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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1928.

SOVIET & ‘DANGEROUS TRIBUTE TO LORD HOME OFFICE ACTS

MEMBERS'

RESIGNATIONS

UGLANOV AMONG THOSE WHO

HAVE GONE

NEWS OF TROTZKY

Riga; Yesterday.

THOMSON

OFF TO AMERICA

PROMPTLY

...

BANNED BOOK

| MISS RADCLYFFE HALL'S “THE WELL OF LONELINESS”

TO REPRESENT THE AIR MINISTRY AT CONFERENCE

FORMER LABOUR MINISTER

PRINTED IN PARIS

London, Yesterday.

London, Oct. 28.' 'A' number of officials of the

The Air Ministry announces that The Home Secretary took' prompt Communist Party, who have been Lord Thomson sailed in the "Majes. action to-day to prevent the die- tribution and sale of Miss identified with what Stalin calla tie" to-day for the United States, Radclyffe Hail's banned novel "The "dangerous members of the right where he will represent the Air Well of Loneliness," following the wing, who urged the Communist

Party to alter its rural industrial Ministry at the International Con-announcement that copies sent from Paris and detained by the policy in order to improve the food ference on civil aeronautics, which Customs at Dover had been re- supplies, have resigned, including Uglanov, deputy member of the is to be held in Washington from leased.

It had been announced that the Political Bureau and one of the Doc. 12 to 14.

Dover had been in- Lord Thomson was Scretary for officials at most prominent leaders in the

Air in the Labour Goernment of structed by the Commissioners of Moscow Committee.

The party have appointed 1924 and his appointment is, there- Customs and Excise to release un- Molotov, Bauman and others to fill fore, a remarkable tribute to him as conditionally the whole of the con- the vacant places.

an authority on aeronautics. Reu-signment in their hands.

Exiles In Siberia

Berlin, Yesterday.

ter.

These copies had been printed in Paris by the Pegasus Press, which

is under the direction of an Eng←

A letter (which has not been THANKSGIVING DAY ish publisher. published in Russia, but published

HOLIDAY FOR AMERICAN CITIZENS

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In a Communist paper here) was! written by Radek to the Executive of the Russian Communist Party from Tomak pleading for the re-/CUSTOMS FOR GENERATIONS book) and the Commissioners of call of Trotzky, "whom malaria is |destroying."

Radek declares that other exilas in Siberia are seriously ill-Reu- ter.

AIR PIONEER

THE DEATH OF FRANK HEDGES BUTLER

MAN OF MANY PARTS

London, Yesterday. The death is announced of Mr. Frank Hedges Butler at the age of 78,--Reuter.

Mr. Butler was a man of wide Interests and.experiences; and at one time or another had visited almost every part of the world. He was A keen motorist and was the first treasurer of the Royal Automobile Club; and founder of the Royal Aero He was also interested in Club. ballooning, and had made a number of ascents in all over a hundred free balloon aacents, including the record longest distance in England, done alone, in 1902, and the record of the world for the longest cross-Chatti sea voyage from London to Caen ih Normandy in 1905. He

was

pioneer of the seroplane in 1908. Mr. Butler was also a talented vio- linist, and founder of the Lyric Club Orchestra and the Imperial Insti- tute Orchestral Society. He had written many books and articles upon aeronautics and travel.]

NEW MEASURE

LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL'S SECOND READING

LABOUR MOTION DEFEATED

London, Yesterday,

It was thought that a piquant the conflict had arisen between Home Secretary (who had object- of the ed to the English saue

Customs. I am informed that that' To-day is Thanksgiving Day, and aspect of the question has not been is observed by Amerkan citizens

fully considered.

in Hong Kong as one of their off- cial holidays.

In Same Position The Home Secretary, after con- sultation with his advisers, decld-

Locally there is organised func-ed that the copies printed abroad tion such as is held annually in were in the same position legally Shanghai with the Consul-Generals if they had been printed and for the United State: taking the Published in London.

Consequently, anyone selling the leading part.

book is subject to the same re- gulations.

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President Calvin Codidge has in- sued the following prodamation:-- acason again approaches when it has been the custom for

The

President Coolidge.

The Continental edition may be seized and destroyed by the police, acting under the authority of the Home Office; and its purveyors may be subjected to punishment.

It is anticipated that a full ofi-| cial statement on the result of the action taken to-day will be made later.

Public attention was first drawn' to the book (which deals with a form of sexual perversion) in an article by the editor of the "Sun- day Express."

Coples were sent to the Home Secretary, and at his request' the English publishers, Messrs. Jona- than Cape, ceased publication.-A correspondent.

FLIGHT DEPARTS

FOUR BOATS ON THE WAY TO TOURANE

"HOP" OF 590 MILES

The four flying boats under Group Captain Cave-Brown-Cave, R.A.F., forming the British Far East Flight, left Hong Kong this morning at half past six, on a "hop" of 590 miles to Tourane in Indo-Chins, en route back

generations to set apart a day of to Singapore.

They took off from Kowloon Bay, thanksgiving for the blessings which the Giver of all good and off Kai Tack aerodrome, in formation, perfect gifts has bestowed upon and were accompanied out, almost as us during the year. la most be- far as Macao, by one of the 'planes coming that we should do this, for stationed in Hong Kong. the goodness and mercy of God The departure was fixed originally votes to 165, the labour motion for which have followed us through for Monday, Nov. 26-the visitors the rejection of the Local Govern- the year deserve our grateful re having arrived on Sunday, Nov. 18- ment Bill which then passed its cognition

The House of Commons, after three days' debate, defeated, by 844

second reading.-Reuter.

NEW PLAY RECORD

£32,247 DEAL IN SEATS

and acknowledgment. but, was delayed by the presence of Through His Divine favour peace an intense typhoon about 400 miles | d tranquillity have reigned

south of Hong Kong. throughout the land; He has pro- tected our country. 18 a whole against pestilence and disaster and has directed us in the ways of Na- tional prosperity. Our felds have been abundantly productive; our Industries have flourished; our commerce has increased; wages

MARINE COURT

SEVERAL DELINQUENTS BE. FORE THE MAGISTRATE

“FUNNY FACE"

What is stated to be a record deal

At the Marine Court this morning, in seats has been made by the have been lucrative, and comfort libraries over "Funny Face" the and contentment have followed the Sit Hok, master of the motor schoon- undisturbed pursuit of honest toll. er "Kai Toka Mare" was, before musical play which, with Mr. Lealle As we have prospered in material Comdr. J. B. Newill, D.S.O.. R.N., Henson, Miss Adele and Mr. Fred things, so have we als grown and charged with certain infringements Astaire, came to the Princes expanded in thing! spiritual. of the barbour regulations and was Theatre, London, on November 8. Through divine Ingiration

we fined $25 on each of four charges Seats to the value of £82,247 have have enlarged our charities and with the alternative of a month's been bought up. “A

our missions; we have been imbu-fall with hard labour.

"I think I am right in saying ed with high ideals which" have| The mistress of a cargo boat, car] that this is a record for any play operated for the béleft of the rying 14 passengers contrary to the before its London productión,” Sir world and the promotion of the regulations of her licence, was fined Alfred Butt, who presents "Funny brotherhood of man through peace $14 and another mistress, charged Face."

and good will,

| under a similar offence, was fined $9. The piece had been seen in Liver- Wherefore, I, Calvin Coolidge, The master of a passenger boat pool and Birmingham and it is at President of the Unlid States, do was fined $10 for carrying dried present at Cardif

hereby set apart Thursday, the vegetables. The application for reserved seats twenty-ninth day of November for the London first night, were as a day of general thanksgiving "overwhelming in number."

and prayer, and I recommend that

Residents of Pevensey Bay are to on that day the people shall cease oppose the erection of an Eart from their daily work, and in their bourne District Council slaughter- homes and in their accustomed house at Pevensey, places of worship, devoutly gives

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PEKING SYNDICATE

Shanghai, Yesterday,

The Consul, Mr. Harold Forter, thanks to the Almighty for the New Orleans, Yesterday, Mr., has been appointed general man- many and great blusings they William Green has been unanim ager of the Peking Syndicate in have received, and sek Hla güld- ously re-elected President of the place of Mr. Kenrick, who is re-ance that they may deserve a con- American Federation of Labour tiring-Reuter?!

tinuance of His avoir, V

Reuters American Service.

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The

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