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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1931.
PICKPOCKET GANG|
ARRESTED.
CAUGHT IN THE ACT AT
NEW YEAR FAIR.
CHARGED IN COURT.
RIVER STEAMER AGROUND.
TIN YAT GOES ASHORE IN BAD WEATHER.
HOME INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION.
BY FAR THE BIGGEST IN THE WORLD.
AT THE
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QUEEN'S
SEAMEW STANDS BY. OPENING ON MONDAY.
Three adult Chinese were bes
Adverse weather conditions on
London, Fets. 12. fore Mr. Lindsell this morning, the Canton, River are said to be
The British Industries
Fair. charged with being members of a responsible for a mishap to the which has grown into by far the gang of pickpockets who yester river steamer Tin Yal, which largest trade exhibition in the day successfully operated on. Anjaccording to n message received world, and which Is held in two unwars pedestrain going fo
thein Hongkong this morning, has sections, one in London and the nese New Year fair. Chinese
gone aground on Pratt Rocks, near other in Birmingham, begins on The proserating police officer, Brera Tigris.
Monday and remains open until in applying for a remand In order
The ss. Tin Yat (Capt.-Going? February 27th.
T
watchman in
The
to enable the police to locate theplies on the Hongkong-Canton run. Buyers have come to the event, vietim, stated that their move- maintaining ít duity service in larger numbers than ever ments attracted the attention of between
two ports. She before, from all
purts of the policeman and
arrive here a little later than world. This year, the Fair will Queen's Rand.
sun yesterday afternoon, and be more representative of British They followed the suspects sailed for Canton according to industry than any of its predecea- | through a number of thoroughs schedule yesterday evening. fares and eventually detected them in the act of picking the pocket of a Chinese and extracting
$15.
BOTA,
It appears that visibility on the river was very bad last night. manufactures will occupy 300,000 In London, lighter or smaller. though the mist lifted slightly square feet at Olympia, while the later in the evening.
Cotton Textile Section, which wi
The afficer, continuing his story,
The Tin Tat was proceedinghe open at the White City unit | assigned to each of the grans steadily until she had got to Pratt February 28th, will occupy 90,000 delufte Junction. One man would Rocks when she got aground. square feet and the Exhibition of proceed ahead. "spotting" likely The place at which she is still British Artificial Silk Goods Victims. He would then inform the aground is said to he almost the Royal Albert Hall, which will other two, one of whom would site Chuen Te Fort, which is he open up to February 21st. wilt then nick the aastapecting
little distance away from Sam-occupy 20,000 square feet. victim's pockets and pass his pick-panehan, about midway between The Birmingham Section for
Hongkong and Canton,
will verapy
tags on to the other.
It was immediately up the completion of these series of acts that the police officers revealed themselves and arrested the three
members of the gang. The money
heavy industries.
The ss. Langshan, which left 200,000 square feet, and there will Hongkong about the same time as the more manufacturers represent- the Tin Yat, found the latter fet than on any previous occasion. vessel sending out distress signals, The combined area of the Lon-; was recovered on one of the pri.ful, learning of her plight, don and Birmingham shows a 30%
It was the Lame increase on last year. oner stool by shan whet sem a messingi for
Manufacturers
devoting Homekong informing the local
special attention to new products, authorities o1 the Tia YAU's
which in many sections are excep- wishap and she was apparentlytically interesting. British Wires [still standing by early this morn- fENN.
Musers.
t1
24 hours A remand granted by the Magistrate.
THE SINO-SOVIET. PROBLEM.
SIEM
HOPES OF REACHING AN
AGREEMENT.
Nanking, Feb. 12. General Moh Teh-hul. chief Manchurian delegate attending the Sino-Russian conference sit. Museow, met several Nationalist officials at the residence of Mr. Sun Fo. Minister of Railways, Just a lengthy dis- evening and had Pussion on Sino-Russian issuses.
Nationalist lenders regard these prebitoinary meetings its satis- factory and it is expected that a unanimous decision will bu reached at the final session at the coming Contral Political Council meting. General Moh will
Ing.
It is not known forally whether He Tin Yat's condition is serious. No word has been received from the ship itself and even the local agents were
of AWATA
the mishap until informed by th authorities this morning.
It is understood that H.M.S., Seamer has been despatched to the scene and will stand by on arrival,
POPE BROADCASTS FROM VATICAN.
MARCONE PARTICIPATES IN CEREMONIES.
י1*[ 1!
FACTORIES FOR IDLE CHINESE.
SUGGESTED BIG LOAN FOR UNEMPLOYED.
Nanking, Feb. 12.
A gigantle scheme necessitating the issing of a Government loan of $50,000,000 to render assistance to the thousands of unemployed Chinese labourers in different parts of the country, where.famine and civil war have chased unpre- cedented havor, has been drawn up by the Ministry of Industry under Mr. H. H. Kung.
The plan suggests the forma- Vatican City, Feb, 12.
tion of a series of textile, cotton * leaving Nanking next week, re-
Heralded by a fanfare of trum-and sugar refining factories in turning to Harbin and Mukilen, pets, His Holiness the Pope broad-Chinn as a means of developing after which he expects to return to cast throughout the world for the native industries and simultane- Mosrov to continue the confirst time when he spoke. for ously solving the unemployment
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MAJESTIC
THEATRE
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MAURICE CHEVALIER
a
GETDEMOLENT
Future
To-day
To-morrow
FENIANIVAL NESKAL COMEDY STAR
Innocents of parts
· IN SUBMARINE TO THE piration of the expedition, pani
POLE.
WILKIN'S TESTS UNDER ICE.
ference with the Soviet delegates twelve minutes in Latin from the Party in March.
newly-installed Vatienn wireless
Mr. Engene Chen, ex-Nationalisi | station, Minister at Canton, has arrange-1
1
problem.
The factories will. It is sug-
Igested, be under the glirvet control. Uis Boliness concluded Dis a meeting with Mr. Sun Fo address
of the Ministry of ledustry which with
Apostolic will assign an annual expenditure Shanghai on Saturday, and the two Benediction. will leave for Nanking together
for $10,000,000 for upkeep, Profits; After the broadcast. some time next week,
another will go to the Nanking Treasury. ceremony touk place at the Mr. Kung suggests a loan of
The Nanking Central Political Council has resolved that the con-
stretlour of two ironsen harhopes
Pontifical Science Academy where 350,000,000 in cover expenses for Signor Marconi, after his election the purchase of machinery from
in Manchuria nas Chilli, as out- with the Pope's assent, thanked abroad in connexion with Hined by General Chang Hauchis Holiness for establishing the opening of these factories. Hang, shall be entrusted to the station. Reuter. Ministries of Haliway and Com- munications in Nankink.
We are informed that, commenc- |ing on Monday next, the Vatican Station (VRS) will broadcast daily from 14.50 to 15.00 on 19.84 metres and from 15.30 to 16.00 on
MORE INDO-CHINA 50.26 metres. Times are GMT.
REBELLION.
SEVERAL INSURGENTS
KILLED.
Hanoi, Feb. 2 Os the night of Jan, 90-31, a tin- live military patrol, in the Binh- Fan etonment, Quang-Ngai Pro- vinee, came into contnet with a forer of several hundred relieds and opened Bre.
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BRITISH POLICY IN PALESTINE.
MISUNDERSTANDING TO BE
* CLEARED UP,
AUSTRALIAN BANK DIVIDENDS.
AMUSEMENTS
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PAYMENTS TO BE MADE IN AUSTRALIAN POUNDS.
London, Feb, 12. The National Bank of AUR-4 tralasia in London has been inform- ed from the bank's headquarters at Melbourne that the Board of Direc tors has decided to pay all dividends on the bank's shares in Australian
Hunds,
London, Feb. 12.
They will be made available at Replying in the House of Com- Melbourne and will be transferred mony to question regarding the overseas at the request of share- Eight were killeil, two wounded letter on British policy ixt and the arrest effected of a num Palestine. which the Governmentlers and at their expense as re- ber of other rebels. The military will address in the next few days
gards exchange. ensualities are nat disclosed--to Dr. Weissmann, the Prime London that the Directors of the Advice has also been received in dupariti.
Minister said that in the body of Bank of New South Wales have de Hanoi, Feb. 3. the letter it would be made clear clared an interim quarterly dividend The Foreign Legion military posts that the document was to be read of nine shiling per share Austra have been increased in the 'nifeet-as an authoritative interpretation lian currency---Reuter, ed, area.
of last year's White Paper on Last night, a military patrol nutters with which it dealt. penetrated the village of Kyiho, in The lotter would also be con the affected aren, and broke up amunicated
to the League of conference by revolutionists which Nations and embodied. in was in progress: firing on the gas despatch as an instruction to the thering and killing 13, as well as British High Commissioner h A wounding seven.--Indaparific,
PROBATE GRANTED:
Commander, Sloan Danenkaiver, enptain of the submarine, has in- vited Jules Jean
Verne,
the novelist's grandson, to
come to Philadephia for the christenine 1:
The Nautilus, the submarine. In which Sir Hubert Wilkins, with not the Nautilus.
BIG ESTATE LEFT BY LATE MR. A., O. EWING.
late Mr. Archibald Orr
traw of 18, will attempt to reach Before starting for London the The the North Pole by sailing beneath submarine will make tests under Ewing, formerly of the China the lee, is fast nearing completion, the ice of Mahno and Nova Scotia, | Inland Mission, who died nt and will start for Spitzbergen, by Commander Danenhower stales Roselands, West End. Southamp way of London and Trumsoe, Nor- that he is anxious to discover if ton, Hants, England on May 11, way, next April.
the earth is as egg-shaped at the 1930, left Hongkong estate to the This romantic craft is named North Pole as is generally sup- | value of $58,100, while net in honour of the submersible in posed, and the expedition will take | personalty elsewhere amounts to Jules Verno's "Twenty Thousand regular soundings to determine £53,978 98. 7d. Longues Under the Son," the ins the exact curvature of the Poin. Re-sealing of cortified copy of
Printed and Published for the Proprietora by FREDERICK PENCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3. Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria Hongkong.
probate of the will and three odicils have been granted to Mr. | Davty James Gilmore, bunker, who la attorney for the executors. The will contains family bequests.
LONG FLIGHT.
London, Feb. 12. Palestine. The Premier said the The thred Royal Air Force letter involved “po,, changé ↑ of Vickers Victoria troop curriers on policy, but removed a great deal of their light from Cairo to Cape- misunderstanding which had town, and hack, which left Capez |securred.—British Wireless,
town on Wednesday mornings bave reached' Kimberley-Britiak Wireless,
TROUBLE BREAKS OUT IN SPAIN.
ĠENERAL STRIKE DECLARED
·AT CADIZ.
Madrid, Feb. 12. A general strike is proceeding at Cadiz, all transport being stopped. Strikers to-day paraded "the streets and stoned shops, police, charged several times.
A big reinforcement of police hus been sent to the Router.
The
scene.-
HOME CENSUS DATE.
London, Feb, 12. A Privy Council meeting at Buckingham Palace to-day decided that the Census be taken on Sun- day, April 26th-ritish Wireless.
The Empress of Australia, on her round-the-world crulae, is due here from Manila at 6.30 am. to-morrow and will borth at Pler. No. 5, Kowloon -Whart,
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- Mary Lawlor
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