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THE HONG KONG DIRECTORY 1928 Issue

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HONG KONG, MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1928.

FROM CANADA TO GREECE'S RECENT

MEXICO.

A LONG "NON-STOP."

FORCED DOWN BY PETROL SHORTAGE,

NEARLY COMPLETED.

Mexico City, Yesterday.

The airmen Joaquin Pacheco

STRIKES.

A HITCH.

ANGLO-AMERICAN COPS ALLEGED ACTION.

CAPITAL AND LABOUR.

Athens, Yesterday, According to latest advices from

THE LANCASHIRE COTTON CRISIS.

NEW DEVELOPMENT.

BANKS INVOLVED TAKE DEFINITE ACTION.

IMPORTANT SUGGESTION,

London, Yesterday, The Manchester banks which and Fritableler, who took off from Salonika the Government's efforts are involved in the financial dif- ficulties of the Lancashire cotton Windsor (Ontario) on Saturday to bring about an agreement be industry are now taking definite landed here at 2.28 on the after tween the tobacco workers and em-action to assist in the reorganisa- noon of the 24th.

ployers has failed owing to the tion of the industry on a sound They had Intended a non-stop insistence of the Anglo-American basis. They have communicated flight (to Mexico City!) but were tobacco companies that the rela-with the spinning companies urg- forced down at Tampico owing to tions between labour and capital ing them carefully to consider the proposal of the Cotton Yarn should be defined once and for all. Association and form a Lanca- shortage of petrol-Reuter.

-Reuter.

shire Textile Corporation.-Reu- Iter.

U.S. PRESIDENCY.

NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION AT HOUSTON.

NINETY IN THE SHADE.

LARGE NUMBERS RETURNING

TO WORK.

OVERBOARD.

DISAPPEAR.

"

FOREIGN LEGIONARIES

Athens, Yesterday. Despite the breakdown in the negotiations of the employers and

London, Yesterday. tobacco workers at,Salonika such The French steamer "L'Atho's Houston, Texas, Yesterday. Unless the thermometer, which large numbers of men are return-Second" has arrived at Marselles is now an unvarying ninety in the ing to work that there is every rea-with foreign legionaries from Hal- shade, descends before June 26, son to expect a speedy end of the phong: Eight of the legionaries

strike. Reuter.

jumped over board at Port Said the 1,100 delegates from all over

and disappeared.--Reuter. the United States will have a par-

ticularly hot time when they AGEN. NOBILE SAVED. semble at the opening of the Na- tional Democratic Convention to choose a Presidential nominee.

The town has won the honour of accommodating the Convention through the. genial Jesse Jones, "the King of Houston," who plank. ed down a cheque for $200,000 at Washington last year.

A large "welcoming committee"

STILL NO TRACE OF AMUNDSEN.

RESCUE WORK.

OBITUARY.

U.S. SENATOR.

New York, Yesterday.

of

The death is announced Ronie, Yesterday. Senator Frank R. Gooding.-Reu- A third successful trip to Gen- ter American Service. eral Nobile was made by Captain Tornberg in three-engined

meeta every train and takes per- Swedish seaplane. He dropped STRANGE ROBBERY.

sonal charge of all incoming dele gates.

arma, accumulators and a collap- alble boat.

WOMEN'S JEWELLERY

STOLEN.

Governor Smith, of New York,

He explored part of the coast of and "Battling" Jim Reed, a Senator North-East Land on his return for from Missouri, are already consigns-of-the-group-of-three-who-A-robbery_took place at No. 18, ducting their rival campaigns from are crossing the ice, towards the Hill-road on Saturday afternoon, headquarters in the hotel lobby, "Braganza."

resulting in two women being

but the former's chances of selec- Captain Tornberg proposes to robbed of jewellery valued at about tion are almost as rosy as Hoover's attempt to rescue Nobile's group of $880.

at Kansas. Reuter's American six by means of an aeroplane fit- One of the women reported to

{Service.

STUNT AVIATRIX.

ON ATLANTIC FLIGHT.

for this.

ted with runners. The icefloe on the Police that on Saturday she which the party is stranded is was looking for an empty house,!

intended to rent. On drifting to a favourable position which she

arriving at the house she asked a The Commander of the "Citta di small boy to get the keys. The Milano" has suggested that he also boy returned with might co-operate in the searches Eventually, a man came and offer- for the group carried off with the ed to open the door for them. Two airship's hull.

a woman.

From

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New York, June 18. Thea Rasche, the German avíatrix, said to-night that she was flying to

The Government Committee ban Old Orchard, Maine, to-morrow, pre- awarded to Maddalena and his paratory to a trans-Atlantic hop. comrades, as the first finders It is understood that Mrs. James General Nobile, Lire 100,000. Stillman, wife of the banker, is

other men followed them when the 'door was oponed and stole their

The robbers jewellery. threatened them.....

also

of

TREE THIEF.

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New Plains, Stockholm, Yesterday.

Extended plans are being made A Chinese was fined $50 with the | her stunt flying, both in the United for a search for the French sea-alternative of six weeks' hard States and Europe. She has crash- plane with Amundsen and Gull-labour at the Kowloon Magistracy ed several times, but has always baud on board. escaped serious injury-A.P.

BANK OF ITALY.

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Rome, Yesterday.

The discount rate of the Bank of Italy has been reduced from 6 to 51⁄2 per cent.--Reuter.

INDECENCY..

this morning before Mr. Schofield,

It is officially stated from Rome for cutting down last night, with- that Major Penzo in the seaplane out the permission of the Forestry "Marina 1." left King's Bay on the and Botanical Department, a large morning of June 23 and searched tree in Kowloon City, above Kow- the West Coast of Spitzbergen. He loon City-road. found no trace of Amundsen and Guilbaud..

Sub-Inspector James stated that the Indian constable who made the arrest heard in the course of his Stockholm, Yesterday.

patrol the noise of sawing coming Captain Tornberg, head of the from the hillside and on Investigat

Arctic Expedition, has Ing; saw the defendant with a saw telegraphed to the Chief of the in his hand, and four large cuttings Ministry of Defence "Nobile saved from a nearby tree. Rescue work continues."

"Apparently, the tree is a very Rome, Yesterday. large one" said Sub-Inspector

Swedish

An official communique states James. The cuttings da shown, lu At the Central Magistracy, be- that the "Citta di Milano" is leav-court, were about a yard long, and fore Major C. Willson this morning King's Bay on June 24. for ing, a Chinese was charged with Virgo Bay, sixty miles further admitted the offence. indecency on Saturday at Yu Lim north, to keep in touch with the

Terrace,

Inspector M. Murphy, prosecut- Swedish rescue, expedition.

New flights over a wider feld

inches in diameter. The accused

Atherstone Parish Council bave

ing, told the Court that there were will be made, in conjunction with bought an ancient Inn, the Royal many girls passing that way during

the day. He was arrested by a the Swedish and Finnish airmen, Oak, for a public library. District Watchman.

who will search for the portion of Defendant admitted the charge the "Italia's crew which remained and was fined $50 or, in default, a with the airship. month's hard labour.

Newcastle Corporation has pass-

ed the plans for a £25,000 omnibus There is no further news of the station in the centre of the city. crew of the "Italia."· The sealer

“Braganza,” which is returning to parkin King's Bay with Norwegian aero bergen, but found

no trace of planes to search for Amundsen, is Amundsen and Guilband. held up by ice floes at North Cape.

Officially Confirmed.

Rome, Later.

Nobile Taken Off.

A MOSCOW PROTEST.

Moscow, Yesterday. The Feople's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs has lodged an em-

- Stockholm, Yesterday. It is officially stated that Nobile phatic protest with Mr. Cheng

A Swedish aeroplane has talon was rescued by a Swedish aero- Yen-chl, the Chinese Charge off Nobile from the Ice and brought plane and then transferred to an- d'Affaires here, against the recent him to land.

other Swedish machine and 'land. acarching of the Soviet Consulate The other members of his party ed on the Citta di Milano-Reuter. in Tientsin. Mr. Cheng Yan-chi are still the ice off Foyn Island, promised to notify the Nanking an on the on to be rescued. Copenhages, Yesterday. Government immediately-Reuter: Reuter::

Another Message boa

According to a massage. received No Trace Tet. O from the Italian Leration at Oslo, Rome/Yesterday. Noble and another member of the Mrs. Louisa Emily Church, of It is officially stated that Major party, were picked up by, a Fokker Millais-street, Camberwell, was Penzo, in the seaplane Marina One machine of the Swedish Belief drowned in the Grand Surrey left King's Bay on June 28 to Expedition. Both are injured. Canal, Camberwell.

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