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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1924,

BRITAIN AND EGYPT.

PRECAUTIONS TAKEN IN SUDAN.

"MOVEMENT OF WAR-VESSELS.

(Reuter's Service.)

LONDON, November 24. At present there are about two battalions of British troops in the Sudan, in addition to the Sudanese troops, which "now form the Sudanese defence force.

There is roughly a division of British troops in Egypt, where the Egyptian forces number about 7,000.

The situation is now in the hands of Field-Marshal Lord Allenby. Martial law prevails in the Sudan.

Sailing Orders. H.M.S. Iron Duke" and HM.S. "Malaya" have bean ordered from Malta to Alexandria and Port Said respectively. The fight cruiser, H.M.S. "Caradoc," now in Greek waters, and two destroyers from Port Sald, have been ordered to proceed to Suez. H.MS. battleship Bento, which was expected at Malta from Alexandria on December 3, has been ordered to remain at Alex- andria.

Customs Occupied. ALEXANDRIA, November 24. The occupation of the Customs House and premises was effected by 100 marines without incident. The ordinary routine bustness has not been affected.

New Egyptian Cabinet.

CAIRO, November 14. The list of Ministers has been completed and is of a distinctly moderate complexion. The names

are:

CRISIS IN EGYPT.

CUSTOMS AT ALEXANDRIA TO BE SEIZED.

(Reuter's Service.)

LONDON, November 24, The firm stand adopted by the Government with reference, to Egypt meets practically the unanimous approval of Britain and opinion is expressed

Premier and Minister of Interior, Ziwar Pasha.

Foreigh Affairs, Ahmed Zulficar, Minister of Justice, Zaki Abou

Said.

Pious Foundations, Sidky. Minister of War, Sadek Yebia. Attitude Of Franca.

PIRATE EVIL.

BRITISH FLAG FLOUTED.

Cement Tug Seized.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

Pakkai, Kongmoon, Nov. 24. Although she flew the British Aag, the tug "Kin Lea" has been pirated near Siu Lam, a flourish ing town in the river delta at the boundary between the Heungshan and Shuntak districts.

PARIS, Novamber 24.

She was carrying a cargo of The Foreign Office Intitiates | that, in view of the Anglo-French cement at the time. Two of the Treaty of 1904 respecting Marocco crew were forcibly taken away for and Egypt, France will maintain ransom. strlet neutrality in any Anglo- Egyptian conflict.

French diplomatic circles hope it will be possible to submit the Anglo-Egyptian dlaputo to arbitration by the League of Nations.

Although Egypt is not a mem- ber of the League, the same procedure might advantageously be followed as adopted in the

Viina dispute.

British Opinion.

LONDON, November 24,

With reference to suggestions

to submit the Anglo Fgyptian issue to the League of Nations, British officials point out that by the exist ing diplomatic understanding, all matters lytig within the province of four reserved points-namely the Sudan, protection of Suez Canal, foreign. interests and defence of Egypt--are matters of domestic policy within the British Empire; therefore, they are outside the competence of the League of Nations.

MOROCCO.

SPANISH WITHDRAWAL IS CAUSE OF ANXIETY.

HEAVY LOSSES REPORTED.

!

(Reuter's Service.)

PARIS, November 24.

A telegram from Tangier states;

that both In substance and that the withdrawal of 15,000. tone the communications will un Spanish troops to Tetuan occasion

questionably be approved by theed keen anxiety.

British people overseas. The severity of the important demands of the British Government is con- sidered fully justified by all the

Rearguard Cut Off.

Notwithstanding the evacuation from Sheshuan was carried, out

It reached

circumstances. It is emphasised with all material, the rearguard that the matter admits of no foreign participation; on the other hand, Britain is defending the interests of all civilized nations.

CAIRO, November 24.

against

the

was attacked when Diracoba with resulting heavy Spanish losses.

General Berenguer was wounded immediately after he arrived on The Indemnity demanded bas the battlefield. The troops thence been paid, accompanied by aruggled to Soukelarbs where Note protesting

they were sampunded and subse- demands for the withdrawal of the quently forced to retreat along Egyptian troops from the Sudan mountain paths. The Spanish and the withdrawal of opposition lines of communicatior's have been to the wishes of the British Government in regard to the protection of foreign interests in Egypt which are characterised as unjustifiable.

To Seize Customs. Lord Allenby has Informed Zaglul that as the first measure to

be taken owing to the non-

cut. Hasty preparations are being made at Tetuan to assist the Spanish force in retreat.

SHIPPING DEADLOCK.

AT MELBOURNE,

acceptance of all the British FAILURE OF ARBITRATION demands, British forcés, have been instructed to occupy the Alexandria customs.

The Cabinet has resigned. The King has accepted the resignation and summoned Siwar Pasha, the President of the Senate, who has consented to form a Cabinet.

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BOXING.

ERNIE IZZARD DEFEATS JACK KIRK.

(Reuter's American Servios.)

LONDON, Novembor 24. At the National Sporting Club, a 20 round contest for the British light-weight championship and the Lonsdale Belt. Erate Izzard, of Herne Hile, defeated. Jack Kirk, of Doncaster

The decision was given' on points.

(Reuter's Servico.)

MELBOURNE, November 24

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HONGKONG'S BEGGARS.

THE POLICE VAN MAKES A TOUR.

UNSIGHTLY FIGURES REMOVED.

Instead of nearly freezing to When the "Mail" man passed: || death in the chilly streets, our the spot, his bundle was still street mendicants were given a propped up against the wall but Joy-ride this morning in the local he was not there. Evidently, he

Black MAMA

had been spotted by the van and In charge of Sergeant Nolloth,had been carried off. an Indian sergeant and a driver, the police motor van went out to the highways and the byways to bring in the poor creatures, some of whom make their homes in the most conspicuous parts, "of the streets.

After a short run, about half a dozen mendicants had been collected and put inside the van where they were safe from the wind,

That the outlaws are no respec- tors of persons-or flags is evi-

Going up Queen's Road Central, the van turned into Pedder Street dent from an attack on the

and along Des Voeux Road. Here Standard Of Co.'s tug "Comet," which when towing a lighter load-it stopped to pick up a human ed with kerosine, was attacked derelict, reclining against the wall near the same part of the river, of the new P. & 0. building.

It is believed that the recent on her way down to Hongkong.

campaigns in Kiangsu, Chekiang Successfully boarding the tug and around Shanghai, coupled and lighter, the pirates forced the with the usual tendency of crew to break open the Customs wandering tribes in Central China seals but found only kerosine provinces to migrate south at this

inside the containers.

Disappointed at having to leave with empty hands, one of the gang struck a sailor with the butt of his rifle. The victim is now in hospital with a broken rib.

EMPIRE TRADE.

AIM TO DISSIPATE PREJUDICES.

STATEMENT BY AMERY. (Renter's Service.).

LONDON, November 24, re Speaking at the Empire Pro ducers' luncheon, Mr. L. S. Amery, Colonial Secretary, announced that the Government would carry out the 1923 Imperial Conference's preference scheme.

MR. 1. §. AMERY.

time of the year, has resulted in an influx of mendicants larger than usual--hence this morning's police measures.

a young man who appeared to be Down at the Western market, quite able-bodied, was treating a small crowd to an exhibition of classical penmanship. His writ ing materials comprised a stub of chalk and some ruled spaces on the concrete pavement. The palm of his hand served as an eraser.

had been burnt at Lotien when He was a scholar whose home the Kiangsu-ites advanced on Shanghai.

With the coppers that he had collected he went off to buy a meal. Then a practical joker-clad only in a singlet full of holes and a pair of threadbare cotton trousers took his place. His attempts to teach Chinese writing brought laughter but no cash.

wyndham Street to Wellington With his pitch extending along

Street, an old who claima

Northerner association with on his back was on

"* Joss # his knees asking for alms. He Enforced demobilisation in Chinese territory, just beyond the did not seem to mind the cold as British border on the mainland, in he wore several thickly padded the case of several detachments obtain information from him was rough gowns. An attempt to of pro-Sun defenders, has also brought a number of mendicants abortive, the "Mail" man's know- ledge of the Anhui province Into the Colony.

Behind the Harbour Office there: dialect being limited to a few was found, a man covered with words. sores. He displayed his badge and a scroll explaining how he had give all rounded-up beggara a meal been disarmed by the. Chan and repatriate them at the first Kwing-ming invaders--and ask- opportunity, the majority trivel- ing for charity. To a passer-byling, under escort, by the night who inquired what had happened boat to the 9th police district in Canton, close to to his rifle, the man replied that station, if he still had it, he would be with Shameen. Unfortunately these his colleagues who had turned efforts are often nullified as the bandt. This despite the fact "old hands" return to their hunt- that his health had been impaired. ing grounds by the next steamer.

PARTNERS AT ODDS.

As far as is known the Police

BRITISH EXHIBITION.

QUESTION OF REPUDIATING TO MAKE ARRANGEMENTS

LIABILITY.

An alleged partner who re- pudiates liability in respect of a firm against which a judgment for levying of execution was given in │* court appeared as defendant in a Summary jurisdiction action before Mr. Justice H. H. J. Gompertz this morning, Mr. H. S. Fitzroy, in stracted by Mr. G R. Haywood, appeared for the Fuk Shang Lee firm, the plaintiffs, and Mr. C. G Alabaster K.C. for Lau Ping-lam, the defendant.

The firm concerned is the Meo San soap factory, Hongkong, to whom the plaintiff supplied fat.

The partnership book was pro duced by Mr. Fitzroy and extracts were read from it according to which the defendant was a partner with $1,000 capital.

The Secretary for the Colonies further hinted at opportunities within the general fiscal system of The plaintiff gave evidence and Britain to give further extensions cross-examined by Mr. Alabaster. of preferences. `-

sald that he had chosen to proceed The Government, said Mr. agalost this partner rather than Amery, also aimed to clear two other acknowledged ones be channels for Empire trade, which cause he had alway paid the bills. were choked by various prejudices agalust ihpëtial preferences and vested interests.

GERMAN FINANCE.

The court of arbitration, sum- moned in connection with the maritime strike, has come to a deadlock. Both parties declare they áre unable to get man to work. The Judge pointed out he is PAPER powerless, neither side admitting the Court's jurisdiction.

GIFT TO HOLLAND.

ROCKEFELLER TO AID SCIENCE.

(Router's Service.)

CONVERTED GOLD."

(Reuter's Servige.)

INTO

BERLIN, November 24.

QUEEN'S THEATRE.

THE GOLDEN GIFT."

FOR 1975.

(Reuters Service.)

LONDON, November 24. The members of the executivė council of the British Empire Exhibition has passed a resolution. recommending the continuance of the Exhibition in 1925. They have also authorised the existing Board, with the addition of the Duke of Devonshire to make arrangements. to that end..

LITTLE OLD' NEW MORK.

THE STAR'S EXCITING FILM.

many

Not the least of the incidents in the story which the Star Theatre offers its patrons this week, ds the one of the whipping post, where the heroine, disguised as a boy, undergoes the penalty of having stopped a prize fight at its most exciting stage, by ringing a Are bell-this in the interests of her favourite. The herione Is rushed through an excited mob of a thousand men to the post and there takes her medicine." This is quite the real thing and it in ro

A fascinating story of treasure is corded that when Marion Davies, who takes the leading part, under that unfolded in "The Golden took this little bit of realism, she Gift," Alice Lake's latest starring refused to employ an understudy picture for Metro, which will be and suffered the punishment to shown at the Queen's Theatre. such an extent that the marks of But the treasure is not that usually it are with her to this day. The At a general meeting of the painted in the public mind with fortunes of the little Irish girl in Deutsche Bank a proposal was golden gifte; it is a treasure for America who assumes disguise sanctioned for conversion of the more precious, about which is In order to retain the wealth which paper mark capimi 1,500,000,000 woven a starring mory of love and should have gone to her invalid into a gold capital of 150,000,000 adventure. It is the story of an brother who died on the way outs of which sbarcetotalling 40,000,000 open singer who, with a young has been followed with great marks were sold to a London child to support, finds herself thrown interest by crowds of patrons. The banking group headed by the upon her own resources through the picture will be shown at the Star THE HAGUE, November 24 Schroeder Company. The shares desertion of her husband. She goes until Thursday next,

will be disposed of in foreign to a border dance hall and, leaving The Dutch Minister of Education markets at the most favourable the child to be taken care of at the has announced that the Govern“ moment.. ment has been minst glad to accept the offer of " the international ARA EL PASO, November 24. Education Board of the Rocke

At its annual convention, the feller Foundation of $100,000 to Federation of Labour, by an over equipa natări science laboratory. whelming majority rejected the Government has also agreed to the proposal to support a new political donor's condition that 20. anzual party. It reaffirmed its adherence subsidy of £10,000 shall be placed Ito a strict non-partisan policy. at the disposal of the laboratory,

AMERICAN LABOUR.

ADHERES TO NON-PARTY POLICY.

(Reuter's Servico.).

PAPER MAIL

Thy" Hadurg Man" with the wwosper- mail? (Lemons Octo" ber 23) arrived hers at 27 rims.

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dances before going to the screen, takes full advantage of it in ber letest picture.

Mission, becomes a famous Copern singer. At the height of her suc- cess she discovers that the man she loves has become a guardian to her child and she dude the treasure she seeks is really a golden gift. By special request the film, The picture gives Alite lake Canton, Disaster will be shown chance to display her wondeful again together with another newe on the late 7Kinga- dancing ability, and this star, who real won fame for herself by her artistic Chekiang, War

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