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HONG KONG, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1928.
DYE SECRET.
From Dark To Light Shades.
HITHERTO IMPOSSIBLE.
Companies Being Formed In Australia.
Melbourne, Feb. 1.
HOME INDUSTRIES.
Fairs Open In London And Birmingham.
BRITAIN'S RECORD DISPLAY.
13 Miles Of Stands Erected At White City.
London, Yesterday. The 14th British Industries
FLIGHT TO AFRICA.
Part of Normal R.A.F. Training.
̈STARTING IN MARCH.
Four Biglanes To Set Out From Cairo.
London, Yesterday. The "Herald" announces that)
The flight across Africa, which after 15 years of patient experi- Fair, which opens to-morrow at has now become an annual exer- menting, a resident of Prahran the White City, Leadon, and cise in the normal training of the claims to have discovered a dyeing Castle Bromwich, rmingham Royal Air Force, will begin on process which, it is thought, may and continues until March Z will March 1 when four Fairey- revolutionise the industry. be by far the largest trade dis- Napier SF biplanes will set out
The secret of the new process play ever held in Britain.
from Cairo to the Cape and back. lies in the fact that it now ren- Two thousand British manu- They will travel in formation ders it possible to "dye down" facturers have displayed their and to a time table. from dark to lighter shades, best and newest products along The Fairey BF is of the so-called which hitherto has been regarded 13 miles of stands and their cus- general purpose type and can be as impossible.
tomers, including trade buyers converted from a seaplane to a Companies are being formed to from over 60 countries, are landplane in under an hour. It is exploit the process in Australia' arriving in London and Birming- equipped with the well-known and New Zealand.
ham by every train. The London Napier and Lion engine-British hotels this. week-end are Wireless Service. thronged with overseas buyera.
JAPAN ELECTION.
UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE
EXPERIMENT.
One hotel has guests of 17 nation. TITLE TAKEN AWAY.
alities. In another there were 50, buyers, a large proportion of whom were Germans. Other hotels had visitors from Austria, Sweden, Holland, Germany, Siam and America. Visitors have come from Tokyo, Yesterday,
es for afield is the Sey. o'clock to-morrow chelles.
CAMPAIGN OPENS.
Át Bever
EX-RULER OF NABHA STATE.
·
DISLOYAL ACTIVITIES.
New Delhi, Yesterday. The ex-ruler of the Nabha Stato,
tration, ae
result of adverse
morning drums, temple bella cad The annual fair is being in- Ripuda Man Singh, who abdleated sirens will announce the opening creasingly used by manufacturers five years ago on the Government of Japan's firat election under for launching entirely new pro- of India taking over the adminla- Universal Manhood suffrage when ducts on the world markets.
Sir Philip Cunliffe Lister. Pre- judicial findings in connection with 9,000,000 will cast their votes for the first time.
sident of the Board of Trade, pre-n dispute between Nabha and Developments in the last few sides at a Government Banquet to Patiala, has now been deprived of days appear to indicate that the leading exhibitors and buyers at the title of Maharaja, his rights struggle will be even closer than at the Mansion House to-morrow and privileges. His monthly al- Some even fore- night with the Duke of York as lowance has been reduced from first predicted. cast à Minneito victory, but the the chief guest. In the after- general expectation still is that noon the Duke and Duchess of 25,000 to 10,000 rupees. the Selyukal will win by a narrow York will visit the White City also been ordered to
Kodaikanal, Madras. margin not exceeding 20 and pos- while on Thuraday the King and It is officially stated that the ex- Queen will visit the Birmingham section and later, probably the Maharaja had repeatedly partici For the 466 scats there are 969 White City. British Wireless pated in disloyal activities since candidates Including short. 870 Service.
sible even less.
Excitement.
each for the Proletarians and In- dependents while minor groups make up the balance. In spite of the sympathetic attitude of the vernacular Preas the Proletariana are not expected to securo more than a dozen seats,
"BROTHER."
(Continued from Page 1.)
He has, reside at
this abdication in spite of warnings. Hia minor son, Tikka Sahib, suc- ceeds to the throne immediately.— Reuter.
:
THE DEC. 7 -AFFAIR.
AT SESSIONS.
the war zone to make way for ANOTHER PRISONER CHARGED With the time drawing near, ex- Marshal Sun Chuan-fang and one citement is increasing while or two others. who have better Letters and postcarda for Europe and the British Isles are for charges and counter-charges of ir-material in their commands. warded via Siberia if so superscribed.
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regularities are being freely made on all sides.
The Government is freely accus ed of Interference, especially against the proletarians but the charges are flatly repudiated.
· SHOOTING ALLEGED.
THE RED EVIL.
The trial commenced at the Criminal Sossions this morning Raids At Canton, Shanghai
before Sir H. C. Gollan, Chief Jus- and Ningpo.
tice, of the second man charged with complicity in the shooting af- The number of violations of the Canton's hunt for Communists tray of December 7 when, follow- election law are increasing rapid- is now slowing down. However, aing the robbery of a restaurant, ly, though they are mainly of a few arrests were made during several men were challenged by a the week-end but only a few were police picket they were replied to a chase under Several meetings have ended in detained because their names ap- with gunfire and uproar or been broken up by the pear in the registers of the (now running fire was opened.
Prisoner, Chu Chi-chuen, la police while, in one case, a speak- defunct) extremist General Union er was stabbed and another ston- of Labour Delegates. One of the charged on three counts, on the ed and seriously injured.-Reuter. greatest crimes in Canton now first with robbery, on the second jadays is to have one's name traced with shooting with intent and on in that bulky register which was the third with being in unlawful LONDON TO PARIS. seized when the Red rioters were possession of arms and ammuni-
minor nature.
RECORD FLIGHT FOR AIR LINER.
IN 80 MINUTES.
London, Yesterday.
auppressed.
tion,
Shanghal And Ningpe.
The case for the Crown was A series of raids were made at conducted by Mr. H. S. Fitzroy. Shanghai during the week-end, Prisoner was undefended.
The events of the night were re- states the "Kung Sheung Yat Po."
ferred to in counsel's operiing and ¦ On Friday, there were eleven in subsequent evidence. The ex- All commercial air speed re-raids, two of which were in the try of the Met San restaurant by cords for the flight between Lon- International Settlement. Twelve two men as customers at about don and Paris were broken yes- persons were captured and taken 1.30 am, their sudden production terday when the Handle Page to Nationalist military headquar- of revolvers as the shop was about to close, the binding and gagging Jupiter air liner on the Imperial ters Airways Silver Wing Service On Saturday, there were nine of the master and his fokis, and covered the 280 miles from Lon raids(one being in the French the robbery of the safe and cash don to the French capital, in 80 Concession): More than twenty till of $180 was outlined, also the minutes.-British Wireless Ser- people were detained. Further meeting with the police picket, the raids were made yesterday. challenge, the firing and the sub-
At Ningpo, a port in Cheklang sequent proceedings. province not far from Shanghai, Evidence was given as to an In- two raids were made by the Na-dian police constable catching up tionalists on suspected Red hiding with one of the men alleged to be places on Friday"- HUM
the prisoner, his shooting at an- Be Like a Will o' the Wisp. other constable who arrived on the The authorities and merchants scene about the same time and his at Kinli, a minor port along the subsequent arrest when overpower Twenty
persons have been Upper Yangtze, have reported to ed. The arrest was made in Wing drowned in a ferry-bont disaster Hankow that Communiste, aided Lok Street, midway between here and Oakland. by local banditti, broke out on In statements read to the jury, A huge wave crashed on deck and Feb. 11. The Reda here are be the prisoner state that on the 10 persons were swept overboard. lleved to be remnants of the Com- talked with another Chinese on the Panic hindered the reade
vice.
EIGHT DROWNED.
SAN FRANCISCO FERRY BOAT UPSET.
New York, Yesterday
Official List.
Later.
munist army, under General Ho night of the robbery and been Lung which marched far south prevalled on to go to the restaur- last year and even captured ant where he saw the others" The official list reduces the hum Swatow for a week. Other Red committing a robbery. He was ber of the drowned to eight which is between Kienli and Han- but was dragged back With re
hordes have appeared at Sinti; leaving the restaurant before this.
gard to the other charges, he deni ed gullt
Router's American Service.
kow
Mr. C. M. Gee, of the National Aniline Chemical Co. of Shanghai, Mr. C. M. Roberts of the Na- The casels proceeding
tional City Bank of New
was a passenger on the "Presidentved in Hong Kong yeste Taft" which arrived yesterday
ke
Bilk forwarded from here by "Empress of Asia" on January 25 arrived in New York (St. John's Park) on February, 17 having been 28 days in transit.
the "President Tatt
TODAYS DOLLAR
A Chinese named Yee Fong, was knocked down by Military car No. 1272 at the YaumatI end of Nathan Road “yesterday afternoon. He suffered a dislocated back and was The clearing te of the dollar, removed to the Kowloon Hospital In on demand
Was 2/0 3/16, a serious condition.
The DUNCAN SISTERS
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TOPSY EVA
AT THE
UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE
SHOWINGS
QUEEN'S FINA TO-DAY
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20. ***** Also. "Felix Trips Through Toyland."
The exciting and amusing story of a young man who was arrested for a "murder " he himself had invented-
With
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AT THE
WORLD
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TO-DAY Interpreter 2.30 & 7.15.
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IN
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THE NIGHT CRY
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