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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1928.

BIG U. S. RAIL PROJECT

COST $100,000,000 * ELECTRIFYING 1,300 MILES OF RAILROAD

SEVEN YEARS' JOB

New York, Yesterday. The Pennsylvania Railroad in-

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New York and

IN THE NAME OF WESLEY

LONDON CHAPEL

TRIBUTES TO FOUNDER OF PRACTICAL RELIGION:

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PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

AN AMERICAN SCANDAL

SERIOUS CHARGE

DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND AN OIL PROMOTER

$10,000 BRIBE

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A REVENUE OFFICER'S MR. CHURCHILL AND

“HIS UNION

COLLISION

SUES FOR DAMAGES NEW DEVELOPMENT

weeks

FELLOW BRICKLAYERS. DIS- PLEASED WITH HIS ADMISSION

CHANCELLOR'S ATTITUDE

London, Yesterday.

It

ago

be-

Three

ALSO INDIAN CLERK WHO RODE PILLION

CLAIMS FOR $800 AND $1,000

Los Angeles, Yesterday.

collision at Arising out of a The District Attorney, As Keyes, about 6.15 p.m. near the Monument

at Happy Valley on Sept. 20, Re came known that Mr. Winston Chancellor of the "corrupt misconduct while in office.“ has been indicted on a charge of

It is alleged that Keyes took venue Officer H. J. Pearse, of the Churchill,

the Imports & Exports Department, and Exchequer, had accepted the Invi- 'tation made by the Mayor of Bat- $10,000 from Jacob Berman, promoter of the Julian Petroleum Mr. F. M. el Arculli, described as tersen, Divisional Secretary of Company, which failed last year a clerk of No. 153, Wong-nel-chong- Bricklayers Trade Union, to be- for a milion dollars, on the under-1

V. C. CAPTAIN FOR HONG KONG|1ST NORFOLKS PASS THROUGH

London, Yesterday. Half of the 1st Battalion of the Following the policy of showing

Tributes to the founder of Wes- the fag in all parts of the world, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Re- and also to repay calls on Hong Kong giment is due to arrive in Hong Kong

bishop of Canterbury, and the Prime by Japanese warships, three of the this afternoon to be quartered in tends to electrify 1,300 miles of leyanism, were paid by the Arch Minister at a meeting held under five new 10,000 tons county-class Shanshulpo hutment. The arrivals track between cruisers on the China Station are to are on the China Navigation Co.'s Wilmington at a cost of $100,000,- the presidency of the Lord Mayor of London in support of an appeal for visit Japanese waters, including the s.8. "Taming," from Shanghai.

funds to renovate Wesley's chapel flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir Regin- The Battalion was in the Shang-

It is estimated that it will take in the City-road The Archbishop ald Tyrwhitt, K.C.B., D.S.O., D.C.L. hai Area (Shanghai Defence Force)

H.M.S. "Kent," the flagship (Cap- of the North China Command but!

more than anyone to uplift the po-socistes should not be convicted.leged negligence against Mr. To the strength of his having laid ¡Yuk-sang, No. 6, Tai Yuen-street, bricks in the building of a house on tain J. Wolfe-Murray, D.S.D.) will, was sent some time ago to the north seven years to complete-Reuter's observed that John Wesley did standing that Berman and his as road, are claiming damages for al- come a member of that union o

pular religious life of England. Reuter's American Service.

his estate at Westerham.. leave Shanghai on Nov. 8. But she cast of Chihli province, near the American Service.

Mr. Baldwin said that Wesley

The negligence is attributed, in

The invitation was made more by will first go 200 miles up the estuary Manchurian frontler, when the No-

was a great Englishman, typical of

KIDNAPPING CASE the writs; to "defendant, or his way of a joke and accepted in the of the Yangtze River to vialt Nan- tionalists took Peking and the Man-

a great century. If any one single king, the capital of China. On Nov, churiana withdrew. The men were

man stood between England and 11 she sails for Japan. The ports mostly in the Kailan Mining Ad-

monstrous upheavals on the contin- "Rent" will call at are Kagoshima, 'ministration's zone at Tongshan and

ent it was John Wesley. Wesley's Mitsugi, Kusakabe, Shimidzu and, their stay was marked with an entire

supreme legacy to this country was absence of any untoward feeling. Yokohama.

the conception of practical religion H.M.S. "Suffolk" (Captain N. Lt-Col. J. P, Tredennick, D.S.O.,

for the ordinary man and women. O'Neill) leaves Wei-hai-wel (in, 0.B.E., the officer commanding, waB

British Wireless Service. North China) on Nov. 9. Her itin- host at an official luncheon to Gen- erary includes Nagasaki, Beppu, eral Pei Chung-hal (commanding the Takamatsu, Kobe, Shimidzu and Nationalist Expedition) before his aviation is foreshadowed by a

Yokohama.

H.M.S. "Berwick" (Captain E. G. Robinson, V.C., O.B.E.) Bails from

V. C. FOR HONG KONG

A Naval holder of the Victoria Cross has arrived on the China Station and will be here on Dec.

12.

He is Captain Eric Gascoigne Robinson, V.C., O.B.E., R.N., who has relieved Captain R. S. Wykes- Sneyd, D.S.O., in command of Captain Robinson was promoted to his present rank on Dec. 31, 1020. Captain Wykes-Snøyd is on his way Home.'

R.M.S. "Berwick.”

departure.

Three Regiments Here

RAIL AND AIR

HOME COMPANIES TO SEEK POWERS

Still

BETTER TRANSPORT ·

London, Yesterday. another development in

Įstatement that the railway com- panies will shortly apply to Parlin- The coming of the 1st Batt. Bedfs. ment for powers to carry on air and Herts. Regt. will make for a transport. Conferences are being third battalion of British infantry held to consider the matter. It is -again in Hong Kong (South China.

Command), since the transfer of the understood that companies wish to 2nd Batt. Scots Guarde to Shanghai speed up the delivery of produce for the London markets and for the a few months ago.

The Bedfordshire and Hertford- moment the question of passenger shires are known as the 16th Foot, service is not important,

A railway official said: "We have They are in the East Anglian area and their badge is the united red and powers over the railway, roads, white rose. The distinctions on the canals and the sea, and it is logical Colours are:-Namur 1695, Blen- that, should circumstances make it heim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, Malpla-desirable, we should also take the quet, Surinam, Chitral, South Africa air."

Wei-hat-wel on Nov. 3 to visit Tsingtao, Fuann, Karatsu, Miyajima, Osaka. Yokkaichi and Yokohama.

It will be seen that all three cruis- ers are to call at Yokohama, which is the port of and only an hour by elec. tric train from Tokyo, the historic capital of the Nippon Empire.

1900-22, and during the Great War An official of the London and Mona, Marne 1914, Ypres 1914-15 North-Eastern Railway said hia and '17, Loos, Somme 1916 and '18,

company would like an air exten- Arras, 1917-18, Cambrai 1917-18, sion from ports.-British Wireless Sambre, Suvia, Gaza. The Depot is

Service. at Bedford and the 2nd Battalion at Dover.

There is a holder of the V.C. in the Regiment, Brevet Lt.-Col. C. C. Foss. V.C., D.S.O.

The Officers

Officers, in the 1st Battalion are:- Lt. Col. J. P. Tredennick, D.S.O., O.B.E.,

H.M.S. "Titania," depot ship of, the 4th Submarine Flotilla (Cap Majors A. D. Gaye, J. Macready, tain J. B. Glencroas, D.3.0.) and D.S.O., J. R. Robertson, D.S.O. H.M. S/M. L15, L19, L27 and L33

Change of Flag

MUNICIPALITIES

FIGURES IN MINIATURE GENERAL ELECTION

LABOUR LEADING

►

PIONEER PICTURES

Once again the "China Mall" will present a fine page of pictures of local interest.To-morrow's art supplement will include the usual features, together with the "pioneer service" photos which are 80 keenly looked forward to,

There will be a composite group of all the Royal Engineers in Hong Kong, with their officers; photos of the USRC. v. Mr.

Sewell's team at lawn tennis;

servant or agent," in driving public same spirit.

motor-car No. 170, owned by de- fendant.

Some, members of the Brick- layers' Union, however, preferred to

The Executive Council of the Union tried to maintain that Mr. Churchill's admission to the Union

YOUNG MARRIED CHINESE WOMAN CHARGED

Mr. Pearse's claim is for 1800, regard the matter seriously and de- TAIPO INCIDENT

clared that public contempt and made up as

follows:-...

ridicule had been brought upon the organisation. Appearing on remand, evidence Value of his motor-cycle; No. 148, which was "completely was this morning heard against a

wrecked and is now useless" $500 young married Chinese, woman, at Hospital expenses and medt- the Kowloon Magistracy, who was charged before Mr. W. Schofield Loss of use of motor-cycle with kidnapping a small Chinese General damages boy, aged 7 years, from his parenta residing at No. 581 Canton-road, on Oct. 25.

cine

16

was still a good joke but they have 50 eventually had to yield to protests."

The Executive officially announced

284

$800

Injuries Described.

Mr. F. M. el 'Arculli, who_states

It appeared that complainant went that he was riding pillion behind

to work as usual, on the morning of Mr. Pearse, makes his claim as Oct. 25, but at 12 noon her son, 11 follows

years old, came to the factory and Hospital expenses Bald that his little brother was miss- Massage expenses Ing. She at once left the factory Doctor's bill a rugby football XV from one of and went to look for the missing.lad. Loaa of employment H.M. ships; a photo of, the "Mel After a fruitless search, she went to General pain; suffering and injury to his finger and Lan-fang of H Kong" picher cousin's house, and, leaving the tures of the Travessa Cup, win

arm, ears, back (and leg.- ners and the start, and finish of

part of which is expected the event; and persons and. views

to be permanent of Kwanged taken by Dr. A. -Cannon of Hong Kong,

Be sure to get to-morrow's "China Mail" for its pictures, features, news and specials.

PORT MELBOURNE UNIONISTS STILL WRANGLING WITH VOLUNTEERS

London, Yesterday. London polled yesterday, in the

Melbourne, Yesterday. Forty trade unionist attacked Captain H. B. Dawes, M.C., W. E. miniature General Election which left Nagasaki yesterday for Nimrod Caldeback, E. S. C. Grune, D. R. occurs triennially to decide the volunteers who were boarding a for Port Melbourne and seven vo Sound to pick up L3, prior to re-Thomaa, O.B.E., M.C. ((Adjutant). constitution of 28 Borough Coun- train at Flinders Street Station

D. M. Crowe, M.C., J. C. Preston, cils. turning here on Nov. 9.

M.B.E., C. M. Atkinson,

The returns in many cases were lunteers were flung from the train Lieutenants F. Spicer, M.D.E., received after midnight, but votes on to the lips, while others were After their cruise, "Kent," "Suf- M.C., H. A. R. Puttee, G. R. Steel, were not counted in others until to-floored and kicked and pushed from folk" and "Berwick" will come south J. R. H. Ellery, C. A. Dixon, R. day.

So far Labour-Socialists have to Hong Kong, being due here on White-Cooper, P. O. B. Sherwood, Dec. 12. The change of flag (when D. F. Yate-Lee, F. W. Senior, D. S. won a small number of seats at

the expense of Municipal Reform Vice-Admiral A. K. Waistell, C.B., W. Johnson, J. L. Altchison, succeeds Str Reginald Tyrwhitt ag 2nd Lieutenants W. Rickman, H. ere generally representing the Con- .Commander-in-Chief, China) will, Norcock, G. W. C. Mayes, D. M. servative and Liberal alliance. very likely be made hore. Then Finny, E. D. C. Gunning.

Polling also took place in over 300

Wales where one-third of the Municipal Council are elected an-

"Kent" will go on a southern cruise,! Quarter-Master, Llaut L Flint, cities and boroughs in England and leaving Hong Kong on Dec. 19 and M.C. returning about Jan. 21, 1929.

Drafts for Hong Kong H.M.S. "Hermes," the aircraft Another troopship is due to arrive nually.

Here Labour won much more earrier which only recently return in Hong Kong this afternoon. This ed from the North, is due to leave is the "Somersetshire," which is substantially than in London, the Hong Kong again on Nov. 26, also on bringing drafts for the 2nd Batt. latest figures showing gains and a southern cruise, visiting Manila King's Own Scottish Borderers and losses. for Labour of 119 and 18, Conservatives and (in the Philippines) and Kudat (in the Royal Artillery, also a number respectively, Borneo). "Hermes" is expected of officers, and the 1st. Battalion Liberals 24 gains and 95 losses, In- back on Dec. 17.

the Norfolk Regiment, on passage dependents. 10 gains and 40 losses from Egypt to Shanghai, to join theReuter. North China Command., St

Reliefs Coming Out H.M.S. "Marazion," a sloop (Lt.-

Comdr. A. L. Noakes) is arriving this afternoon. H.M.S: "Sirddr" (of the 8th Destroyer Flotilla), after

"GRAFT"

rushing to "atand by the "Kwang- SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST,

se," arrived here this morning.

H.M.S. "Carcord," one of the

smaller cruisers, Is leaving Ports- mouth on Nov. 17 with reliefs for

PHILADELPHIA POLICE

Philadelphia, Yesterday. Vigorous steps are being taken

the China Station. Her passage out as a result of the investigation is expected to be as follows which is belog conducted by Portsmouth, leave Nov. 17; Gibral grand jury into questions of tar, arrive Nov. 28, leave Nov. 24"wholesale police graft and cor- ruption" In Philadelphia, following

Malta, arrive Nov. 28, leave Dec. 2; the discovery that numbers of Port Said, arrive Dec. 5, leave Dec. policemen were associated with 7: Aden, arrive Dec. 12, leave Dec. illicit liquor dens. The Mayor has 14; Colombo, arrive Dec. 21, leave ordered every policeman-to-be Dec. 26; Singapore, arrive Dec. 81, shifted to a different beat. leave Jan. 8 Hong Kong, arrive The latest evidence has disclosed Jan. 9.

that beavy bribes have been paid

RAF. FLIERS

to prevent police raids on lottery houses.

Warrants" have been issued for LEAVING SINGAPORE ON A the arrest of William B. Smith,

NEW TOUR

HONG KONG INCLUDED

Singapore,Yesterday,

member of the Pennsylvania Legis- lature and Clerk of the Council, who is charged with operating a clearing house lotter and also for the arrest of a numb men on a charge

The four Royal" Air Force flying gamblers,

bonts, which recently arrived from nesses, mostly né England via Australia, have left

for Kuching from which place

will proceed to Labi

pines and Hong

the Phillp

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vis Indo-China and Slam-Rauter

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Jacks

€ 150

50

STILL FINE

N.E. winds, moderate, fine, is

the forecast until noon -to-

morrow.

800. The anticyclone is central to 250 the east of Tokyo. A depression.

11-year-old boy behind, she and her cousin went to No. 5 Reclama tlon-street, which complainant had been told was the residence of de- fendant. Défendant was not! there, and was believed to be at Tai-He waives $750 to limit the

is shown to the NW of Vladivos

tock

Moderate monsoon may be

expected along, the

1,000

China and over the ChiL

$1,750

that Mr.

po. Complainant and her cousin claim to $1,000 and thus bring it to-day its decision went there and saw defendant and within the jurisdiction of the Sum-Churchill was not eligible for mem- borship of the Union, as he did not mary Court. her husband.

When the case came on for the intend to work as a bricklayer. Complainant asked for her son to be given back to her. The man Im-first time this morning, Mr. C. A. S.¡Technically, he was not a member, plored her not to make a report to Russ appeared for both plaintiffs, because his admission form had not the police, as it would disgrace his and Mr. T. G. Bennett for the de- been properly completed, his period

fendant.

fat the trade having been omitted On Mr. Bennett's application, and his proposal of admifasion not Mr. Justice Jacks (Puiane Judge) having been seconded. ordered an adjournment of a week Mr. Churchill, on the other hand, and directed Mr. Rues to supply refused to accept this decision, Mr. Bennett with particulars of the which is tantamount to his ex- "negligent driving" alleged to de- pulelon from the Union. He is re- ¡fendant.

name.*.

Case proceeding,

W. L. COURTNEY

DEATH OF WELL-KNOWN LITERARY MAN

London, Yesterday.

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The death is announced. of Wil- the platform. The fight continued during the journey and was carried ilam Leonard Courtney, M. A., on on the platform at Fort Mel- LL.D., St. Andrews, at the age of bourne 78.

Hundreds 6 stevedores attacked other volunteers at the dockside and threw one into the sea, while a vo- lunteer driving a lorry was hit by a stone and badly injured. Reuter.

THE SCOTS GUARDS

London, Yesterday..

Mr. Courtney was at the time of his death a Fellow of New College, Oxford, and during his long life was prominently connected with Journalism and scholastic life. He

U.S. PRESIDENCY

"DIRTIEST CAMPAIGN IN NATION'S HISTORY"

CLOSING SPEECHES

New York, Yesterday.

was well known economist.. The "dirtiest campaign in the

ported to have declared that he does not see how he could do so without endangering the position of other members of the Union who, having been duly accepted as mem- bers by responsible authorities, ought to have an assurance that they cannot be turned out for political reasona. British Wireless Service.

M. ALBERT THOMAS

LEAVES FOR THE FAR EAST

In 1894 he was appointed editor history of the nation" is the des; DISTINGUISHED FRENCHMAN of the "Fortnightly Review and cription by Senator Glass of was later on the editorial staff of Virginia of the presidential com- the "Dally Telegraph." He was a paign in which personalities and director of the well-known publish-

The Scots Guards leave China early in the New Year and go to Chelsea to replace for public. · Ltd. duties in London the Welsh Guards; who are going to Egypt.

-Reuter.

Genova, Yesterday. M. Albert Thomas, Director of ing firm, Messrs. Chapman and Hall, bigotries have been conspicuous.

The number of lies circulated by the International Labour Office, - Irresponsible agents of both

accompanied by Mr. Phelan, head For many years Mr. Courtney parties seems never-ending. Gev of the diplomatic division of the was treasurer of the Oxford ernor Smith has been obliged Labour Office, has left for the Far University Boat Club-Reuter.

to reply publicly. to the whispered East.

charges" that he is a drunkard and Mr. Avenol, the Assistant Secre a subservient tool of the Catholic tary General of the League, In Church while Mr. Hoover has been shortly going to Nanking on accused of being pro-British, which special mission at the invitation of is a heinous crime in the eyes of the Nanking Government. Reuter. the Irish and German elements. He

CHINA'S "FIRST LADY”

had to get the United States Tron- sury to confirm that he was not an Income Tax defaulter, as some of

Nanking, Yesterday, bis opponents had asserted..

Meanwhile, Republican orators The National Government has insist that neither prohibition nor appointed Mrs. Chiang Kai-shek, the religious question is the issue, who is a sister of Madame Sun of the campaign, and that the chief Yat-sen, and Mr. T. V. Boong, n factor that will sway the votes is member of the committee of the the prosperity of America under Legislative "Yuan". Reuter. the Republican regime.

A

Gov. Smith and Immigrants Governor Smith, addressing for

eign pressmen, emphatically denied nation on the eve of the election, the Republican charge that he when the former will broadensta favoured an unlimited flow of speech from his home in California, immigrants. He explained that he but the last word will go to the Da did not mind whether people were mocrats, as Smith will follow with n able to read or write, if they came broadcast appeal from Albany, to the United States and reared up Among the host of apeakers yes." children and sent them to State terday evening was Smith's collea

Mra Franklin Roosevelt, schools and were willing to take gue, the oath of allegiance to the Con- whỏ In stitution Bach men ware just as the Jewa

id: succession addressed the Lower East Side:

good American-celtizens as those the Germans in Yorkville and the

fr Harlem who came from the longsunbrok

Hine of New England sheestry

came over with

Piz Senator.

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