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April 5, 1928, Temperature 70.

Barometer 29:

No. 18.842.

四拜禮 號五月四年三十二百九千一英

Rainfall 0.00 inch,

Humidity 95.

April 5,

expressture 74.

日十二月二亥癸大年!

HONGKÔNG, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1928.

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INTERNATIONAL STATUS PROBLEM,

LONDON, April.4.

SARCASTIC PRESS COMMENTS.

WARSAW, April 4,

It transpires that Bishop Budkiewicz was ex- ecuted at four o'clock on Friday morning. The news was delayed, the Soviets suspending telegraphic communication for four days. The sentence was carried out in the cellar of a Cheka building. The priest was placed with his back to the executioner who fired a revolver at the back of his head.

Though peacemaking is apparently not progres sing in Ireland, (the captures of irregulars are pro- ceeding steadily. Reports of the arrest of a dozen or more Irregulars are received in Dublin almost daily. It is noteworthy that they are including women who aut as couriers. This is strengthening the Govern The Soviet newspapers sarcastically comment

ment's confidence, that peace will eventually ben

on foreign interventions. The Isvestia furiously effected by the absence of fighting and the suppress attacks "perfidious England, murderer of a hundred ion of the Republican organisation. A sumber thousand Irishmen." The Pravda exhorts Italian of promiment Irregulars surrendered at Kerry where Communists to sentence the Pope to death by the Farmers' Union carried a resolution requesting default pending the establishment of a revolutionary the Government to cease executions as the country was becoming normal.

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Emigration to America continues unceasingly. Hundreds of young men and girls from Kerry sailed during the past few days." It is estimated that there are ten thousand Irregulars and their sympathisers in Government jails. With the abatement of viol- ence throughout the country, new problems occupying the public mind, including Ireland's in- ternational position. News from Geneva that the Economic Cominission of the League of Nations has requested the Council of the League to invite the Free State to participate in the League's internation- al customs conference in October is the first inter national recognition of Ireland: since the Treaty was signed. The customs barrier between the Free State and North Ireland which became operative on April 1, is working smoothly.

LORD - CARNARVON'S..

TOMB INSECT'S FATAL BITE.

CAIRO, April 4

Lord Carnarvon died peacefully at two in the morning. He was conscious almost to the end

tribunal.

FRANCE'S. RUHR AIMS.

SIGNOR NITTTS CHARGE.

NOT PEACE BUT SLAVERY.

LONDON, April 4- The Italian ex-Premier, Signor Nitti, in an, article in the Pall Mall Gazette, asserts that the French Government, at the dictates of the French › iron magnates, is craving to dominate Continental Europe. The motive of the occupation of the Ruhris not reparations but to bring the German industrial magnates to France's feet and ready to accept contól: by French industry. "This cannot be called peace; it is slavery of free peoples to foreign capitalism. It is not suprising that the French are confronted with a barrier not merely of suffering, but chiefly of -hatred."

RUHR OCCUPATION.

FURTHER FRENCH EXTENSION.

BERLIN, April 4.

The French have extended their occupation to outskirts of Hagon.

BRITISH ZONE AGREEMENT.

⠀AT. PARIS, April 4.

Lord Carnarvon, who had become famous as the finder of Tutankhamen's treasure tomb, was announced a week ago to be in a critical condition owing to bloodpoisoning from an insect bite. His end could not have been entirely expected as a the cable received earlier this morning reported that he had had a fair night and that his condition, though still grave, was more hopeful.

A message from Duesseldorf says that the first [The deceased, whose full name was George French military train to the Ruhr passed the British Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert was the son Zone yesterday in pursuance of the Godley Payot of the fourth Earl and was 57. Educated at Eton and agreement afterwards at Cambridge, he owned about 36,000 acres. His heir is Lord Porchester who is a Lieutenant in the 7th Hussars.]

LORD NORTHCLIFFE'S WIDÓW.

MARRIES SIR ROBERT HUDSON.

LONDON, April 4.

FRENCH SOLDIERS HELD UP.

BERLIN, April 4.

The newspapers state that an advance guard of four soldiers in a motor lorry was held up at: Hagen by an excited crowd, The French used the butt ends of their rifles, and eventually, had to be pro- tected by the police.

THE AFFAIR AT KRUPPS

BERLIN, Aţiril 4- -

A German note to France denies provocation by Kropps' workmen and demands full stisfaction Lady Northcliffe married Sir Robert Hudson at for the victims, and the release of the arrested men. Hartlebury.

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Lady Northcliffe's wedding was solemnised by special licence in the chapel of Hartlebury Castle. The Bishop of Worcester officiated and Sir Charles Russell gave away the bride..

OBITUARY,

WH LLOYD

LONDON, April

The death has occurred of Dr. W. H Lloyd Dr. William Harris Lloyd was 37 and had been hon, surgeon to the King since 1961. He serv China from 1880 to 1910 and was Inspector General of Hospitals and Fleets in 1890. He retired in 1896.

ACCIDENT. TO HMS. «CERES.

AGE:

"RUNNING RAILWAY `GAUNTLET.

BERLIN, April 4.

An official explanation does not attribute the railway accident at Pippe to sabotag) but to the Germans sending out eight trainloads of metal pro- ducts. The French confiscated part of one trudg and, the whole of another. Presumibly, the 25% mainder got through

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