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SUNDAY,
HONG KONG, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1928.
“GRAF ZEPPELIN'S " -U. S. PRESIDENTIAL PASSING OF RUBBER
PROGRESS
REACHES GERMANY
',
MAKING A HERO OF THE STOWAWAY
LUCRATIVE OFFERS
Friedrichshafen, Yesterday. Tho "Graf Zeppelin," travelling fast with favouring winds, is ex pected here at lateat by 10 o'clock to-night.
The landing place has been invishly decorated.
ELECTION
A HUGE VOTE FINAL RESULT UNLIKELY TILL 7TH INSTANT
"MANY GUESSES"
ནཱ་
Washington, Yesterday.
The result of the Presidential
RESTRICTION
MERRY BROKERS
IRONICAL EPITAPH IN THE EXCHANGE
"WHO KILLED COCK ROBIN?"
London, Yesterday.. An ironical epitaph In "memory Election on the 6th inst, will not of old man restriction," draped in be definitely known until the after- crepe (rubber) was conspicuously. noon of the 7th at the earliest, in placed in the Rubber Exchange ad- view of the hugs vote expected, and joining a note which invited all in- the corresponding slow returns.terested to attend a "memorial ser- Many guesses will be made as vice" in the evening to celebrate to the final result, based on the the termination of restriction. - early figures from doubtful States, Meantime, the brokers' business which hold the balance of power, all day was punctuated by the sing- in the election, such as New Jer-, ing of a parody, beginning "We sey, New York, Pennsylvania, South killed Cock Robin, We, said the to arrange as to his passport, Carolina and Connecticut Their Dutch," copies of which were formalities. Two offers of employ results will be available on the printed and distributed this morn- ment are awaiting him, one from night of the 6th inst-Reuter's Ing. the famous Hagenbeck circus at American Service. Hamburg, the other from big stores
The atowaway. Clarence Terhune, will have little difficulty with the auhorities as the new German sport Ing spirit is impressed by his escape.
The American Consul has arrived
in Aix la Chapelle. Terhune has
1
Official Statement
The Colonial Office, in a state- ment, confirms the previous an-
been asked by the latter to name EUROPEAN'S CHASE nouncement of the removal of all
his own terms,
Over Franca
Another telegram states that the "Graf Zeppelin" was off the mouth of the River Gironde at 3.30 in the afternoon (Greenwich time).
The "Graf Zeppelin," which flew over Tours at 8.20 this evening, was apparently proceeding in the direc- tion of Blois and Paris. She is now not expected to arrive at Friedrich- shafen until the morning of Novem- ber 1.
New York, Yesterday. The "Graf Zeppelin" is carrying a ton of mails, in respect of which the German Postal Administration will be credited with £16,142 by the American Post Office.
Enterprising Stowaway
Berlin, Yesterday. The young stowaway on the "Graf Zeppelin" while aboard sold the newspaper rights of his story for a large sum.
250 Miles Off Ireland An earlier telegram frem Berlin stated that the "Graf Zeppelin" was at 5 a.m. (yesterday) 260 miles to the south-west of Ireland.
. Over Germany.
Berlin, Yesterday,
restrictions on the export of rub- ber from British Malaya and Coy- | lon on Nov. 1.-Reuter.
Restriction Goes
London, Yesterday. The Colonial Office issues the
(Continued from Page 1.):
Continuing, Mr. Murphy said that following a report of the robbery, the police mande Inquiries and secured a chopper which had been picked up outside the shop by one of the In-following:--
KEEPING FINE
N. E. winds, fresh, fine, is the forecast until noon to-morrow..
A large anticyclone central be tween Korea and Japan now dominates the map. Moderate to fresh monsoon may be expected along the S.E. coast of China and over the China Sea.
་་
The following was received from the Manila Observatory at 9.30 a.m. to-day?-----
Manila 31st 3.40 p.m. Cyclone or typhoon near or over the Bonia Island moving N.E. or E.NE.
"As already announced all re- strictions on the export of rubber from British Malaya and Caylon will be removed on November 1 British Wireless Service.
THE PONS AFFAIR
SEVERAL SENTENCED TO PENAL SERVITUDE
"KILL THE POLICE"
Safatese, Yesterday. Six of the arrested in connection with the Pons affair have been con- demned to imprisonment of between 6 and 80 days with alight fines. One received the benefit of the First Offenders' Act.
Police evidence showed that the accused called on the crowd to kill'
Prejudice
mates. Then, acting on information the police. received, a party of police raided the
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The Zeppelin has arrived over top floor of No. 198 Praya East, the The anti-clerical prejudice of the SINTH
Germany and has been sighted Waldshut and Baden at 3.30.
at, inmates of which were surprised by Radical Socialists has been 'aggra
At Destination Friedrichshafen, Yesterday. The "Graf Zeppelin has arrived. -Reuter.
THE "SPECTATOR"
CELEBRATES ITS HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY
London, Yesterday.
JAPAN'S “REDS"
SEVERAL SENTENCED TO PENAL SERVITUDE
the raiders, who entered by the vated by the Pons affair, and M. roof.
Herriot at the Cabinet meeting yea- Stole Pearls
terday is reported to have demanded M. The second male accused was the rejection of Article 71. found sleeping. In the rear cubicle. Ponesire and M. Briand opposed A search of this cubicle revealed a the demand. Later, President Dou- string of pearls concealed in an un- mergue conferred with M. Herriot, locked box. These were the pearls but no agreement appears to have stolen from Mr. Whitley's house. been reached.—Reuter., The first male accused was arrested In the front part of the foor, He. KING'S CONGRATULATIONS was also sleeping and was pointed
out to the police by the informer..
Both men were taken into cus- Representatives of politics, the tody. Consequent upon Information ¦ law, literature, medicine, journal-given to the police by the first man, iam, commerce and guests also from detectives, together with the two
A telegram from Osaka states the Dominions were present at a prisoners, visited No. 147, Wongnel- that the local court of Okayama took dinner at Claridge's given by Major chong-road. The female defendant the lead in sentencing Communists President McKinley John Astor in celebration of the put her head out of a window in re to-day, when five men were given
centenary of the "Spectator."
ply to a knock on the street door penal servitude, ranging from 2 to The front page of the menu was and spoke to the first male accused 5 years. Ten others were also found a reprint of the front page of the who asked her to bring down the guilty but were put on "probation" "Spectator's" frat number, while the back was a reprint of a 1928 page..
Woman and Revolver Major Astor read a telegram from
The woman withdrew from the H.M. the King congratulating, all window, and after about ten minutes. concerned on the occasion.
Mr. Stanley Baldwin, in his volver to the prisoner. The revol- came to the door and handed the re-
speech, described the "Spectator”, ás
Empress of Asla
5.
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handkerchief. She was also arrest
only four men. Its survival was a noble tribute to its innate British
Later, the irat male accused took the police to a Wanchal pawnshop
Shanghai, Yesterday.
in order to see if they would "show aigns of repentance." Reuter.
CAR FATALITY
DISTRESSING DEATH OF A CHINESE
stability. It had been a bond of where the red woollen blanket stolen when a Chinese was pinned against
union among all English speaking peoples-Reuter..
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
A tragic incident occurred yes- terday morning on Queen's-road West, near the Ko Shing Theatre,
the wall and instantly crushed to from No. 68, Shaukiwan-road, was death
* Bookbinders, L recovered. The wrist watch was The deceased, it appears, Was THE ~ CHINA MAIL,” Book recovered from a pawnshop in Yau-;
coming out of a public lavatory mati, also on the information of the when a motor car belonging to the
binders. No, Ba, Wyndham Street.. first man.
[Luèn Yick Motor Co. approached. Peking, Yesterday. Mr. Murphy aded that an identh The driver, sounded his horn but Mystery still surrounds the case fication parade was subsequently the turn of the wheel proved to of an officer in the Manchuria held at Central Police Station, but sudden, and the car akidded and Army travelling to Peking, alleg-without result, as the victims of the crashed into the wall at the spot edly to enter into negotiations, Shaukiwan road robbery failed to where the deceased was standing who was dragged off the train at pick out either of the men, wo The body was removed to the Lofs yesterday by Nationalist sol-]. «Mr. Lindsell remarked that there Mortuary and was later identified 10.15 a.m. diers and stripped naked before seemed to be no evidence against the by a man named Lo Wan, a brother 10.80 a.m.*** everyone. He was finally dragged second man, to an outhouse where he was de-
replied that there was tained t
1.80 p.m. 5 pm
6 pa
8:45am
w some evidané as both men made
It is feared that the incident will statements to the police when they impair the relations between the
National Government and Man chürleuter.
sand the
of the deceased.
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