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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1925,

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COMING LATER.

"FIERY CROSS,”

MISSING SEAPLANE.

MOROCCO GRAND OFFEN- SIVE PLANS.

ARRESTS ALL OVER GERMANY.

CLUE TO FATE OF THE..

CREW.

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RAINY SEASON FACTOR.

(Reuters Service.)

Paris, Sept. 10. A message from the Moroccan front states that the artillery preparation continues. but the present operations are intended to induence the tribes now heyond French jurisdiction by the occu- pation strategic positions

of which will assure the tribes of protection and at the same time serve as bases tor mobile furces

The grand offensive will come

later and will take the rainy

season into consideration. Slight rain has already fallen.

EARLIER CABLES,

FRONTIER INCIDENT,

(Reuter's Service)

Berlin, Sept. 10. The police have unearthed u complete list of members of the Fiery Cross mentioned earlier and have instructed the authorities all over the country to arrest all

of the members.

The arrested include the well- known Nationalists ex-Lieutenant Hildebrandt, Dr. Huebner, and ex-Captain Klipproth.

The laat-named was apprehend- frontier into Holland in a motor ed on the point of crossing the

car.

AVIATORS' COATS FOUND,

(Router's Service.)

Honolulu, Sept. 10. Two aviators' coats and two

THE CHINA

URGENT NEEDS.

THE POLICY OF DRIFT

4 CONDEMNED.

READER'S STRONG VIEWS.

MAIL

TYPHOON DELAYS.

"EMPRESS OF RUSSIA

ARRIVES.

DESTROYER ANSWERS S.0.8.

After encountering, advarse weather at different stages of the voyage from the American Pacific coast, the R.M.S. "Empress of Russin" arrived here at 7.30 this our morning with mails, passengers

and cargo.

From મ correspondent who signs himself "J.C." we have re- ceived a letter dealing with local problems of the first hiportance. Owing to the pressure on space to-day we are unable to publish the letter in full. Refer- They are supposed to be a cluering to the growing atmosphere to the fate of the crew of the of tiredness and drift," J.C. missing seaplane. search continues.

life-preserving jackets marked United States Navy have been found at different places along the coast near Hilo.

The Navy

come

was

A cable Usted September 2, seaplane in a rough sea drenched stated:-Five men in a disabled

by a tropical storm is the picture It appears the order was found-evoked by reports of the warships ed two years ago and played a searching in mid-Pacific for sea- great part in the revolt of the c-plane P59, No. 1, one of the two called Black Reichswehr which that started to fly to Hawail. She Paris, Sept. 1, Add på Krim las apparently started in 1929 in the fortresses wirelessed that she would prob- launched counter-stroke to thw of Cuestrin and Spandau. ably be forced to descend at 1.45 landing at Allegras, sccording t

p.m. yesterday, 150 knots from a Madrul comuniqué which saye

Thirty "Knights of the Fiery the island of Maui, owing to ad- that the enemy in this western sector Cross" were arrested by the

verse winds and lack of fuel. are still obstinately endeavoring to police who claim that they have "We shall crack up if we break through this Spanish front in discovered a dangerous extremist down in this weather," the Roilomar seeter, sonth of organisation of a thousand mem-almost the last message received Tutunt. Tenend Soust'a enlammbers. The founders of the new from the 'plane, offered strong resistances. The con-order are three Americans who

et of the native troops was are among the arrested espreidly gallant. The enemy were They came to Germany to create provided with guns, manechine goes an organisation on the lines of and hand grenades,

the Ku Klux Klan in order to General Primo de River remains liberate Germany from persons nd Tetuan for the prosent. The not "100

per cent. true “coromanqué states tai reports from | Germans,"

Allakemas are very satisfactory. Gener) Saro's troops are consolidat- dar a provisioning busy and con- aleeting defence wark. The enemy's resistance is slight. The troops inder General Fernandes Perez have not vol. Innded.

Paris, Sept. 10. The "Matin's" Tamat corros- pondent emphasises the intensity of the artillery propuvation in the gen- gml French attack, on the Wezzan sector and stys, never before have so many aeroplanes been seen in the Monocran sky, while battalion after butation-marches along the dusty rounds towards the front, wh wonded chwn.

are already being

Lyons, Sept. 14. Speaking at an important mest ing of the Consil--General of the ther bl. found Herial aid he

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gove his support to the Govern. ment's policy in Moroëce. font voted unanimously

mer.

FINES AND JAIL.

DISOBEDIENT SEAMEN

ment.

SENTENCED.

OWNERS' LATEST OFFER.

(Reuter's 'Service.)

Melbourne, Sept. 10%

WINE LABELS.

ALLEGED SCHEME TO

EVADE DUTY.

REVENUE OFFICER CHARGED.

A scheme for defrauding the Revenue Department was disclos- ed at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday

T S

for

the

saying that all efforts must be underdered to forfeit 5a, for every labels, which would be taken back

for the sucrose of the expedition in Morved

THOSE DEBTS.

AMERICAN AND FRANCE'S OWINGS.

SAME TERMS AS BRITAIN.

† Renter'a Service.)

Salt Lake City, Sept. 10. Mr. Smoot, Chairman of the American Debt Funding Commis- sion, in an address here, declared that France cannot hope for a more favourable settlement of her debt to America than was award- e to Britain. She cannot pre- sume that the United States will accept any plan formulated by the recent conference between Mr. Churchill, British Chancellor of

NEGROES IN TROUBLE.

· Melbourne, Sept. 10. The British shipowners have rabled that they are prepared to continue to pay allotment money to the strikers' families if the men will return to full duty under the present articles.

Further convictions involving imprisonment have been obtained against disobedient seamen, in- cluding negroes, at Sydney.

BANDIT LEADER.

TERMS FOR MR. HOWARD'S RELEASE.

to the distillery to be used again. The accused was also alleged to have obtained from the complain- ant a sum of $100, which was found on his person on a search being made after receipt of a com. plaint.

The case was adjourned.

SHARES DISPUTE.

APPEAL AGAINST JUDGE'S DECISION.

writes!

In the report to the Harbour Office it is stated: Encountered typheon weather off Nagasaki.

According to advice from Shanghai she was kept back for 16 hours by that storm und an- other typhoon off Woosung the

was September 7. last week-end added to the delay. The scheduled date of arrival here

"There is no excuse for any policy of drift, or

for any easing down of our standards as

round the city in the course of the regards the governance of the Colony.

In one's wanderings

day, one seems to notice every. In th Northern typhoon of last where a slovenlinegg and a slack-week-end grave fears were enter ness in the way that public work aind for the NY.K. steamer is being carried on. For example, Yoshino Maru" which was in the the streets, before the strike, middle of the depression. She were always clean and well swept. sent out a wireless S.0.3, which Now, particularly at tram stops, was answered by the U.S.S. they look as if they were never "Non" swept, or as if the cleaning up and washing away of rubbish depend ed on the wind and ruin. Let one cast one's eyes up the side streets when going along the Fraya East on a tram, and notice what a fearful state some of them are in. Not to spin out, what I have said about street cleaning, applies to most of the jobs that are in pro-! gress.'

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Besides hindering the "Empress of Russia" the typhoon also held up the "Empress of Canada" which left Hongkong for Shanghai. and did not arrive in time.

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DESCRIPTIVE RECITALS

BY BRANSBY WILLIAMS

J SCROOGE BEFORE THE DREAM

THE DREAM -

SCROOGE THE AWAKENING

MICKAWBER'S ADVICE TO COPPERFIELD

347

348

350

THE SHOWMAN

388

400

BILL SYKES

408

THE GREEN EYE OF THE YELLOW GOD THE CARE TAKER

TONY WELLER

DREAM SCENE FROM "THE BELLS"

THE PORTRAIT

ANDERSON'S

NEW SUMMER SILKS

"Now let us leave the present and take a long view of the future. of Hongkong. Surely by now the Government must have realised the publie are not children and that it is quite safe to take them

Harbin, August 30. into their confidence as regards Just two years ago. Mr. L. M. the broad outlines of their policy. Kankhan was met in Harbin, on We all applauded when the round his arrival from Moscow, by an when Tang Hon, aing up polley was inaugurated, enormous crowd of people. Fle wILS Chinese revenue -officer, was and we can all see what a bene- yesterday greeted by Soviet. charged with intimidation. ficial effect it has had, particular citizens of Harbin in such a manner The story as outlined by Mr. ty in the criminal courts. What Kings and imperors are LLC. Whyte-Smith the we would all like to know--and customed to. A special trein of eight A hundred strikers of various prosecution was that the com- undoubtedly we are entitled to cure, inching the many celebrates COLUMBIA NEW-PROCESS RECORDS vessels have been sentenced to a

plainant, Wong Yuet, owner of know-is what the policy is going chun to bring him to flurbin and No 56, was sent specially to Ching. fortnight's or three weeks" impri-

the Woo Sung Distillery of to be in the future. Are we going sonment for disobedience of law- Cheung Sha Wan, had been to drift back to that miserable may representatives of the Russian Consulate and the G. E.R, went to threatened by the accused with policy of admitting the lame, the most him. Thousands of people tful commands.

bodily harm if he refused to halt and the blind, the criminals crowded the road to the Harbin Wellington, Sept. 10. Twenty-eight seamen of the submit to a scheme for defrauding and Bolsheviks, who all make of railway station and literally hun- liner "Port Dunedin" have been the Government of duty. Green. Hongkong 好 happy hunting dreds of motor cars fought their sentenced to a month's imprison-labels were affixed to bottles of ground? Or are we going to con- way through the crowd. As the train

wine leaving the distillery, and tinue the policy of frequent clean-timed into the station, A number of strikers of the the Crown suggested that the ups, followed by the deportation symphony orchestra played the steamer "Benecia" have been scheme was to send the hotties to of undesirables? What is the trains of the International" and noticin

dealers and then remove

real objection to a poll-tax?" all eyes were fixed en eur 56.

J.C. points out that Fran4day's absence from their duties.

thewhere, however, ody a

Russian French and Americans are both wer Was to be AGOT. Mr. able to collect a poll tax in. neigh Kamakhon and sante huppened to be bouring colonies and suggests in the observation car at the end of that the revenue, amounting to the train. As he descended from millions even with the poll tax as the carriage, the air wene rent with low as $2 per head, would go a moter sirena and hors said long way to fill "the nasty gap" the turrals of the thousands of the depression will make in the people. He entered flig large arrival Colony's revenus.

room where fruit and champagne] "a one & pessimist if one were served and he was introduced that British business to heads of the Railway Depart- houses, both old and new, are ments and to the Chinese adminis

During this re. going to be very badly hit in some tretive chiefs. cases, perhaps, even to drop out?" seption the brass hand from, the J.C. asks next. "Granted that, it ailway Chab played selections. means a big reduction of staffs. After a quarter of an hour, the from top to bottom. One knows.

police made a roul for the Soviet also, that a very large propor-missador and his family, who Leave of appeal was granted in tion of British coast shipping is er or cars and drove to a the Supreme Court yesterday in laid up, and that Norwegian railway bone which is bean put@NCESS respect of a case in which Mr. Japanese and others have got et was served at the Chinese ut his disposal. Last night a habes- Justice Wood had held against a such a footing that it will be administration quarters, and to-day broker who sued another broker long time before British shipping there are three special fetings, to Telegrams to the American on the grounds that he had broken is running again at any profit. Mr. Karakha The first is a the Exchequer, and M. Caillegation from Harbin state that a contract in not taking up 100 That means, in conjunction with lunch as the Railway workmen's

the terms

with regard to Mr. Shanghai Dock shares.

the starvation wages paid in C, the first that this Club hasi Howard's release have now been

One particular point stressed by Norwegian and Japanese ships, ever given, the second a five o'clock arranged with the bandits' leader Sir Henry Pollock, K.C... who that there will be any number of tear at the Railway Club for the who is expected to arrive at appeared for the petitioner for the Britishers out of jobs on the heads of all the railway depart Huachuan to-day to complete the appeal, was that Mr. Justice Wood China Coast."

ments and this evening a grand final negotiations.

had held for the contract to be]

"Is it not time that some notice unqual at the Railway Club. To Some delay, however, is regard-binding that an exchange rate for was taken of the increasing num- morrow morning Mr. Karakhan ed as inevitable in view of the the transaction should be fixed a bers of Russians who are flocking leaves for Moscow, travelling in the difficulties attending communica-week before settlement day. The into the Colony? There was a special train as far as the frontier tion between the bandit leader meaning of this term in the con- time when Russians were forbid and in his special car right through and his camp.

tract, said Sir Henry, was that the den to land here on the ground to the end of the journey. The fit exchange was to be ascertained that Hongkong did not wish to ting up of this car has cost "the that was to say the current rate Shanghai was up against. It is dollars and no crowned head. has one week before settlement day, have to face the problem that C.FR sum of thirty thousand

for that day to be ascertained for quite time that our own problem ever had such a sumptuous carriage the purpose of converting tuels of what is going to happen to our to travel in. into Hongkong dollais..

own people, who will be axed, during the, coming winter,,, were thoroughly gone into.. After economic organisation of the pointing to the fact that Russians whole department." Geneva, Sept. 11.

are doing work which could be League control in Austria has

"Finally, what about the ser done by Britons, J.C. remarks: vant question? The request for considerably diminished by the

It is quite time that the Govern- Registration was passed at the end of the year. League's High

ment began to get busy on this meeting with no dissentient voice. Commissioner, Mr. Zimmerman,

problem of unemployment. They What is the use of girding at the will leave Vienna in accordance SILVER WEDDINGS. have the example of Singapore Home Government for ignoring with the Financial Committee's

before them, and there is at pre- our united voice on Imperial report recommending the gradual abolition of League control, Aimai Villas, Kowloon, entertain lang and severe a storm as contemptuously ignored by the Mr. and Mrs. David Harvey, of sent nothing to show that Hong-affairs, if we are going to allow kong may not have to endure fuat oarselves to be completely and though on Mr. Austen Chambered a large number of friende at à Singapore faced with peac local government in domestic Iain's proposal Australia It is semi-officially demed that undertake not to oppose the re- day evening, in celebration of Turning to another side of the happened in thle servant question party at the Station Hotel reater tically the same problema affairs. Actually, what has there is an epidemic of plague at introduction of control in the their silver wedding. They were problem, are the pubile not en is exactly nothing: We are just Marseilles, and it is pointed out event of her failure to fulfil her the recipients of congratulations led to know what the Govern drifting along waiting for these that a few isolated cases occurred obligations under the League. in the summer but at present the

upon this happy event which took ment are doing to trim ship and same people to return, when they situation la quite satisfactory,

place at the Union Church, Kow shorten sail to meet the storm? will be received with open arms Boy: "Alf a pound o mar-loon, both having resided in the After the recent Inquests, with and all will continue as before. Colony for nearly 80 years. the summings up and the Juries There may possibly be a short in

br. and Mrs. C. H. Lammert riders, we all know that things interlude while the emp also celebrated their silver wed- the ding yesterday, Mr. Lammert has

D. are pretty rotten Impressing on them resided in Hongkong since the attack 'on' Shame hére

French Finance Minister.

FINLAND FINANCE.

GOLD STANDARD TO BE RESTORED?

(Reuter's Service.).

Helsingfors, Sept. 10. "The Government's financial

advisers recommended the re- storation of the gold standard and the

preparation of & new monetary law in accordance with the recently drawn up proposals.

It is proposed that the par value of the Finnish mark shall be 39/70 for the gold dollar.

PLAGUE REPORT.

MARSEILLES SITUATION

SATISFACTORY

(Reuter'a Service.).

Paris, Sept. 10.

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(Reuter's Service.)

Peking. Sept. 11.

STRONGER AUSTRIA. LEAGUE CONTROL GREATLY

DIMINISHED.

(Reuter's Service.).

will

London, September 19-The regerine, an please will you make port has been denied that Japanese it up like a model of the Prince, Balvore e preparing to attempt to co we've got company!!!" recover the gold from the Peninsulae.

and Oriental liner Egypt, which

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