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XING WAUNZÄNKE SATURDAY, ' FEBRUARY
46 18 ANNUM
28, 1931. HEME AIXHILE Cork In CENTR
SIX MONTHS GREAT TELEGRAPH MR. S. M. EDWARDS' END OF A FAMOUS SPLIT OVER “DRY”
`LINE CLOSING.
SENTENCE
FOR AL CAPONE!] 6,000 MILES ACROSS EUROPE
OFFENDED BY THE DECISION.
AND PERSIA.
ROMANTIC HISTORY.
London, Feb, 27. The great telegrapn ne known
CALMED BY LEAVE TO | as "The Indo-Route", closes down
APPEAL.
MIX
The line ran to-morrow..
miles thousand
frum
i.slot through Germany. Poland, Russia and Persia to the head of the
SHOCK OF HIS LIFE. Persian Gulf and thenge, by anti-
Chicago, Feb. 27. "Scarface" Al Capone, the King of the Chicago Under- world, the most notorious gang-leader in America, re- ceived the shock of his life to-day. Ho was convicted on a charge of contempt of court, arising out of the non- payment of facome tax, and appeared mildly amused at the decision. Then came the bombshell. Sentence of six months' imprisonment was passed.
Capone (pronounced to rhyme with "throne") might well have been startled. He has been ar rested on numerous occasions in Chicago. He has voluntarily presented himself at the Chief Constable's Office. But Chicago before decided to has never
for
CLAIM
AGAINST S.M.C.
FIRST HEARING ON FRIDAY NEXT.
COMPENSATION OF 50,000 TAELS SOUGHT.
ECONOMY ISSUE.
marino cable, to India,
(Our Own Correspondent.) On Sunday, the land Unes be-
the come
possession 01 tho
Shanghai, Feb. 28. rountries
which they through
It is learned to-day that the pa, na the sea cable n h British Imperial and international first hearing of the somewhat
against casc
the
Comitations Company.
sensational
Council
The line was opened sixty-one Shanghai Municipal years ago to ensure an alternative brought by Mr. S. M. Edwards. route to India in the event of an who for many years has acted Interruption 10 the Ensternas Secretary to the Municipality, Telegraph Company's cables, but will open before the Court of beam wireless has made its con- Cousuis on March 6. tinued use unnecessary.
It has been arranged the the The history of the maintenance Court of Consuls, consisting of of the Bue through Persia by the the Consuls-General of Grent Indo-European Telegraph Depart-Britain, the United States and ment of the Train Government is Belgium. to sit in the Council full of tales of exciting adventure Chamber and the proceedings will
commence at 2.30 p.m. and fine examples of devolion to duty by Officers of the department ant by Persian linesmen.
the whole
Counsel Appearing.
Mr. Reader Harris is appearing and on behalf of Mr. Edwards, Messrs, Hansons for the Shanghai Municipal Council.
During the War. telegraphic communications of the Mesopotamia Field Force, both with India and England. passed over the department's cables in The action has attracted widest the Persian Gulf and the enormous attention in Shanghai and sym- trae was dealt without break-pathies generally are with the down or undue delay..
plaintiff
send him to prison.
The only period the notorious gangster has spent in jail followed his conviction at Philadelphia two The Department's Officers are years ago, when he was sent up" leaving the station in Persia with nearly Л yenr to the regrets, which will be shared by Pennsylvania Penitentiary Tur the Persians with whom they have carrying a pistol. Even then it established relations of trust and
nerally believed that the Friends British Wirelers. all sentence was arranged to en- alde Cripone to evade the attentions rival of a particularly tenacious gangster.
Dressed the Parl.
Looking sĺrek and prosperons, as wel he might, Capone attended court to-day attired in his nattiest suiting, with rings Mashing on his Angers, and a lie of most brilliant Inc.
He sat back in his chair stolid chewing gun, probably wonderin how long it would be before ||** "farce" was over.
COUNTY COUNCIL
ELECTIONS.
POLLING TAKING PLACE
NEXT WEEK.
London, Feb. 27.
Mr. Edwards apparently claims 59.000 taels as compensation for the cancellation of his option to renew his contracl, and as com- bensation for deprivation of his post as from Seotember to, the end of next year, the date of the ex- piration of his contract.
There has been ranfessed frie. tion between him and his superiors for same mouths past on the same
score.
Ground For Action.
NEWSPAPER.
"WORLD" MERGED IN THE "TELEGRAPH."
...
QUESTION.
DEMOCRATS DIVIDED ON PROHIBITION.
TWO SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT DISCLOSED.
NEWSBOYS' HARVEST
New York, Feb, 27. Newsboys In New York reaped a rich barvest to-day, selling the last editions of the New York World at fancy prices, up to a dollar | MEETING NEXT WEEK. gold.
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Bulls
RESISTANCE
FORT
DUNLOP
The Tyre of Rugged Strength
LOCAL BRANCH,
Paddar Bldg.
and Inners
From the Uffice Butts.
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wtlB Yes, Shanghai
Immaculately attired. No doubt dressed to kill. 0 0
A local angler says caution is A gunman recently. arrested in
grent asset in fishing. especially if you are a fish..
DO We rend that the trade depress- A thief raided a hen-coop in sion ія even affecting sport. Kowloon City the other day. Come to think of it, we've noticed Poached eggal that some boxers are hard hit.
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This will be A render says he's noticed that Washington, Feb. 23,
more than ever demonstrated if Penkites coming down to office in- Observers to-day foresee the they don't finish within the first the mornings often look rather
a sharp discord three.
dazed. That's natural; they're possibility of
sometimes befogged for hours at developing at the meeting of the
Another National Commit-
of Bernard Shaw's at stretch. Democratic
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Two schools of thought.
have
In contradistinction to their gratilleation, there were many and eyes inside the office of the famous Journal as the paper went to press for the time, marking the end of the long and gallant fight of iheavy odds, to maintain the paper tion of the Democratic stand on the three brothers Pulitzer against tee on March 6 over the ques-plays la being filmed. If this sort
of thing goes, on, we shall soon Snake skin will predominate he enlling them the "Shawkica," women's shoe styles this year, built up by their father.
prohibition.
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says a fashion note. Will it take The sale of the journals to the
A motoring writer says the one- lots of charm wear them? Serippe-Howard ayndiente, was evolved in the party, one demand-way method has largely solved the
op contened this morning.
ing a positive déclaration on pro-traffic problem at Home. There
China's "Boy Hsuan . Tung, The morning, evening and sun-hibition, and the other regarding are no two ways about that. Emperor," наук he wante to day editions of the World will in this matter, an in the past, us not
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become a tennis atar. He hasn't future be merged in the New York It subject for political machina. MacWhirter Bays that people shone in court so far. Telegram under the composite title, tions.
who drink to forget, never forgot
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when to drink.
We notice that a local adver- tiser needs "Lessons in kulfo This decline in the picce-goods throwing." This is believed to trade is making Lancashire less be one of the anti-stabilisation shirty.
correspondents!
The first number of the evening edition of the new World-Teleprom appeared this afternoon-Renter's American Servier,
FIVE EUROPEANS KILLED IN FIJI.
GOVERNOR'S REPORT OF
CALAMITY.
Decision Wanted,
Jewelt Shouse, chairman of the excutive committee, and John R. Raskab, chairman of the national committee, desire the party to go defnitely on record.
One
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thing
I recent public remarks Shouse we've noticed is declared that a majority of De-that there are morerala were in favour of altera- fewer soft jobs tions in prohibition, And that in hard times. national paychology has reached ᄆᄆ
n paint where the first party to Maybe those take a Arm and positive stand on boys who threw the issue will be able to make capiogge at Rady tal out of it.
Vallee in
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London Feb. 27.
laskob's attitude on prohibition Boston thentre Sir Murchison't Fetcher, the Governor of Fill, an ormerly an is a matter of long knowledge regarded him officiul in Honkong a telegram He was, ap before the senate lobby to the Sertary for Colonies, investigating committee for celticas a ham. reports that a Koering struck jam beenuse he contributed to the
We hear of a Vitllevu at the week-end, with ex- funds of the Association Aguinit
housewife who's the Eighteenth Amendment. tromely heavy rain.
afall to brder floods Record
occurred in
A Moral Issue.
the sweep now several districts. The loss of life
50 muny is reported to exceed one hundred,
Senator Walter F. George of that
them mainly Indians, but including five | Georgia is the most forward ex-of
urc Europeans. Extensive
He regarded as damage ponent of the other schonl. has been done to property and has frequently declared that the illegal.
question of prohibition is strictly a non-political one, but is rather a moral issue, and no party should ever go on record thereon.
The grind for his action betrops. fore the Courts is as follows:-
Nadarivati reports, thirty-four On August 22 the Salaries Com-inches of rain in seven days. Re- mission report, which was includ- lief work is in progress.-Brition In the first few days of March, ed with the current issue of the Wireless. County Connell elections will Municipal Gazette, recommended held all over the country, and the that, with a view to the improve- compaigns are now in progress,
On Thursday next, elections willment of the relations between the
Director General's office When the judgment was give he held to the London County Spretnefnt. It was advisable that he looked interested, but when the Council, which governs the administhe Director General announcement of sentence was de- strative County of London, with an enceforth described as the "Chief livered, he stiffened.
area of 117 square miles and bud-Commissioner and Secretary." the gets for over £30.000.000 per latter title being appended to com- annum. Sixty-one divisions will ply with Land Regulation require- return 124 members. Two hun
is chewing eensed.
"Big Boy" was angry.
Ball Granted.
ments,
and the
should be
Is carried out will bo im.
dred and seventy-nine candidates The report went on to say: "H have been nominated, of whom this arrangement twelve have been returned unoppos- the organisation
proved." The candidates include 197 Lab- 106 Municipal Reformers, 27 Liberals and 14 Communists.- British Wirclers.
Capone's counsel did his best to assuage the wrath of his client.
ed. Eventually, bail was granted in the Aum of $5,000, and thirly days has been allowed for Capone to pre pare an appeal against the sentence. -Retter's American Service,
There is reason to belleve that things have been made most un- Chicago pleasant for Capone in lately. Quite recently a picked squal of Chicago's detectives, un touched by underworld corruption, descended on the Rex Hotel,
our,
CAMPBELL CASE JUDGMENT.
FRENCH FLIGHT TO TOKYO.
CURIOSITY OF THE ROUTE SUGGESTED.
An attempt to herd the Demo- eratie party over on the wet side of the issue will constitue a dif ficult task for the northern wets, in view of the proverbial dryness of the South.
However, wets say the South is dry as a matter of the practicality of keeping liquór away from the Negro, and not on moral grounds. They hope that the South, there- fore, will be willing to subscribe to a state's right theory.
Might Steal Plank.
Paris, Feb. 27. Two French airmen. M. Moench and M. Bertin, plan to take oft at one o'clock in the morning from Le Bourget aerodrome, to dy to India, if the Democratic party would Mr. Fessenden's Post. Manchuria and Shanghai-Reuter. promptly take such a stand they [There appears to be something could steal this plank from the Mr. Stirling Fessenden's xp wrong with the route suggestel. If the Republicinns, whe now have prior pointment as Director General ex- airmen are taking the southern route rights to it, without actually pires on April 17 next year, and vin India, a direct flight to Man- claiming it, through the he will then be recommended to shurta would entail the crossing of findinga
the of
Wickersham the Himalayas and the Tibetan the ratepayers as "Commissioner
law enforcement. commission General and Secretary," Mr. Ed- plateau. If the airmen do not con-
direct and the declarations of Dwight W. template nuch. a dangerous ward's services being no longer night, they would have, more or less, Merrow, New Jersey's new senator to pass Shanghai on the waty to who is hovering near the edge of Mr. Fessenden's salary is 30,000 || Manchuria.]
the limelight which is beginning to search out presidential pos- sibilities.
necessary,
Capone's business headquarters. HUSBAND ORDERED TO PAYtals and Mr. Elwards 18,000
and in the course of their surprise raid collected, it is reported, data connecting with his activities per- sons so prominent that the raiders!
mention admitted "we dare not names, as least, not yet."
The lists of bribe-takers extended| into all walks of life even into Congress.
Capone's Confidence.
EIRO AND COSTS.
(Our Own Correspondent.)
taelu, so it is commonly believed by local ratepayers that the econo- my achieved by the change will be neulvible, panecinity as Mr. Fes- sendena allowance very probably will be ingreased.
There is loent dissatisfaction
Shanghai, Feb. 28. Pointing out that both parties had failed to observe the terrps of with the official attitude, the ex- the maintenance atreement enter-trene opinion being that the ab- ed into in March last year, Judge feet of the Salaries Commission,
EXTRALITY ISSUE DISCUSSIONS.
BRITISH & U. 8. MINISTERS IN NANKING.
Nanking, Feb. 27. Sir Miles Lampson, the British
Further Reports.
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Young Wife: learned to cook while my nueband was › abroad
Mother: Well, and what did
he say when he returned?
Young Wife:
Не
went
abroad again. 口口
If we cannot hold a flower show, Nar our cauliflowers display, Why not have a light and power
show.
To chase the gloom away?·
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People who Kve in gloss hourca should keep their shirts
on,
"Easy comb, enяy go," as the fellow said with
fost
dis-
tho appearing hair.
☐ ☐ Instead of ringing a ball,
a new alarm ·
lock playa?
a gramophone
record. The
Inzy, expect the record to play Home aimple
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A naxaphone band plays salec- tions to the inmates of an Ameri- can Gaol once a week. Well, they shouldn't have become convicts.
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Butter is said to be selling for $15 a pound in Moscow. And who (maskee will say the Russians deserve a
pat on the back?
Or parade our bathing beauties, As they do in U.S.A.? beer Or
show duties)? Where there's awill there is n
BWAY!
We might parade our taipans, In a representing range, In place of mirrors, frypane, The reflection would be strange. Or a show of bouncing babies, Who've been dropped upon the
Peak,
The little future may-bes, By the way their parents speak. Or a show of Servants Civil, Just to prove they are alive; Or of those who write this
drivel,
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One of our neighbours has yet to break the non-stop record.
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"Bill to Ban Soviet Convict Goods," says a headline. Presum ably it is expected that Tom, Dick and Harry will do the same.
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The Currency Mission to Hong- kong in brief:
Submission, intermission, admis sion, permission, commission.
And at pacudo humour strive. A writer thinks the risks run by Or a show of pot-luck dinners, motor-boat racers are too great. With the soup well watered Kay Don't.
down;
or of next week's lucky winners,
Or of those who don't, and
frown.
And if these lowly topics,
Of no importance rank,
Let's challenge all the tropics,
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Russia, we read, is tu export twelve million electric light bulbs. How re-volting!
A manufacturer of shoe polish Anda shining To a show of blooming swanki left £278,000.
exemplo. Answering renewed requests from the senate for
These are the days when it -further evidence upon which it drew up its behooves a man with an iron con- report, the Wickersham law en- stitution to prove his mettle. forcement commission to-day ex.
The must appear in court on a charge yesterday, gaye judgment, for $180 ble of achievement by such men ning and. Intends to stay for ten covering 16 of the states wore
When Capons was informed that G. W. King, in the British Court, which was economy, is not poss Minister, arrived here this mor
of contempt for failing two years and court costs against Percy ago to present himself for ques Campbell, in favour of Georgina tioning concerning soine unreported Campbell.
Items in his income. Eu consented, it Plaintiff claimed £223,
fs. nuggested, in the belief that
there was no judge in Chiengo likely
to register a conviction, much Jerw
ROYAL DUTCH CALLS
send Him to prison,`ns they did one!
of colleaguen a month or two ago.
IN DEBENTURES. -
TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE MONEY MARKET.
The Hague, Feb. 27.
UFCH
TRADE DISPUTES BILL AMENDMENT.
Peking.
days or so before returning to The British Minister will confer with the Chinese Foreign Minister, Mr. C. T. Wang, on the extrality Issue and will take the opportunity of exchanging, opinions with the TOTALLY' UNACCEPTABLE TO U.S. Minister, who arrived yester
T.U.C
day...
PRESIDENTS VETO OVERRIDDEN.
☐ ☐ "Soviet Oll Ships Off Woosung" reads a newspaper headline. Pro- bably bringing turm-oll!
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pressed intention of sending ad- Sculpturing is being taken_up
But The woek's almilo:--As likely as ditional material as soon as it can at á Wisconsin reformatory.. be located.
won't it be hard to get model the Labour Government resigning
on its own initiative. The agnata observed that reports prisoners? missing from the first batch of lightly if they'd weigh their words in order to protest in the Commons Stabilisatora, wouldn't speak so A Labour M. P. left his sick-bed- documents,. papers and records,
against the proposed cuts in Civi carefully. submitted.
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Service pay. We understand that Judge Kenneth R. Mackintosh, former chief Justice of the supre-From now on we can look for to present him with a new bod!.
Another infamous saying Hongkong Civil Servants are going me court of the state of Washing things to get better."
00: ton and member of the commission;
You can talk of gin and beer, When you're domiciled out here: Providing there's a decent sort
of dollar.
said that the commission had re-
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And another-Inever wear ports from only 44 of the 48 states, my diamonds-they're too com. and that therefore only 12 .such
spicuoua." roports, were missing.
He wild he believed the missing
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Financial Note: Dividenda. reports were in the possession of will be payable at Happy Valley individual members.
next week.
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But when it comes to drinking, You do a bit of thinking:
And where you used to "shout**
-you only foller!..
́"A Self-Mndo Man."
London, Feb. 27. His story Is told in "The
The General Council of the Utography of a Self-made Man"
Trades Union Congress have writ ton published some little time back, the
to Mr. Ramsay MacDonald title being eltosen to relieve the
atating that the effect of the Li Creator from an unpleasant rex- Although over twenty million beral amendment to the First nonsibility. Th author comes to florins' worth of five per cant. de Clause of the Trade Disputes and the conclusion that it is the corrupt bentures were only issued twelve Trade Unions Bill in to place the spirit of Chicago which is reaponal months ago for a period of fifty Trade Union movement in a worse ble for the rise to vast wealth and years, the Board of Directors of the position than at any time since American midway metropolis is the to exercise its right to redeem on Bill, as thus amended, is most lawless, and corrupt of the two months' notice at 102%1⁄2, per
Union movement.” Transatlantic cities, in an incom cent New York in the day of that of The Royal Dutch Company there-ils latter ended the Govern therefore, becomes law in spite of dye, the defendant told the Court that Girls who put their money in away 101 Baubt.
U. 8. SOLDIERS BONUS
"Money Moving Again," says There is no truth' fa the rumour. BILL BECOMES LAW.
Convicted of the theft of $5,200 newspaper heading. Ours has that the A.D.C. intend changing worth of jewellery from a sing-song | never done anything else.
the title of their forthcoming pro girl at West Point, by whom she was
duction to "Mra. Warren's Pro Washington, Feb. 27. The Senate, like the House of previously employed, a Shanghai wo-
Auntie Cyclone isn't certain fession." Representatives, have overridden man was sentenced to four months
racing tip.
To-day's Lucky Num Central Magistracy yesterday, bacon or just Service which, |plaining cause of an injury her
the winning
the disapproval of the Administra- the slipped-off a chair and fell on the clothes-collect interest from the and if you hold the Hek
Πόστα Mon-Reuter's American Service.
influence of her leading gungsters. Royal Dutch Company has decided unacceptable to the Trade President Hoover'e' voto of the hard labour by Mr. W. Schofield at the whather backgammon is a joint of
parably than
Continued on Page 14.)
low rates of Interest-Reuter,
renders
more than evor certain.---Reuter,