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HONG KONG, MONDAY, JULY 9, 1928.

BRITAIN'S SYSTEM OF RATING.

WHAT IS CLAIMED.

SPEECH BY CHANCELLOR OF EXCHEQUER.

HOPEFUL VIEWS.

London, Yesterday.

Speaking yesterday at Dudley,

ANOTHER BALKAN'S

TRAGEDY.

TWO SHOT DEAD.

LEADER AND FRIEND ASSASSINATED.

MURDERERS ESCAPE.

Sofia, Yesterday.

General Protogueroff, head of

FREEDOM OF THE PHILIPPINES.

NOT YET.

· ADMIRAL KITTELLE GIVES HIS VIEWS.

'U.S.A. INTEREST,

Shanghai, Yesterday. Admiral Kittelle, en route from

the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Macedonian Revolutionary Manila to his new post at San Mr. Winston Churchill, claimed Committee and a friend have been

that eventually and over a period shot dead by three unknown per- Diego, was quoted in the "Even- sons, who escaped-Reuter. -ing News" to-day as saying that "not within the life time of any- one living can Philippine indepen- dence become a reality."

of time the new system of rating)

The Dead General, now under consideration by Par-

Sofia, Yesterday. liament will bring about complete

Protogeterofen was 75 years harmony between the needs and resources of each district and in-old, and was a Bulgarian general

"Aside from the fact of un- who, by leading the loyal troops stead of some districts being un-after the war, dispersed the mu- readiness, which was clearly but able to provide for the necessary tinous section of the army march- kindly put by President Coolidge, services to maintain their popu-ing on the capital with the in-there is the greater question bear- lation in health and education, tention of pillaging.

ing upon the world's peace," the and having to throw themselves upon those who happen to be for trial after the

The Yugo-Slava claimed him admiral continued.

war, but he! "For the balance of the cen- their neighbours, there will be an disappeared and a large sum re- tury, and probably longer, the even distribution of burdens and mained placed upon his head. Pacific basin will be the scene of Macedonian leaders say that great human activity and develop- relinquished the ment. The United States is one of the greatest nations bordering the Pacific. Her interests there- on are equal to those of any other nation.

resources.

DONETZ TRIAL.

Referring to the way in which The had found money for the rat-recently he

leadership-Reuter. ing scheme and in particular to the petrol tax, which has been in- creased by fourpence per gallon, Mr. Churchill said he believed the tax would stimulate scientific de- velopment of British coal in the direction of pulverisation, which would enormously strengthen Bri- tain's commercial and industrial position.-British Wireless Ser-

vice.

TRAIN OUTRAGE, RUSSIANS, CHINESE KILLED

NEAR HARBIN.

INFLUENTIAL PROTEST FROM GERMANY.

THE SENTENCES.

Berlin, Saturday.

"By ownership of the Philip- pines the United States becomes also an insular power with western frontier close to the Asia- tic mainland.

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"One does not have to be a deep student of history to deduce the

A number of the leading mem-fact that from this Asiatic fron- bers of the Reichstag including tier the great world interest of Herr Loebe, President, Doctor the United States cannot and will Wirth, ex-Chancellor Paul Levi, not permit her to retreat."

Admiral Kittelle lauded the and an ex-Communist member, have signed a protest to the So-Filipinos and said that he was in- vict against the sentences of terested in their problems.

He said that he would like to the Donetz trial.

spend the remainder of his ser- They declare that the execu-vice, with the navy in the islands. tion of the death sentences will!

--A.P.. be contrary to humanity and that Bandits (presumably Chinese from the evidence submitted it is or Manchurian) attacked a pas-no wise. clear that the men are

ABOUT 80 TAKEN FOR RANSOM.

Harbin, Saturday.

mean

DOUBT ENTERTAINED AS TO HIS DEATH.

"NOT DEFINITE."

senger train 160 kilometres east guilty. On the contrary some of CAPT. LOEWENSTEIN. of Harbin on July 5.

them had an international repu- Casualties among the unfor- tation such as precluded the pos- tunate passengers were as fol-sibility of guilt. low:-

The protest particularly refers Killed: 4 Chinese, 2 Russians, to the case of the Sexagenarian Wounded: 2 Chinese, 5 Rus-Rabinovicz, who, it is asserted, is

sians.

known throughout the world as a About thirty others, mostly Labourite and for whom six Chinese, were carried off captive, years' imprisonment will

certain death.--Reuter. ostensibly for ransom-Reuter.

Harbin is in the north of Man-

JOB FOR BORAH. charia, a town of importance which has been "Russlanised" to some ex- tent. Many Russian refugees live there. Prior to its development so' a railway centre, a Chinese distil- lery was the only business of note. A Russian line runs eastward to Vladivostok on the coast and, west-

MAY BE SECRETARY OF STATE

IF HOOVER WINS.

New York, Saturday.

Brussels, July 7. The memorial service, which I had been arranged for Capt.

Loewenstein, has been postponed as: "his death has not been definitely established."

There are many rumours afort that Capt. Loewestein is alive. It is suggested that he never left Croydon, or that he disappeared in a motor-car when the plane land- The "Sun" learns from Washing-ed at Dunkirk. ward, to Siberia. and Europe ton that Senator Borah will be ap- popularly

known as the "yla

However, Capt. Loewestein's com. pointed Secretary of State in the panions in the plane and the pilot Siberia" route.

Presumably, the attack took place event of Mr. Hoover accuring the say they are prepared to swear he on the Russian railway between presidency. Reuter's Harbin and Vladivostok.

IMITATION TEA.

GOVERNMENT ACTION URGED IN INDIA.

GRAVE PROBLEM.

Service.

www

⚫ American

METRIC SYSTEM.

TO BE THE STANDARD IN CHINA.

was aboard, while French Customs officers were on the spot immediate- ly the plane landed at Dunkirk,- Reuter.

Expert Examination. The British Wireless report says that at the direction of the Air Ministry, the aeroplane from which Captain Loewenstein, the Belgian millionaire disappeared while flying

Shanghai, Saturday. The Kuo Min news agency (a Nationalist institution) states that the National from Croydon to Brussels, has been Calcutta, July 3. iat Government has Ze detained at Croydon and was, last According to Mr. J. Harpur, elded to adopt the metric system night, locked in the hangar pending Commissioner in India of the (the international standard of expert examination of the door of Indian Tea Cess Committee, the continued increase in the sale of measurement) as the standard the machine to test the theories ad-

throughout China-Reuter.

imitation tea in India is viewed with alarm by the tea trade and] public health authorities.

Dealers on the south-west coast of India and the Punjab have ex- ploited a common weed, which, by apecial treatment, is given the ap- pearance of genuine tea, and} which can be so skilfully blended as to deceive the average consum-

er.

vanced to account for his fall.

Captain Drew, pilot of the acro-

WHEAT FOR RUSSIA.plane characterised as ridiculous

TEN DUTCH VESSELS

CHARTERED..

-50,000 TONS.

Rotterdam, Saturday.

the rumours that Loewenstein either did not enter the aeroplane or left it secretly on reaching the French coast,

An official at Croydon also de-

clared last night that such reports were fantastic. Loewenstein was

Ministry officlalo,

This product is sold almost ex-tered for the transport of 50,000

Ten versels have now been char-seen to leave in the machine by Airi clusively to the illiterate classes, tons of wheat to Russia through at a low price.

It is estimated that at least Reuter.

Leningrad and Black Sea ports.~

| 10,000,000 lbs. are disposed of

annually.

Government action is urged to cope with this growing 'evil.

The importation of inferior quality teas from Java and China is another serious problem which Government will be called upon to tackle.

GREEK STRIKES,

ALL CALLED - OFF.

Athens, Saturday, The Labour Confedération is calling off the tobaccco workers

How boring, after all, these cen-strike and the other strikes to- turles, is the conversation. of the day.-Reuter." parrot--how vacuous the laugh off

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TO-DAY'S DOLLAR

I have always disliked' since I first The clearing rate of the dollar

heard of It-Mr. Robert Lond.

Later.

The memorial service has been arranged for the 11th Inst.-Reuter.

WAFD OPPOSITION.

AGAINST NEW EGYPTIAN CABINET.

London, Saturday. At a tea party of Wafd head- quarters the ex-premier, Nahas Pasha declared that the Wafd must do everything to oppose the new cabinet.

cais Bay Wasu, the President

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