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Poincare's Working Majority.
NEARLY 400. i Communists Drop Eleven Seats:
Chief Losers.
Paris, Yeaterday.
303 Deputies of the Chamber
Bremen's Crew Officially Cotton Conference At
Welcomed.
TREMENDOUS EXCITEMENT.
How New Yorkers Welcome Heroes From Over The Sea.
New York, Yesterday.
Manchester.
MACHINERY CLEANING. Employers And Employees Again
At Loggerheads.
London, Yesterday.
The "Bremen's crew, amid ex- The conference of the repre- have been re-elected, and 307 new tremely enthusiastic scenes re-sentatives of Cotton Employers candidates have been returned, ceived an official reception. They and Trade Unions at Manchester The defeated include M. Fallieres, were taken in the early morning on the proposals of the employers from their hotel on a triumphal to reduce wages and exclude the Minister of Labour.
tour around the harbour aboard time occupied in cleaning machin- Two Autonomists have been re-
a city tug.
ery from the forty-eight-hour- {turned for Alsace, including
Comdnt. Fitzmaurice operated week broke down finally this Doctor Ricklin, a late member of the tug's siren in acknowledging afternoon. the German Reichstag, who is in for the fliers the deafening. The next step rests with the prison at Colmar, awaiting trial at greetings from hundreds of boats
employers.-Reuter. the Upper Rhine Assizes on the crowding the river near the bat- charge of plotting against the in- tery.
AT GOVT. HOUSE.
AGRICULTURAL SHOW PRESENTATIONS.
In connection with the agricul- tural show at Sheungshui, in the
ternal safety of France by foment- Aeroplanes droned overhead ing a movement in favour of the and firefloats squirted vertical complete rupture of Alsace. Lor- streams from their hoses. raine with France.
A crowd of 50,000 lined the em- and 10,000 troops Of the twenty-one other Auto-bankment, nomists awaiting trial fourteen were drawn up on the broadway are also in prison. Seven are re-when the fliers landed. fugees, believed to be in Germany. They progressed through the The accused deny that their aim city amid a storm of paper grounds of Sir Robert Ho Tung's that streamers from telegraphic tape experimental farm on December 7 is separation: they declare
last, an interesting presentation they are campaigning solely machines.. against French centralisation and Captain Kohl and Comdnt, took place in the drawing room at Alsace of Fitzmaurice's wives and the lat-Government House this morning.
Amongst those who attended the the introduction in
ceremony were Lady Ho Tung, the Hon. Mr. J. Owen Hughes, Mr. J. A. Fraser, District Officer (North), Mr. J. Bullock of the Dairy Farm, isThe Rev. H. R. Wells, O.B.E., and several elders representating vari- ous villages in the New Territories.
French legislation contrary to local tradition.
The final results of the second; ballot show that the following have been elected:-
Conservatives
Republicans
2 98
Left Wing Republicand
46
Radicals
47.
Socialist Radicals
04
Socialist Republicans
38
Socialists
87
Communists
16
Two results are missing.
RAIN EXPECTED. ·
Southerly winds, moderate, generally cloudy, some rain, the official weather forecast until noon to-morrow.
The Yangtze depression is approaching 5.W. Japan. A de- pression remaina
over
Tong- king. An anticyclone has form- ed over N.E. China..
The trophies presented were two honorific tablets made of teakwood painted red with gold Chinese char- acters,
One of these tablets was donat ed by His Excellency the Governor for the beat exhibits by the various With only two results not yet'ter's even year-old daughter villages, and the second was pre- declared in the final ballot, the Patey arrived in the middle of the sented by the Hon. Mr. J. Owen elections show M. Poincaré to be reception and proceeded to the Hughes for the best Individual con- in a much stronger position in the City Hall. Patsy, after an affec-, tribution. This trophy has to be tionate embrace, was hardly able won three times in succession be- movement to the Right to restrain herself and broke, fore becoming the property of any away from her mother during the exhibitor.
H.E.'s Tablet. speeches and, climbing over two
New Chumber as a result of
strong Centre.
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THE BAND OF THE 2ND BATT., THE KING'S OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS
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The Left Cartel has lost twenty tables, was within reach of her The Governor's tablet was won seats and the Communists eleven.ather when she was caught and by the Kam Tein village, and His After two ballots the Conserva- held until the presentation of the Excellency presented it to the dis- tives have lost two scats, the medals was over.
trict which is near Sheungshui. Republicans win 41, the Left Wing, The Distinguished Flying Crews. The trophy was received in be Republicans win 10, and the
Washington, Yesterday, half of the villagers by Mr. Pang Radicals win 12.
AT THE The House of Representatives Lok-sam, the representative of The Socialist Radicals have lost have approved the Bill, which has Sheungshui. This trophy will be 20, the Socialist Republicans two, already passed the Senate, award-:hung in Mr. J. A. Fraser's house and the Communists eleven. The ing the Distinguished Flying at Taipo until the next exhibition, Socialist figures are unchanged. Cross to the "Bremen's" crew and which it was announced will be
M. Poincaré Triumphant. also to De Pinedo, the Italian held on January 5, 1929.
Costes and The tablet donated by the Hon. The elections have given M. Lebrix, the French fliers.-Reu- Mr. Owen Hughes was presented Poincaré a
working majority of ter's American Service.
flier, Paris, Later.
nearly 400. Another 50 may be
considered as doubtful supporters
on cracial divisions.
The Chamber has moved slightly
to the "Right."
and
to
EGYPT WARNED.
(Continued From Paga 1.)
The Communists are the chief month or a flue varying from two losers.-Reuter.
MORE RUSSIAN OFFICIALS CONDEMNED.
hundred pinstres to three thousand plastres, firstly, any official who makes use of his authority to dis-
ari
by His Excellency to Lady Ho Tung, who was its first winner.
Besides the inscriptions in large gold Chinese characters, the tablets bore the names of the donors, and had spaces on one side on which to carve the names of the winners. They were very attractive and desirable trophies. Next Year. After the presentation, the Han.i
His DEATH SENTENCES.solve or attempt to dissolve a pri- Mr. Owen Hughes handed to
vate or public meeting except in Excellency a draft copy of a letter | the two cases foreseen in Article which he had written in 1921 sug- Five and, secondly, whoever by gesting the organisation of force or throat prevents or dis-agricultural exhibition in the New perses a private or public meeting Territories, and said that he or attempts to commit any of these glad that his suggesion had Veli Ibraimoff, the ex-President acts, as well as any official who materialised.
of. renders himself guilty of one at the Executive Committee of the these infractions, apart from the Crimean Republic, and Mustafa, two cases foreseen in Article the ex-vice-president, have been sentenced to death by the High Five."--British Wireless Service.
Article Five stipulates that be a great success. -- Court of Simferopol on a charge delegate of the administration or It was announced that a meeting of having relations with a gang of police officer: "May only dissolve of the committee will take place in counter-revolutionary, bandita and
a meeting if a written demand to Mr. J. A. Fraser's house at Taipo murdering two police informers Reuter,
SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS.
Moscow, Yesterday.
AVIATION FEAT.
LADY BAILEY'S SPLENDID ACHIEVEMENT.
CROYDON TO THE CAPE.
London, Yesterday,
1
WAS
How
His Excellency then discussed with the gathering matters of in- tereat in the New Territories, and the agricultural show next year, expressing the hope that it would
do so is made to him by the comat 2 p.m. next Saturday.
mittee organising the meeting or
II
in cases of serious disorders. order is restored the meeting. may be resumed"
Article, Eight places the maxi- mum penalty for promoters of meetings leading to disorder at: one week's imprisonment or a fine of one hundred plastres.
KOWLOON RESIDENT.
MR. J. W. FAULKNER DEAD.
Mr. James William Faulkner, whose death is announced, first
It will thus be seen that the came to China in 1901. In 1903 he
Lady Bailey reached. Capetown agitatore causing disorder run joined the staf of Messre. Butter this morning, having completed risk of extremely light penalties field & Swire, with whom he work- with briliant success her "solo in comparison with those inflicted ed for some years, hou lang he flight" from London to the Cape in a Moth aeroplane. British Wire- police officers who attempt, in lesa Service.
pursuance of their duty, to vent such outbreaks. Be
Since agitatora frequ The beauty specialist is a moat abused human being. Lady foreign communities
their demonstratin Standing.
police authorit The Building Committee of St. viously restricte Stephen's College acknowledge with ance of their duti grateful thanks a donation of five to prevent anch guineas from Mr. C. Howard Tripp, law becomes, neskry a visitor passing through the of the British Gov Colony who was present at the remains responell stone-laying ceremony on Friday of the liver and
eign communities in
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in Newchwar
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