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THE HONG KONG SO DIRECTORY 1928 Issue

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HONG KONG. MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1928.

SEAMÁN KILLED.

Mysterious West River Tragedy.

VILLAGERS OPEN FIRE.

Surprise Attack On Men Of

H.M.S. "Robin."

INTOLERABLE.

Mussolini On Tyról Question.

SPEECH BY DEEDS.

Italian Premier Throws Out Hint

To Austria.

Rome, Mar. 3.

HAPPY AS A GERMAN.

What Will Happen In 1980.

AMUSING FORECAST.

Britain To Lose India And Blacks To Rule America.

Details are lacking of the

Berlin, Feb. 26. actual circumstances, but in-

Premier Mussolini to-day told the| England, France and Germany, formation is to hand that Able Italian Chamber of Deputies that as they will appear in 1980, are Seaman Ronald Rough, of H.M.S. Austrian, manifestations against described in a book written by R. "Robin," was shot-presumably Italian rule in the Tyrol were be- H. France and just issued by a by villagers when returning to-coming. "intolerable."

Munich publisher, The author

gether with other seamen from a "This is the last time I shall exudes optimism, but there will be shore visit at Kamchuk, (Salnum speak of the Tyrol question," de- many readers, to whom his picture Channel) West River district.clared the Duce. "Next time our of Europe 52 years hence will not Rough received wounds in the speech will be by deeda."

convey an impression of paradise

AT GENEVA.

share of luck. The loss of India

stomach and back from which he This, combined with previous regained. later succumbed. His body was fiery and significant atatements by: "Happy as a German!" will be brought to Hong Kong by H.M.S. Mussolini on the same subject; is come a Buying in 1980, according "Robin," which arrived here yes construed here as tending to make to Mr. France. terday morning and the funeral a serious problem for the League But England, too, is to have her will take place to-day, leaving the of Nations. Royal Naval Hospital at 5 p.m.

It is expected that the League to the empire, which the author It appears that Rough and the will take up consideration of the regards as a foregone conclusion others had taken a football ashore question at its next Council session and which "was generally expect- on Friday afternoon and, after in-in an effort to reach an amicable¦ed to administer the deathblow to dulging in a kick-about they settlement and avoid possible the empire," scarcely ruffled Bri- made to return about 6 p.m. Na-blood-shed.--United Press.

tannia's composure.

India's loss tives of the district appeared on

was borne by the mother-country the scene armed with rifles and

without consternation. details as to what happened next are obscure. It appears that! Rough and another seaman were detached from the others and the leaders among the "Robin" Bluejackets noticed them running to join up with the rest of the party. Fire was opened from the group of natives and Rough fell, mortally wounded. A stretcher party was sent ashore and H.M.S. "Robin" proceeded to Pakkai for the purpose of getting medical assistance. Dr. McDonald, of the Mission Hospital at Pakkai, came aboard but Rough died shortly after arrival in Pakkai.

SOVIET ANXIETY.

ALLEGED PLOTS AT DONETZ

MOSCOW SENSATION.

Riga, Yesterday,

LEAGUE COUNCIL SESSION ENDS.

$

SIR AUSTEN'S VIEWS,

Geneva, Yeaterday. The session of the League Coun- cil has closed.--Reuter.

Just as the French had introduc- ed "nourishment pills," the British had resorted to the propagation of the human race by electro-genetic processes. Scarcely had mankind become independent of agricultural products through France's miracul- ous "nourishment pills," when a certain type of algae, growing in the Sahara and emitting fertile nitrates, rendered that expansive desert fecund. The Sahara thus evolves into the world's granary.

All cultivated Englishwomen-in On the way he had a short conver- Mr. France's fervid imagination- sation at the station in Paris, with have abandoned love as a channel Lord Crowe. Discussing the of procreation. Two hundred thou. League affairs with journal-sund British subjects are produced ista before leaving Geneva, the Bri-annually in the national "ovigen- tish Foreign Secretary said he had eration" institutions; these arti- been hoping to welcome Egypt as ficial humans are the cream of Bri- a new member in their midst. Un-itain's labouring class and civil ser- fortunately the Egyptian Govern-vice.

The Treaty With Egypt.

London. Yesterday. Sir Austen Chamberlain reach- ed London to-night from Geneva. |

ment had rejected the treaty which |

The U.S.

he and Sarwat Pasha had together! The United States it may be men- drafted, Nevertheless the pro- tioned parenthetically, which once posal that Britain had made, to re- threatened to eclipse Europe as a fer to a free decision of the League world power, has since succumbed Council at the end of ten years the to the domination of the negro race important question of the disposi- and of the Red Indians! A sensation has been caused in tion of British troops in Egypt re-

Since coal is no longer used as Leningrad and Moscow owing to mained on record as testimony to fuel, but merely for the production the O. G. P. U. arresting a number the sincerity of Britain's faith in of dyes and medicaments, the sor- of engineers, technicians and off-the League.-British Wireless Ser-did Ruhr district of Germany has cials at Donetz coal basin charge of counter-revolutionary ac- tivities and plots to destroy the mines.

on

avies.

Machine-Gun Parts,

become a smokeless, dustless and flower-bedecked paradise.

A national plebiscite, held in Geneva, Yesterday. Germany in 1950, had administer- The League Council have vir-jed a crushing defeat to the pro- Berlin, Yesterday. tually shelved the conundrum of posal. to adopt electro-genétic A telegram from Moscow states the machine gun parts to the Aus-method of human procreation. that six German engineers are tro-Hungarian frontier,

The Germans stuck to love and among the arrested at Donetz, in- A Committee of three, who have marriage. eluding three who were sent toj been appointed to unfold the tangl The author, Mr. France, imagines Russia by the General Electric Co.jed skein of evidence, informed the himself to be a second Jules Verne of Berlin, which states that they Council that the incident should be and is convinced that his pro- were very trustworthy and that elucidated to the fullest extent, and phecies will come true in the same they have no doubt that the charge, that it might, therefore, be neces-measure as those of his French will be proved unfounded; but it sary to send experts to the scene predecessor. So that's that,-Unit- will probably be difficult to induce of the episode.

ed. Press.

other engineers to go to Russia to The committee promises to re- superintend the erection of machin-port to the council before June- ery supplied by the Company— Router.

Rykoff's Report.

In reporting to the Moscow NO SECRET TREATY. Soviet regarding the Donetz arrests,

were

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THE SOVIET AND JAPAN.

JAPAN STATEMENT

INDIANISATION.

ASSEMBLY MEMBERS LACK FAITH.

New Delhi, Yoaterday,

In the Assembly, Mr. Lajpatrai and Mr. Srinavasaiyengar declared that they had no faith in 'the Bri- tish Government with regard to the

3. Rykoff stated that # dozen {counter-revolutionary and technical experts had been able systemati cally to disorganise industry in the district. He was reluctant to ad- mit that German and British com- mercial Arms

While emphasising that the Indian Army scheme. It was nut therein, but it was established rumour to the effect that the that certain foreign firms directly Russo-Japanese secret treaty is an insurance of peace but an in- participated in the plot.

entirely groundless, the Premier, Mr. Mackworth Young, Secre- speaking to Pressmen, observed

tary of the Army, Department, said that the Soviet and Japan had the fighting units regarded it as The German ambassador nt

greater need than ever of closer impractical to put British soldiers Moscow has requested the Soviet economic co-operation. He ex-in India under the

command of Government fully to explain the pressed the hope that the two Indian officers-Reuter. reasons of arrest.-Reuter.

countries would soon be able to conclude a treaty of commerce and

Berlin, Yesterday.

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Alleged Activities.

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navigation for the maintenance of · $43 DIVIDEND. Proper. economic relations.

At the same interview, the Pre-

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The "China Mail" is officially in-

Referring to the rumour that the industry by flooding the beat mines Soviet Embassy had supplied funds formed that the General Managers destroying the machinery, and to the Farm Labour Party in the and Consulting Committee of the organising sabotage strikes etc recent elections, Baron Tanaka Hong Kong Fire Insurance Car The plotters were backed and paid stated that the Soviet Ambassador Ltd. will recommend at the forth- by ex-miners and shareholders, had assured him that the allega- coming meeting of shareholders (to particularly German industrialists, tient was groundless, and he

be held on March 20), the payment out of the profits for the year 1926

Was

for the purpose of weakening fully prepared to accept M. Traya of a dividend of $48 per share Soviet defences and facilitating novky'a word-Reuter..

a military invasion. They aided

trade union officials and conse-

quently a special conference of exe-

cutives of the "red" unionsur

gently summoned at Moscow was

TO-DAY'S DOLLAR

empowered thoroughly to "purge": The clearing rate of the dollar, the miners union-Reuter. lon demand, to day was 2/0 8/16.

absorbing $344,000; to pass £25,000 to credit of Sterling Reserve, and $100,000 to credit of Silver Reserve and £b,287-7-5, to credit of Reindurance Fund; carrying forward $702,865.11 in respect of the year 1927.

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