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th Apr. TYNDAREUS 2nd May
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FROM GAMBLER.
MAJESTIC HOTEL.
SIR ROBERT HO TUNG POSSIBLE BUYER.
1931,
[JAVA TRADE `MISSION.
TO SPEND SIX MONTHS STUDYING CONDITIONS.
Shanghai, Apr. 1. With the purpose of furthering the Chinese export trade to Java, a com- Au allegation of misconduct by
Sir Robert Ho Tung' and six mercial mission,of eighteen prominent demanding $3, from the master of others have formed n syndicate Java Chitono merchants, including a gambling house was brought against a Shantung constable who for the purchase of the Majostic many officials of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce there, under the chair- appeared before Mr. Schofield at Hotel for T3,500,000, should the manship of Mr. Chang Ming, the Chi- the Central Police Court yesterday Municipal Council decline the nese Consul-General, arrived in Hong- option, which expires on April 16. kong on Tuesday on the s.. Tinegara. afternoon.
The Mission represents practically all The main object, it is said, is to important industries and business preserve the famous ballroom arms in Java.
Dotective Inspector Shannon was for the police while Mr. F.
ant..
C. E. Rendall held n watching from demolition in order to retain] On their arrival here the visitors brief en behalf of the complain it as an international meeting wero welcomed on board the .. Tjine. place, for which purpose in the Kara by officials of the Hongkong Chi According to Detective Inspecpast it has been extremely popular nese General Chamber of Commerco.
The mission is organized with the tor Shannon it was alleged against with Chinese society-Reuter.
object of cementing commercial ro the defendant that on March 19
There has recently been great intions between China and Java and ut about noon he was one of a
the effect that Chinese in Java believo party of four Shantung men who public agitation in Shanghai for pokeamen have made a statement to antered the ground flour of 166. the preservation of the Majestic that with the unification and restore- Hollywood Rond, in which was Hotel for the public, in particular tion of peace in China a big opportuni- run the popular gambling game the ball-room which has been very ty is offered to the native manufactur- known as Ste mel, or the missing popular since the Hongkong anders in the interior of China to increase word competition. The defendant Shanghal Hotel company built it their exports to Javn. The Mission was alleged to have demanded 30 in 1924. The present owners of from the master, Au Sun-hol, but fered the building to the Mani- he was put off without receiving cipal Council for T8,500,000.] any payment.
The following day the defen- dant was alleged to havo gone
will spend a few days in Hongkong, visiting Canton, Swalow, Amoy and Foochow, and returning to the Colony again some time towards the end of this month.
The mission intends to spend six months in China and will visit Nan-
with another Shantung man and JAPANESE NAVY LIST. King, Shanghai, liangchow, Wuchang
repeated the demand. At four o'clock another visit was
made.
Wha
On each occasion he asked for $5. but each time the maler away. At B.30 p.m. the defen- dant and another Shantung pollee- man, both in full uniform, made ret another visit to the premises. The defendant entered the shop $5, at the same and asked for time using a raincoat, which he had been carrying on his shoulder, who to drive away the people were buying counters on the game being played on the premises.
The defendant was then seen to who speak to a Cantonese man went to the master of the shop and naked him for $5. The mas
MODERN CRAFT TO BE LAUNCHED.
ilankow, Peking, Mukden, Tsingtao and Tsinanfu. At Nanking the mer- chants hope to interview some of the lending politicians.
The mission was entertained by Mr. Ko Leong-hoe, managing director of the Ho Hong Bank Ltd., on Tuesday, at tlin in the South China Restau- rant.
VISIT THE PHILIPPINES via "PRESIDENT"
Liners.
An excellent opportunity is afforded by the PHILIPPINES TOURIST ASSOCIATION To tour the romantic Southern Islands and visit
CEBU-ILOILO AND ZAMBOANGA
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DOLLAR
Tokyo, Apr. 1. The valuable assistance ren dered by Japanese destroyers on patrol
In the and convoy work Mediterranean during the world! war is recalled by the announce torpedoed with the loss ment that eight destroyers which commander and 60 of the crew.
To-morrow the now aircraft were built in 1915 and sent le Malta under the command of Rear carrier Ryujo, of 7,600 tons will Admiral Sato in April 1917, were be launched at Yokohama in the removed to-day from the Navy Presence of Prince Fushimi, who will represent the Emperor, while List.
on April 6, the Chokaf, the last of They include the Sakaki, which Japan's 10,000 ton cruisers will be ter offered $1, but, after speaking was repaired after having been launched.—Beuter,
to the defendant, the Cantonese
returned to say that the defen- dant would accept $3. This sum was accordingly handed to the Cantonese, who took it to the door where the defendant was stand- Ing.
WAS seen to The defendant reach out his hand for the money. although it was not actually pass ed. Immediately afterwards
the his defendant put his hand in pocket as if he had received the money. The defendant left and Cantonese, was followed by the
the game in the shop then con- tinuing.
At 9 p.m. that evening the com plainant went to the Contral Police Station and made a report of the incident.
Defendant was found guilty and sentenced to six weeks' hard Jabour.
DESERT CONQUERED.
FIRST MAN TO CROSS IT GETS AWARD,
Loudon, Apr. 1. What explorers have hailed as the first greatest step towards the final elucidation of the riddle of the sands," that of crossing the Rc-. balkhali great sandy desert in South Arabin, has carved Mr. Bertram Thomas, who performed the feat last spring, the Founders' Medal of the Royal Geographical Society,
Mr. Thomas covered the 900 miles in 68 days and was the first non-Moslem and probably first man, to cross the hitherto unexplored tract. He is not yet forty and is Prime Minister to Sultan Oman Renter.
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