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MOVEMENTS

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JOB FOR H.M.S. "SERAPIS"

The week-end has been a busy one ns regards movements of the Royal Navy and the Army.

tock, the 2nd Batt. Royal Scots. to

Lound for India on transfer.

EXECUTED

SOFT JOBS TEMPT ANTI-NIPPON BOYCOTT PICKETS TAKE SQUEEZE

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HONG KONG, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1928.

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PEKING OFFICIALS CHINA SIGNS RADIO REPUBLIC IN NAME-

DEAD BROKE

SENT HOME 2,000 EX-GOVERNMENTAL SER VANTS ON STREETS

NO WORK FOR THEM

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Peking.

CONTRACT

¡PLAN DEVELOPMENT

ONLY

STATE OF CHINA TITLE IS ONLY A PLEASANTRY OF KUOMINTANG

A PARTY AUTOCRACY

Peking,

ARMISTICE DAY CELEBRATIONS

IN LONDON

ENORMOUS CROWD AT THE CENOTAPH

ROYALTY PRESENT

· London, Yesterday.

attended the

An Indication of the proportion. Dismal weather

Arthur of Con-

PROJECT DESIGNED TO BREAK BRITISH CABLE MONOPOLY

Y INVOLVES $500,000 "IN FOOTSTEPS OF STRIKERS” "THEN BACK TO NANKING"

Shanghai, Nov. 6. After How the lure of soft jobs and

several postponements,

Two thousand former govern The long deadlock which blocked

of people who have an actual sharej Armistice Day celebrations in Lon- "squeeze" has brought about the Marshal Li Chal-sum (head of the doom of several Hong Kong loafers Canton Government), according to ment officials. "dend broke" after the development of radio communi- in the goverment of China under don, but this did not suffice to re- Kuomintang (Nationalist,duce the enormous crowd assembled H.M.'s troopship Dorsetshire" is related in an overnight report the latest report, is to return next months of unemployment, are being catlon between China, the United the

was Party), is given by official figures in the vicinity of the Cenotaph at weck.

shipped to their homes by charitable States and other countries on from Canton. arrived in port this morning,

broken to-day as a result of the stating that there are 1,812 mem-which the principal ceremonies were She A number of men who live on Says the "Kung Sheung Yat Po": organisations in Peking. return from North China.

These men worked for Chang Tso- contract between the Nationalist bers of the Kuomintang in Peking carried out by H.M. the King, wear- The population of Peking ising a Field Marshal's Service uni- their wits, one formerly a share--"Marshal Li Chai-sum and Gen- eral Chan Ming-shu (commanding

ition of America, whereby China will about one person in four hundred York and Prince Tientsin and now has on board the broker's clerk and another a docthe 11th Nationalist Army and Relin and other warlords who have Rovernment and the Radio Corporaplaced roughly at 800,000, so that form, and attended by the Duke of

"20-40 kilowatt has a share in the activities of the naught. 1st Batt. East Yorkshire Regiment, tor (Chinese practice), went up to habilitation Commissioner for the occupied Peking in the past. Many purchase to

His Majesty laid a wreath of with families, from Chiawangtao. Canton recently where they obtain-south of Kwangtang) have decided of them have worked for the Peking short wave oversens transmission party which rules China. It is pro-1

government steadily since 1912, wireless apparatus capable of estab-bable, that this proportion is Flanders poppies at the base ed appointments as officials of the to sail from Shanghai on Nov. 17

greater in Peking than in many A Nanking correspondent refers when the Republle was established,lishing direct communication be

tween Shanghal and San Francisco. other parts of the country, so that of the monument shortly before 11 a.m. The Duke of York followed from the garrisons at Tientsin and The ex-doctor's influence secured to Marshal Li's work in opening the But with the capital elsewhere,

There are also on board reliefs anti-Japan Boycott Society.

The contract was signed by Chang perhaps one person in five hundred the posts for himself and his offices of Chief of General Staff in Shanghai and a number of details, friends and they went out on search the Nationalist Army having oc- Peking has an work for them, and Ching-kiang, representing the Na-throughout China owes allegiance and then Mr. Baldwin and other

they and their families are destitute. tionalist government bureau of re-to the Kuomintang. flaunting cupied so much of his time. parties,neidentally,

construction, and A. B. Tyrrell and The Nanking leaders have decid-tives of the Dominions, Colonies and Chief of Staff

G. F. Shocklen, representing thejed to retain the title of the "Re- Marshal Li and General

The two minutes' silence was Radio Corporation of America and public of China," but this is mere solemnly observed and broken by the ure returning to Canton, the corres-

the Radio Corporation of the Philip-ly an euphonism, China is ruled Following complaints by mer-pondent adds, "to put into opera-

pines, the latter a subsidiary cor- by a party autocracy, the Central Last Peat." after which "O, God chants, the Police became active. tion the reduction of soldiers (in

poration. The amount involved in Executive Committee elects all the Our Help in Ages Past" was sung, Two of the Hong Kong men were ar- Kwantung) and to attend to the

the contract is approximately a jimportant-government officials, and followed by a brief service. rested and four other searchers centralisation of (Canton's) fin-

quarter of a million dollars gold, this Central Committee in turn is were also locked up. The ances in the National Government."

one-third of which was deposited in elected by the annual session of the llegation against them is that they When he has concluded his work in have "misconducted themselves like Cauton. Marahal Li will come back

a local bank to-day and the balance Kuomintang-United Press. the Strike pickets before them" and to Nunking to continue in office (as

payable upon the completion of the have been dishonest in taking bribes Chief of General Staff). During

station, which will require practi- smuggle Japanese goods Marshal Li's absence from Nan

cally a year. The project is planned king, General Chang Kuo-yuan, his

to break the British cable monopoly. -" Chicago

Tribune" correspon- deputy, will act as Chief of StafT.

dent. PULLING AHEAD

bound for Home, are joining here.

The Dorsetshire" is to come out their badges at ferries, etc. to ob- once more during the trooping gen-tain free privileges.

нол.

"Hermes" Goes Out H.M.S. "Serapia," of the 8th Destroyer Flotilla. men of which were called back on Saturday night, has, it is now learned. gone to the nssistance of the Chinese s.3. "Hsin Chi" which is ground on Tai Island.

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Merchants Complain

H.M.S. "Hermes" the aircraft carrier) and HLM.S. "Seraph" (also through. of the 8th Destroyer Flotilla) have The two Hong Kong men were

on exercises. gone out

1.M.S.shot on East parade ground on "Foxglove" (n sloop) returns to Saturday. Those who went up with harbour to-day on completion of them and failed to resist temptation exercises.

are now back in Hong Kong.

"YOUNG CHANG"

H.M.S."Sepay " (another des- troyer) arrived here from Shanghai

yesterday.

IS NOT GOING SOUTH YET AWHILE

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---United Press.

Chan

BRITON'S LITTLE "GROUSE" THAT MEANS NOTHING

TOO MUCH FEAR & DESPAIR

H.M.S. "Suffolk" (one of the new cruisers) arrived at Nagasaki, in Japan, yesterday, from Wei-hai- wei. On completion of her cruise in

"CHINESE NAVY UPSET Japanese waters, she will return to Shanghal and not accompany H.M.S.

Shanghai, Saturday. "Kent" (flagship of the common- Haing Shih-lien

on Friday in der-in-chief) and H.M.S." Borwick" formed Pressmen that he was pro to Hong Kong, as previously ar-ceeding to Nanking to settle the ranged. H.M.S. "Berwick" has Jehol problem, the question as te Englishmen are always grumb-

arrived at Fuson.

PRESIDENT-ELECT

BRAZIL INTERESTED IN MR. HOOVER'S TOUR

There seem to be too much fear and despair in Britain nowadaya. If we could only recapture the spirit of the old merchant adven- turers we could yet rule the world of commerce again. Sir Malcolm Robertson, British Ambassador to the Argentime.

are amazed

"SOME LIGHT RAIN

For Hong Kong and that part of the adjacent coast between Hainan and the Lamocks, the forecast till noon to-morrow is: N. E. winds, fresh; generally overcast, some light rain.

anti-

For the Formosa Channel, the forecast is:-N, E. winds, strong. At 10.45 a.m, to-day the Obser- reported: The vatory cyclone is central to the west of Vladivostok. Fresh to strong monsoon may be expected along the S. E. coast of China and over the N. China Sea.

MARINES

WITHDRAWALS FROM CHINA

IMPROVED CONDITIONS

PVT. F. M. SOARES

MEMORIAL UNVEILED IN KING'S PARK

··IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY

DANGEROUS SPOT

THREE MEN INJURED IN QUEEN'S-ROAD

Three

LORRY SWERVES

members of the Cabinet, representa-

services.

The Reveille" and the "National Anthem" closed the ceremony.

HM. the Queen, also the Queen of Spain and all the other British Royal ladies watched the proceedings. from the balcony over-looking the Cenotaph.

The proceedings were broadcast throughout the country for the first time.

Her Majesty's Message.

London; Saturday. Queen Mary has lasued a message

men were injured on Saturday in a motor accident at, to women throughout the Empire re calling the many "fearless and devot- Queen's-road, West, at a point

ed women" who served as nurses, and where a road leads up to the Gov-who lie in the war cemeteries. But ernment Civil Hospital. It may be they are not alone in having sacri- recalled that on the morning officed all that life has to offer. Oct. 31, a motor accident occur-Every man of bur million dead may An impressive ceremony was per-

have been dearer than anything on formed by His Excellency the Offi- red on the same spot, a pedestrian earth to some one woman,, and in cer Administering the Government, being pinned against the wall and every part of the Empire are women who go on living with wounds in (the Hon. W. T. Southern, CA.G.), killed, at the Club de Recreio, King's Park, At about 11.30 a.m. on Saturday I wish that my voice could reach their hearts which time cannot heal.. Kowloon, at noon yesterday when!

whether the Fengtien

Washington, Saturday. troops ling at themacives, but they gat The Government, has decided to he unvelled a memorial sun dial de motor forry, No. 1264, of the Hang each one with a word of loving sym- should withdraw from. Liaotung there just the same. Foreigners withdraw a and also to inform the Nationalist,

number of marines dicated to the memory of Private Lok Co., was travelling from west pathy."--Reuter. Government that Chang Hsueh British industry. The Federation quence of an improvement in con- dlesex Regiment, a member of the vehicle coming from the opposite at the efficiency of from the brigade in China, in conse-Francisco Maria Soares, of the Mid- to east when it met another mater

LOCKED HOUSE lang was unlikely to come south

of British Industries.

ditions but a complete unit of local Portuguese community and of direction. The former swervel to at present.

Has Britain lost her old spirit? marines will be kept at Tientsinthe Club, who was killed in action the wall and in consequence three It is reported that dissatisfac-Are her merchants lagging behind and Shanghai in readiness for ser- at Ypres on April 5, 1915. tion exists in the senior ranks of in the world's race for trade, vice in case of emergency-Reu- the Chinese as a result of the Gov-because they have no longer got ter's American Service. ernment cutting down the month the energy and vitality and enter- Much interest has been arousedly grant from half a million to prise of former days? by the announcement of Mr. quarter of a million dollars month-

COFFEE QUESTION

Rio de Janeiro, Yesterday

THE ERUPTION

A NEW MASCALI TO BE BUILT

MUSSOLINI'S, CAREER

Catania, Saturday.

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trade with California-Mr. Gerald Campbell, Britain's Consul

General at San Francisco.

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AIR-COOLED

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NEW COWLING FOR ENGINES

The memorial was erected on a

men were injured.

plot of ground in front of the main entrance to the Club, and was fring-

His Excellency was accompanied

SUICIDE'S LAST MESSAGE

WIDOW'S STORY

A

ed with a margin of red and green on December 4, 1914, on the troop-

How a Chester-square, S.W„, re- A very frank opinion was that | Hoover's projected tour, from which ly. Admirals Tu Shih-kwei and Lgiven by a man who has come back

vegetation into which large red ship "Delta" with the first contin sident arrived home from holiday the important "Jornal do Com- Ting-heing have convened a meet from America to urge British firms

poppies were interspersed. The gent as a Volunteer unit. Until to find his house locked and his whole was enclosed by a low white then he was , mercio" thinks that mutual benefiting for the purpose of discussing to

a member of the governess and housemaid waiting will accrue.

Soon outside, and the discovery later of The paper stresses the situation.-Reuter,

fence, and gave a very artistic touch, Hong Kong Volunteers, New York, Saturday. to the Club's fine lawns, The dial after his arrival at Chatham, he his caretaker's dead body, was des- the importance of the new Presid ent studying the coffee question on

The National Advisory Commit- which was of glazed black granite was found efficient enough for ac- cribed at Westminster, when Mr. "We suffered more from the tee for Aeronautics announce the was draped with a flag bearing the tive service and was posted to the Ingleby Oddie held an inquest on the spot, remarking that the elec-

shock of the war than we realised Invention of a toral campaign showed how inter-

new cowling for colours of the Club de Recreio and, 3rd Battalion Middlesex Regiment William Edward Clarke, aged 51, at the time," he said recently at radial air-cooled engines. ested he was in the matter. It is

The this was removed by His Excellency as a Private and to our great sor who committed suicide by inhaling the Department of Overseas Trade. cowling covers the entire engine, when unveiling the memorial. considered that direct observation

row was killed in action on April coal gas. of certain realities is certain great-

"It is bound to take us some little but lets in sufficient air to cool the

Guard of Honour

15, 1916.

The widow said that she parted time before we are on our feet cylinders. The air issues from the ly to influence a positive mind like Hoover's.

again.

rear of the cowling In a stream-

Like so many hundreds of thou-from her husband on account of his Originally, she The "Correlo d'Amanha” recalls

New Methods

line around the fuselage, thus cut by Major H. B. L. Dowbiggin, and sands, young Soares died & glori- drinking habits. that Mr. Hoover as Secretary of The promptest measures to miti

"I am always, boosting the Em-ting down air resistance. This was received by a Guard of Honour aus death in the very prime of life, sald, he was an accountant, but he Commerce made some positive de- gate the hardships caused by the pire out in San Francisco. When cowling has increased the speed of drawn from the Portuguese Co., of It was at the age of 23 years that lost his character," and afterwards clarations against coffee valorisa-Etna eruption have been initiated ever they say we're down and out a small army machine by 19 miles the Hong Kong Volunteers, with a "broth" of a Portuguese Hong took employment as a storekeeper. tion, and is of opinion that, unless by Signor Mussolini, who has I say they're wrong that the Em- an hour-Reuter's American Ser-General Salute whilst the Volunteer Kong boy passed to the Great Be and a clerk, finally becoming be relinquishes the idea, he will ordered, a start to be made in pire is going to be the biggest vice.

Band, which was also in attendance, yond on the Geld of Flanders. He member of the St. Martin's Church create a difficult position for the building 300 houses to form the thing ever seen....

played the National Anthem. Prac-was buried in Chester Farm Ceme-Hostel in Grosvenor-road. Heally all the members of the Legistery, Plot, 1, Bow C grave 18, twe Mr. John Francis, "warden of the Brazilian Government, which for the nucleus of a new Mascali immedi "I have come back to London to CINEMA FIRE

lative and Executive Councils, and miles south of Ypres.. first time will have to dissent atély the lava flow ceases.. find out if we have got, any in- from the White House's attitude.

Hitherto, the loas of land itiative left. It is no

use.us MANY CHILDREN BURNED TO the Consular Body were present, The newspaper "Hornal" foresees amounts to 200 acres. There are grousing.

DEATH

many of the latter attending in full the removal of "certain prejudices 4,300 refugees and the rellef sub-

dress. "The Amerloans have got Initia- |

After arising from the obsolete interprescriptions include 25,000 lire from tive and enormous resources,

the unveiling ceremony, We

Moscow, Nov. 11. tation of the Monroe doctrine."--the Pope..

have got enormous resources in the A cinema near Veronesh has been Mrs. Soares, mother of the late Mr. Reuter's American Service.

Empire, but they won't be any destroyed by fire, and many chil-F. M. Soares was presented to His As the lava reaches the plain it good' If we keep our pioneering dren were burnt to death. The ac- Excellency by Mr. J. M. da Rocha, is extending over a wider front and spirit locked up in a cupboard. tual number of casualties is un-President of the Club de Recreio.

President's Speech consequently slowing.

"British merchants don't like to known.-Reuter,

Addressing the large gathering prior to the unveiling ceremony, Mr. M. da Rocha, in a touching speech, sald:-—-—-—--

Your Excellencies, Ladies and one of the band of the glorious dead, mouth. Gentlemen.It may seem, rather Heads of firms must go out them-memorial service held over the spot late in the day for the Club de Portuguese member of the long found, it was stated, upon which

where the bodies of the "Anking" Recreio to discharge its obligation Kong Volunteers, who died that men Clarke had written

U.S. IMPORTS

SUGGESTED UPWARD REVISION OF DUTIES

An. Aviator's Report

It is hoped, therefore, to save the change their methods, but they will towns of Giarrre and Riposto:

have to do so if they want to cap- A CORRECTION ture the markets of the New World. American way.

"They must sell goods In thei In the exclusive pictures publisk

ed in Saturday's Pioneer Art Sup- "They must go in for publicity:plement of the "Chine Mall" of a

An airman flew over Etna and reported that there were no signa of a diminution of the eruption. ¡Reuter.

THE P. AND 0.

ELETRICALLY-DRIVEN SHIPS

London, Saturday.

selves to study the land."

J.

hostel, stated that Clarke's work in "To live in hearts we leave be-the kitchen was so satisfactory that he, was recommended for the post hind.

of caretaker at Chester square. "Is not to die."

Mr. G. W. Lambert, Clarke's em- Thus lives the memory of "Frank" ployer, sald that when he found he

in the hearts of all bis compatriots could not get in he went next door. and in the name of the Club de got out of an attic window, climbed Recrelo, I ask your Excellency to un- along a parapet, and so entered his veil this memorial which has been own house, When he reached the especially designed and constructed kitchen he found Clarke lying dead by Mr. Ferd. H. Mayer of Oakland. on the floor with his head on a California, in the form of a sundial, cushion and the end of a flexible. and is dedicated to the memory of tabe connected to the gas in his

Iancisco Maria Soares,

A piece of blotting-paper

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WEB

"It is a far far better thing that I do than I have ever done."

*Inte Thy hands, O God! Into Thy hands."

A verdict of suicide whille of un- sound mind was recorded..

A "DETERMINED EFFORT"

New York, Yesterday. It is reliably learned that certain prominent manufacturers wielding

The Federation of British In-piracy victims were thrown over to one of its members, whose name night live. A Bravé Man powerful influence in the Repub-

dustries rallied to the defence, board mention of the Chief En-is inscribed in the Roll of Honour;

His Excellency, prior to unveil- lican party councils are preparing

"It is unfair to talk about the old gineer was inadvertently omitted, by perpetuating his memory in the a determined effort in the coming

merchant adventurers," said man The Chief Officer, Chief Engineer shape of a memorial erected with- ing the sundial said: "To the Glory of God: In memory of a brave year to bring about an upward

official. revision, of duties on a number of Lord Kylsant in the course of a

"They went out to open and Chinese Quartermaster were in the Club grounds.

The delay is capable of explana-man, I have now the honour of un- tion. Until the Club had its own velling this memorial. The strings products, notably raw wool, cotton statement at Southampton said P fresh fields to find new mar- the three who lost their lives in

|kets among savages on virgin, the outrage. ZUM

Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, building in this beautiful, park, the which held the flag over the sundial Idea of a memorial for the late were then loosened and the flag was Secretary for War, gave a luncheon recently to General Sir A. Godley Francisco Maria Soares has bad to removed. be deferred, and we are gathered After the sounding of the Last and General Sir P. Chetwode, on Lynn, Mass., Saturday. got to compete with their rivals The death roll in the factory here to-day in the performance of Fost by the huglers who were in at their departure to take up the re- explosion (caused by naphtha a mournful duty, the unveiling of tendance, the memorial was blessed spective appointments of Gover "It is not an adventure. It is blaze) is now 18.--Reiter's Ameri- a modest memorial for a late mem- by his Lerdahip Bishop Valtorta. His nor of Gibraltar and Chief of the

ber who made the supreme sacri Excellency then laid a wreath on the General Staff, India. can Service. to the belief that the Hoover ad- It is understood that the Chinese-wrestling with hard facta.

fice in the World War.

memorial and this was followed by a demon There has been an enormous in- ministration would sympathetical-British Commission to settle the

In First Contingent

floral, contributions of exquisite de Mr. G. B: Bouwer, who set out to ambers of the Consular motor from Cairo to the Cape fr ly consider the proposal, but many compensation claims in connection crease in the efficiency of British Nice, Nov. 11-The death is an representatives of English houses with the Nanking incident of production. Observes from over-nounced of General Tripoff, the Our late friend together with signs by

mlantes over the specified time." do not share this view-Reuter's March, 1927 is holding its first seas are amazed at the high level Prime Minister of Russia in 1915. few of our compatriots joined up body and of the Portuguese com- 40 days arrived at Capetown 30 American Service.

lat Hong Kong and left the Colony mualty, It has reached.. meeting this week-Renter.

goods, footwear, linen and pottery, that an electrically-driven passen solls. Alternatively they suggest the ger ship is now being constructed adption of the American valua- on the Clyde for the P. and O. tion system, which will automatic- Company-Reuter, ally very severely handicap Euro-

'NANKING COMMISSION

poan exporters.

Some of the leading importers of

British goods, in interviews, incline

Nanking, Yesterday.

*Not an Adventure

"But the world is now parcelled

out into markets, and traders have

in the established markets.

NAPHTHA EXPLOSION

Reuter.