit to Mukden.
The Nanking Finance Minister. The Order in Council even with Mr. T. V. Soong, arrived at draws the discretion hitherto given Tsingtao yesterday on a Japanese to immigration officials to admit steamer from Shanghai and left bona fide workers and relatives.- for Tsinanfu in the evening to Router's American Service. confer with the officials of the new Tsinanfu Provincial Government.
It is understood that the Finance Minister takes with him important instructions from the Nanking Government on his way to Mukden to interview the Manchurian leaders.
General Han Fu-chu and his staff officer's have assumed the post of Civil Governor and members of
COMING SCHNEIDER CUP RACE.
UNITED STATES LIKELY TO ENTER.
of Messrs. W. G. Humphreys and Co., upon which insolvency he was publicly examined before Mr. Justice Wood this morning. Mr. E. P. H. Lang, the Official Receiver, said the bankruptcy was of two partners, and when the pro-
Mr. Humphreys said he wILS A late partner of the firm of Messrs.
G. Humphreys and Co. On the date of the bankruptcy, in 1925 he was partner in the firm with his brother. Mr. Ernest Humphrey. A third brother was also a partner up to 1923, when he was given notice, of dissolution.
Invested $90,000.
was
Witness joined the company in 1920, when he invested $90,000 in the business. This had been left to him by his father. He satisfied at the time that he was going into a good business. From enquiries made he had learned that the firm, prior to that time, had; been doing very well, but from the time he joined things went badly. Just after he joined the yearly pro-" fits grew less and less until the time of the bankruptcy in 1925.
He attributed the cause of the failure to depressed trade, bad conditions, and a heavy loss on a tannery, whilst the Swatow branchi also showed a loss. The business' was one of commission merchants for imports and exports. The tannery project was a big loss and never prospered.
In 1924 they considered them- selves solvent, and it was not until 1925 that things went very much against them.
Auditors Employed.
In reply to His Lordship, witness anid that the fim employed audi- tors to audit the accounts.
and
been
Was
The firm was a very old one in the Colony and he anticipated that as a result the trade marks and good will of the firm would fetch a considerable sum. It had established fifty years very much liked by the Chinese. He naturally thought that the good- will would fetch a good gum, and influenced by that they put in for a sum of $25,000. As a matter of fact the goodwill was actually worthless and the trade marks fetched but very little
had been present in the Colony, and Throughout the bankruptcy he
had at all times given assistance when required by the liquidators, and had always answered any ques- tions.
The company had a branch in Swatow and London, but the Swatow branch was a big loss, and was closed in 1922-23. The liabili ties were those of the firm.
His Lordship observed that the final dividend had been paid and given that Mr. Humphreys had
therefore every assistance. He ordered the examination to be closed.
STABBED FRIEND FOR $3.
BULLY CAPTURED BY PORTUGUESE.
"You must be a very mean man to stab your friend so aavagely for the sake of $3," remarked Mr. Whyte Sndth; at the Kowloon
Magistracy this morning, to
the Provincial Government of Shantung respectively and Mr. T reached Plymouth to-day from defendant named -Pang Loi who
V. Soong officiated at the simple ceremony which took place this morning at Tsinanfu.'
General's Brother Captured.
Peking, Sept. 10. Tang Seng-ming, a brother of Gen. Tang Seng-chih, is reported to have been captured at Hengehow, Hunan, while working in co-opera- tion with the Kwangsi faction.---- Reuter.
BRITISH MARINES AT SANTO DOMINGO.
LAND IN ORDER TO GIVE ASSISTANCE.
London, Sept. 10. Flight-Lieutenant Atcherley, the British-Schreiter Trophy pilot Chicago where he attended the American National Air Pageant. He said he believed the United States would be entering for next year's Schneider Trophy Race, as well as France and Italy
British Wireless.
AUSTRALIANS' LAST MATCH.
ENGLAND XI. MAKES A FAIR SCORE.
а
was charged with having mall- clously wounded Wong Sang on August 17th, in the night of Yaumati.
Evidence allowed that the com plainant was in bed on the night in question when he was awaken- ed by the defendant calling to him to come out into he street. When he went down, the defen dant asked him to repay him 32.80 which he owed, and when complainant replied that he had not yet received his pay, he whipped out a knife and stabbed. him three times in the, cheat and
arms,
London, Sept. 10. The evidence given Included The Australians started the last that of Mr. E. M. Souza, a dancing match of their English tour at teacher, who said he saw defen- New York, Sept. 10, Scarborough to-day, when they dant chasing the complainant, A message from Santo Domingo met an England XI.
who was calling out for help states that British Marines and a
Witness sprang at defendant and medical unit from HM.S. Danae, The English team batted first grabbed him by his neck. WIE landed at Santo, Domingo to assist and at the close of play had scored ness's friends emptied defendant's the authorities and to relieve the 218 runs for the loss of nine pockets and a closed clasp knife troops who have been guarding wickets. Sandham WIS top dropped out.. the city since the hurricane. scorer, with, 69 to his credit. Defendant was sentenced to Reuter's American Service.
three months' imprisonment.
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