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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1926.

TRADE BOOM?

CHEAPER TYRES."

OPTIMISTIC EXPERTS AT HOME.

STIMULUS TO MOTORING ACTIVITIES.

MOTOR-CYCLE FOR £25.

Rugby; Oct. 5.

VIGOUR OF OUR INDUSTRY,

Rugby, Oct. 5.

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$45,000 HAUL.

Valuables Taken From

Hsin Fong."

NO CASUALTIES.

Compradores Seized on Pirated Steamer.

"

THE CHINA MAIL.

GIVE AND TAKE!

(Continued from Page? 1.)

The southern roport that they had obtained a decisive victory and had captured Shasi is now denied.

DEATH" PERJURY,

PROPERTY LEFT"BY CHINESE MERCHANT.

CASE AFTER 8 YEARS.

Having sworn báforo a commis- The opposito. seems to have hap-onor of oaths as long ago RB pened, as their farees were driven December 17, 1921, a Chipre named back as far as Kangan.

Chun Chung-ming of Messrs. Hoo

from Stangyang has started earnest. for word has been received

that the northern trcops under the

Slangyang garrison commissioner have now reached lchang on their way down the Han.

Was

Bail was fix-

JAIL SMOKES.”

In commercial and economien The announcement that reduc circles here there is a general be- tions. ranging from 714 per cent. lief that a period of trails, prosto 20 per cent. have been made in perity is at hand.

the prices of motor cycle and

Having been steered for 4 days Now,comes, the report that Yang Cheong Wo (shipshandlers) was Oplaions to this effect have been motor car tyres represents an im- expressed by Sir Philip Cualife portant advance in the direction at the point of the pistols of the Sen is sending down a force of charged with perjury at the Magis pirates who had taken possession, between 20,000 and 30,000 men tracy this morning, and a remand Lister, President of the Board of of cheaper motoring, Trade, by several prominent writóra This is the third decrease in 900 miles out of her ecurse, with from Wanhsien to join in the gen-was ordered.

Defendant is alleged to have told on cronophic subjects, and by lead-tyre prices this year, and it is the officers powerless to send dis-er push against "the southurn ing authorities in banking and probable that the announcement tress signals to pussing ships under forces, and it would seem that a the Colonial Treasurer that certain but ontitted deceased's.. Share of commercial worlds

will have a considerable effect in pain of death, the China Merehapta general push will soon be under property was left by Chan Sik-fo

at the steamer, 8., "sh Feng." whose way from the weat. Various renaona ne? advanced to stimulating business

In Other Sectors.

$10,000 in the Yik Cheong Arm

Mr. W. B. ind is for the defence It would also seem by the hurried Support this optimism, British in-Motor Cycle Show which began piracy we reported briefly yester-

the Motor Car day, arrived in Hong Kong yester dustry generally has shown vigour yesterday and

movement for the prosecution. and elasticity during a peried when Show which will follow it at day afternoon, having been released despatch of troops up the Hanand Det. Sub-Inspector C. P. Fallon

ined at $2,500.. it might have been expected to be Olympia. Lower prices are a fea- by the pirates who diverted it from River that the likely entirely crippled by the cod stopture of several of the machines the Shanghai-Tientsin run to their pagh "A general resumption of shown at the Motor Cycle Exhibi-patronghold in Blas Bay. work in the wines--which, it is Lion, one make of motor cycle Captain Ross of the as "Hein widely believed will not now be being put on market for £25, and Fong" reports to the police that hi much longer delayed--eoupled with the leading motor car manufac-ship left Shanghal on Dctober 1 the prospect of a reorganised conk] turczy in their programmes for with passengers and cargo for industry will act as a stimulus. next year-prepared in anticipa- Chefoo and Tientsin.

With about 12 hours out, thirty The agreements signed between tion of the Show-have also employers and employed at the made substantial price reductions, armed pirates who had boarded as termination of the general strike A good year in the rubber plan-passengers, took charge of the shipping to Liolin which is some dis.In an endeavour to make her and the prolongation of the con tations is one of the factors that and thread them to steer to Bins deadlock tend to discourage farther have made tyre: reduction poggi Bay. condicts and to increase the hopes ble, and the prospects of improv The pirates landed on Triple of a prolonged Industrial peace ined trade have also "encouraged Island at Bins Bay, taking with which disputes will be settled by manufacturers of tyres and mathem swo members of the compra

They took cargo and Chines to bring down their prices. dore staff negotiation or arbitration

Meanwhile efforts are being made) In opening the Motor Cycle valuables also to the value of to develop our expanding Imperial Show the Coloning Secretary, Mr. $15.366. markets which. In the first half of L. S. M. Amery, expressed grati- the present year, absorbed 44, per fication with the progress made pean was robbed. cent of the total Pritish exports in the Dominion and Empire mar- From other sources it is gather- Co-incident with the clearing of kets. Whilst this was due ined that the baggage and persons the international" political horizon. part to the valuable preferences of the passengers were ransacked, foreign nations are recovering their accorded, it was mainly the result everything of valve being taken, purchasing power, whilst at the of the enterprise of the industry and the best of the eargo, consist- same time. British producers are itself, The British rond vehicle ing of silk and other valuable com- now finding possible to reduce the Show's held in Australia had modities) was also put into walt-WHY I LIKE ENGLAND:

the vessel prices of their commodities. stimulate the demand? and heng sampans when

The Board of Trade state nents warmly cenmmended the organ-arrived at Bias Bay, the pizutas?

show that this year British trade has made a stendy improvement u spite of the difficulties it has en countered and this is hoppe cut by reports from the leading industry centres throughout the country-- British Wireless Service.

BITTER TONE.

SAFETY MEN WITHDRAWN

FROM MINES.

WELSHMEN'S DECISION.

•.

received No information locally as to the situation in Honant further north) but it is announced! that military trains are now run tance this side of Sinyangchow.

IS THERE NO`LAW TO CONVICT.

husband's stay in fall lenient.

Little has taken place outside woman was charged this morning! wachang, but, Tang Sang-chee evi- before Mr. J. H. B. Nihill at the dently intends to strengthen his Kowloon magistracy with smug. the jail cigarettes, and Terces in this centre by reinforce-ing to matches, ments from Hunan.

The woman apparently took every The first of these have arrived but only comprise a company. How precaution to "put through" her No one was injured and no Euro-ever it is estimated that this is but trick for she had placed the cigar- the beginning of a general move-ettes and matches inside a cake ment of his troops which are at which would not be noticed at first present at Yoghow and in Hunan:ight.

Mr. Nihill said that there wils.no C. C. Post,'

isation of similar Shows which stronghold. were in contemplation for "South Africa and India next year.-Bri. ush Wireless Service,

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MONEY MAKING.

COOLIDGE PUTS STRESS ON

." "PROSPERITY."

connéry.

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It is stated that, according to scraps of conversation overheard between the pirates. they were under the impression that the ship was carrying bullion but, in spite of a thorough search, nothing in the way of doin or banknotes was Tound

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NOT SO MUCH OFFICIAL PUSSINESS.

[By A Woman Traveller.] England is the paradise of the absent-minded, "the casual and

one may use the term-the law-abidingly lawless.

England is the only country

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law to convict the defendant and after cautioning her, dismissed, the

case.

Shadows Before.

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED.

IN THE "MAIL”

Entertainments.

October Queen's Theatre; nti 5.10 and 9:20 p.m. Viola Dana in

A feature of the piracy was that where they never want to see 40 Winks": at 7.15 p.m. Douglas theagh valuables and money were taken from the luggage of the those mysterious objects which Fairbanks in "The Black Pirate."

I have October 6-World Theatre p Chinese passeggers the belongings they can your "ppers."

in "The Richard Barthelmess Bright Shawi.”

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October 6-Star Theatre: "Scars of Jealousy" 5.30 to 8.15 pm.

October 6--The Globe Trotters' endless recondite at the Star Theatre, Kowloot, 9.15. October 10--Stage performance

October 21-Grand Concert under the auspices of the Navy League.

Sports. October 6-9-Anhua) aquatic one of the Victoria Recreation i

FOR REPUBLICAN PARTY. -

or the "only European passenge: never known just what one's and that of the officers of the shi, papers are supposed to consist of, Washington, Sept. 28.

were not interfered with. but believe one's birth certi- "National prosperity" is the

The seaplane "which had bean ficate, one's marriage, lines, and London October 5. omly itsue that President despatched on scouting that in one's "carte d'ideale," which The special delegate conference Coolidge approves in the forth-Bias Bay in consequence of a wire contains of the South Wales Miners" Federn coming congressional and state les message received here by the information) form part of them. tion held at Cardiff, has over-elections and emphatically ob- "Sechuen," bound for Amey. The "curte d'identile," it ap. at the Tai Yat-Theatre. Yaumati, whelmingly reighted the dotem beets to the of his mane by arrived on the scene whilst tapears, contains your life history students of Sacred Heart Eng- ment's proposals.

Some of the speakers adrestedmpaigners in all parts of the boot was being reneved but was and that of most of your, relaish School, 10 am..

cnable to do anything other than blogs, This attitude is shown definite-make a report. a general withdrawal of the safety!

Personally.. I have never

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and intensive prosecution of:

ly in an incident which ofcurred The officers on board the pirated possessed such a thing, and a the strike.

to-day and which is already effec-vessel were fapt, W. Ross, Chief zealous Swiss official once com- There is an important devotive in causing a revision of cam alger. Mr. Berk. Second Officer.pletely refused to let me go from mant in the mining dispute. 'Tize

me Shods. On Saturday. L. Grohe, Chief Engineer, Mr. Lausanne to Base unless I could Miners' Pederation has withdrawn

Colorado, P. Cambell, Second Engineer, Mr. tell him what he regarded as be. . Phipps. of the safety men at several of the

chairman of the national Repub. Cornachan, Third Enginger, Mr.ing a vital piece of information of the Hong Kong Jockey Club at

Happy Valley. large collieries in Glamorgan on the

Hican senatorial committee, Marzipan.

the age of my mother.

October 30-Fanling Hunt.Races. ground that some the fet sue statement to the effett

The "sin Fong" will sait for! I hid had no idea how old Kwanti Race Course. Fanling. mon are being used for engh cul that "if the people, approve of northern ports to-day at noon. she wa: and "anyway 1, was sure;

November --Sixth bi-annual fing-Reuter

the administration of President "No approximate, estimate of the she would hate me to tell him, annual race for the "Trevеnsa Proposals Rejected.

to personal belongings, nud cargo at which trifling with sacred Trophy" from Channel Rocks, 4 Coolidge they should vote London. Oct. 6. The miners in. Durham, South Sustafa him by the election of a taken by the pirates is available matters he instantly sent for a higher official, who decided that! Staffordshire, and East Worcester Republican majority

the absence of all proper papers} shire have rejected the Covenhouses of congress."

proved that I really was English ment's proposala.- Router.

"J

IRON CROSS "HERO."

SHOOTS FRENCH ARMY OFFICER

Paris, October 5. „ 1

Cernian incidents in the Rhineland,!

it is repeted that a French nou. commissioned officer has been sabled and someasly wounded at

iron c/089.

Senator

IN both

Senator Phipps, after a visit

to the White House or Tuesday, LAST NIGHT'S DANCE and respectable! issued another statement to-day saying that the "paramount issue! in the country is and always will be prosperity."-United Press,

HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL

ISSUES RAISED.

Cairo, Sept. 14.

IN HONOUR OF NATIONAL.

..DAY.

* *

I wonder what a French rail way guard would do if for instance, he was placed on the

Club 5.30 p.m.

October 9-Fourth race meeting

p.m.

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Auctions. October 9-At Messrs. Lammert Bros. Sales Room, Duddell Street, sundry household, furniture, 11 am.]

October 12-At Merers. Lammert Bros'. Salon Room, household furniį ture. gte... 2.30 p.m.

Meetings,

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In continuation of the celebra-platform of (let. us call it) Littlej October 16-Annual meeting of! tion of the anniversary of the Muddlethorpe, in Essex, and, saw H.K. Cricket Club, in the Pavilion, | proclamation of Portugal as a re-map after man walking through|5.30 pm.g

November. 6-Twenty-third an Following that EGYPT'S POLITICS. public, a dance was held at the the barrier with a bland marmur

Club Lusitano last night. The of "Senson to the amiling official nual meeting of shareholders of the funation was most ably arranged at the gate, or if he saw the num-Grand Hotel des Wagóns-Litz, Ltd., by the Committee of the Club, ber of people who pay at the exchange Building (2nd "floor). and there were about 500 mem-other end." having cast them-Des Voeux Road, noon.

Miscellaneous, Neustadt by a German, it is alleged, OFFICIAL'S BOOK CRITICISED, bers of the Portuguese community selves frantically into the train

and their friends present. Danc-at the last moment.

October 14-Farewell Trooping| without provocation.

ing commenced at 9 o'clock and In no country abroad can you of the Colour" Murray Parade The assailing is aid to be named Bled, and is an ex-officer of thei An incident occurred in the continued until a later hour, a hope to get round officialdom be- Ground, 4.30 p.m. in connection German Army, decorated with an Chamber Involving the question thoroughly enjoyable time being cause, for instance, it know your with departure" of E/Surrey Rgt.

of the responsibility of the spent. Dance music was provid- face and we consequently be from Hong Kong. He escaped on a motor-cycle. Cabinet in relation to the respon-ed by the Lyric Orchestra. lenient. On the contrary, the The German police have offered sibility of Parliament when a The ball room on the top floor more it knows your face the more their services to the French mili-Deputy claimed that a book writ was tastefully and effectively de-it will hate you; and only a large, tury authorities,

ten by Dr. Taher Hussein contain-corated with red and green elec-tip can stop its hating even tem- SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN HONG The assailant will be tried by ed comments on the country's re-tric lighting effect; while the sup-porarily. Foreign officialdom is

KONG FOR OCTOBER, 1926. Court Martial of the Army fligion. He called for the seizure per room on the first floor had paid by the Government to harry Occupation.

of the book, the dismissal of the been transformed with decora-the public thisisits, sim- harry it The newspapers attribute the author from the Secretaryship of tion of flowers and greenery. The ple view and incident to German Nationalist the Egyptian University, and an library was utilised as a card wil, possessing none of that agitation regarding the evacuation enquiry by Parquet.

room; while another room had easy, kindliness which makes the of the Rhineland.-Repter.

Adly Pasha stated that the been set aside for the use of the British official, from a "Bobby" Minister of Education had already ladies as a lounge and rest room. to an omnibus-conductor, a very taken steps to prevent the recur-**

present help in trouble..

The fact is, that angland is rence of such incidents." The Pre- mier took responsibility for this!

still, in spite of certain recent action, and added that the cham-

restrictions, the country which ber could not dictate to the Gov-)

combines the maximum regard ernment as regards the measures

for law and order with the mini- to be taken, and he made the mat- Motor-car No. 3,431 accidentally mum of interference with the ter a question of confidence. knocked over a rienha coolie, who liberty of the subject. In every

Subsequently the Deputy an- was rendered unconscious.

Tube lift do: we not see""No"

TOKYO LOAN.

UNDERWRITTEN IN LONDON.

London, Oct. '5. The City of Tokyo lean has been underwritten. There will be

TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS;

Several traffic accidents occurred yesterday, na follow-

· £6,000,000 5% per cent. stock, the nounced that, in view of Adly! A motor lorry in Canton Road, Smoking Allowed" aggressively issue price being £831⁄2-Reuter. Pasha's statement, he would near Nelson Street (Kowloon) ran displayed and contemplated by withdraw the resolution, but into a boy who was not seriously dozens of peaceful, Law-abiding would bring an action against Dr. injured.

men with pipes and cigarettes in Taher Hussein in the Courts, Two Chinese men were run into their mouths, who take this little by street trama. One was hurt in joke in the spirit in which, pre- his face hands and leg and the sumably, it is meant?? other refused to go to hospital.

LLS. MISSIONARIES.

Peking. October 5.

The Tuchun of Shenai hus re

piled to the American Legation's representations to the effect that he

BATHING THEFT.

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