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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1.

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.Soochow .Chenonceaux SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2. Europe via Negapatam (Letters and papers,

London, 1st Nov.)

MONDAY, DECEMBER U.S.A., Honolulu, Japen and Shanghai

Australia and Manila

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TUESDAY,

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8. President Cleveland .St. Albans .Trelawny .President Lincoln .Ning Hai

DECEMBER 4.

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HONG KONG. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1928.

IL DUCE AND THE RAILWAY CONFAB IN COSTS IN THE BONN

KELLOGG PACT

"SUBLIME"

"WHOLE WORLD CONTINUES TO ARM"

"INCLUDING USA.”

NANKING

SUN FO TO PRESIDE

MR. M.. H. YUNG REPRESENTING KWONG-SAM

CASE

HUGE SUMS

ESTIMATED AT BETWEEN £30,000 & £40,000

LASTED 16 DAYS

Sir Max Bonn, "the millionaire banker, recently was granted

decree nisi against his wife on the round of her misconduct with Mr.

Arthur Marcus Hanbury.

DELEGATES LEAVE CANTON

Rome, Yesterday. An important railway confer- Outspoken comment on Signorence, under the auspices of the Mussolini atatement on armaments National Government of China, is to devise means for the better is world-wide. It was contained in control and operation of the pre- [ letter congratulating General seni systems in China.

It was announced at the outset Mr. M. II. Yung of Canton Cavallero, ex-Under-Secretary for

(photo on page 7) left Hong Kong that the suit would be undefended, War on his elevation to the Peer- recently to represent the Canton and that Sir Ronald Waterhouse. Samahui Railway, the head of who had been cited as a co-respon- Mr. dent with Mr. Hanbury, would be The Duce declares that much re- which is Mr. George Bow.

Yung is the "No. 2."

dismissed from the case. mains to be done for the Army "In

With Mr. Yung was Mr. Wal Sir.Ronald Waterhouse denied the view of the fact that despite the Po-lo, engineer of the Kwangtung allegations against him, but express- sublime Kellogg Pact, the whole section of the Canton-Hankow ed regret for the letters he had world, Including Mr. Kellogg's coun- Railway, also going to attend the written and the attention he had try, continues to arm itsel£"-Reu- conference. A Mr. Lau, repre- paid to Lady Bonn. ter.

age.

FOR CHILE

DESTROYERS BEING BUILT IN 'BRITAIN

BRITISH WORKMANSHIP

London, Yesterday.

The "Aldea," the last of the six destroyers ordered by the Chilean' Government from Thornycrofts, the well known shipbuilders, was launched on Southampton Water

| yesterday.

Ae the subsequent luncheon Ad- miral Mering of the Chilean naval commission, whose wife named the vessel, paid a high tribute to British workmanship as exemplified in the manner in which the con- tract had been carried out.

The first of the six destroyers, "Serrano," is now almost ready to proceed to Chile and her officers and crew were present at ́yester- day's launch.

A telegram of good wishes was received from the officers and crew! of another of the six destroyers, {"Riquelme," now undergoing trials

on the Clyde-British Wireless,

Service.

FOR RADIUM

£50,000 TO LONDON HOSPITALS FROM SIR. OTTO BEIT

London, Yesterday.

It is estimated that the total costs of the petitions amount to between £30,000 and £40,000. "

The preliminary expenses alone totalled thousands of pounds. Apart from that, the case cost about £1,000 a day, plus counsels' and solicitors fees.

Figures mentioned have been: Counsels' retainers, $5,000; re- freshers, £1,000 a day; witnesses, £100 per day; witnesses' travelling expenses, £2,000, shorthand notes, solleltors and clerks, £110 per day.

The hearing of the petition! brought by Lady Bona against her husband, which was dismissed, last- ed sixteen days.

BY AIR

MANY MORE WOMEN THAN MEN

14,000 TRAVELLERS

All previous years' records for trans-Channel passenger flights have been broken this year by Imperial Airways, Ltd.

Mr. Sun Fo, to preside at the Chinese railway confer- ence. He is head of China's

Most surprising of all is that in railway administration,

the six months from April to senting the Canton-Kowloon Rail-September more than 14,000 women way (Chinese section) has also have crossed to and from the Con- tinent by air-that is for more gone North for the same purpose,

women than men. Hong Kong-Hankow?

During the whole of last year

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OF THE SUPERB

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The

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Kings

A film that will live for over in the hearts of all who see it !

FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY

At 2.30

SPECIAL TIMES & PRICES.

At 6.00 & 9.15

$1.50, $1,00, 60 cts. & 40 cts. $2.00, $1.50, 80 els & 60 cts.

THE KID HIMSELF AT HIS FINEST !

J.

JACKIE COOGAN

THE BUGLE CALL

With CLAIRE WINDSOR

A stirring tale of frontier perils and adventure! AT THE

WORLD

FINAL SHOWINGS

TO-DAY.

Orchestra 5.15 & 9.20. Interpreter 2.30 & 7.17.

Mr. Sun Fo, son of the late Dr. Government's Railways, in Sun Yat-sen, and now head of the 26,865 passengers were carried in

the the cross-Channel air liners, but A LAUGHING story of a how a tangled love nest weathered Ministry of Communications at during the last six months 27,446a spicy storm of matrimonial squabbles!

For | Nanking, is to preside.."

have made the air crossing.

It was announced in the local weeks on end 11 Imperial Airways: Sir Otto Beit has offered £50,000 vernacular, papers that Mr. Sun aeroplanes alone. excluding Dutch to. King Edward's Hospital fand Fo has a scheme for raising and German machines, were leaving for London for the purchase of, $30,000,000 to complete the miss-Croydon every day, and more than radium for use in hospitals. In ac-ing link in the middle of the rail- 2,000 passengers a week were being cepting the gift, officials of the fund way between Canton and Hankow.carried. Altogether 3,800,000 miles state that it will bring immediate He is quoted as having predicted have been flown without a fatal relief to numerous patients who that the work will be completed in accident, now have to wait their turn to share a year if there is no hindrance. Never before has woman's love the benefits of the limited supply years' experience of North China ture been so clearly shown. Hun- Mr. M. H. Yung has about 30 for something new and for adven-

Sir Otto Belt, who has large busi-with the Canton-Hankow Line for the week-end to do their shopping.

railways to his credit and was dreds flew to Paris for the day or ness interests in South Africa, has 10 years. He is an engineer by given much financial assistance to scientific research. Last May he contributed £10,000 to the British Red Cross Society to help establish

of radium now available.

profession and is highly respected in that profession.

The Whole. List The following is a list of rail- a clinic for the treatment of rheu-ways in China, under three cate matic diseases. He followed this gories, with approximate lengths with £3,474 to complete the £40,000 of the including branch lines:- required for this purpose.-British

STOPPED TO PHONE Tientsin-Pukow

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Wireless Service.

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President Harrison. DECEMBER

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Kweiyang Luchow Hozan Caravellas DECEMBER

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Letters only 6 p.m. .......... President Lincoln

TUESDAY, DECEMBER

President Lincoln

Salgon, *Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, E. & S. Africa, Aden, Egypt and Europe via Marseillea -due Marseilles, 4th Jan., 1929. K.P.O. Registration 10 a.m. Let- fors 1 p.m. G.P.O. Registration 12.45 p.m. Letters 1.80 p.m. Swatow, Amoy and Foochow ** Amoy

Andre Lebon Hai Ching

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·President Cleveland Hopsang DECEMBER 5.

Kluklang Hupeh

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The man who spent £285 on an Tackow-Chinghua Atlantic telephone call the other day Lung-Hai' without turning a hair has been Chuchow-Pinghsjang (being surpassed in nonchalance.

a connection of northern section of Hankow-Can- ton line) Canton Kowloon (Chinese

section). Changchow-Amoy Saupfngkai Canton-Hankow "tung" section) Canton-Hankow section).... Canton-Sanshul Tsinantu-Tsingtao

A young American visitor went [down to the hair-dressing saloon in 2 West End hotel (days a London paper to hand) and ex- plained that he had just booked a call to Philadelphia, and had given Instructions for it to be transferred to the telephone by the barber's chair.

Philadelphia came through during

a shampoo, and the young man bad a "satisfactory 8,000 mile talk from where he sat then on with the Bbampoo.

London, Yesterday-Sir Hugh and Lady Clifford have left Eng land to return to the Straite aboard the Moren. Their health in completely restored. Reater

London—Sir John Muarry, hond of the well-known publishing house of John Murray," and himself, a writer and editor, died this morning at the age of 77.-Reuter.

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MORBID FEAR

MAN'S SUICIDE AFTER READ-

ING MEDICAL BOOK

Obsessed with the idea that ho was suffering from an incurable) disease Thomas Lewis Parrish, aged 65, a fruit salesman, of Tuscan- street, Bethnal Green, hanged him- self at his home.

At the inquest it was stated that he had been reading a medical book and came to the conclusion that he had symptoms of the disease. This had caused him, to become morbid...

A doctor who was called after death said, the man was suffering from a condition which would have responded to treatment."

Recording a verdict of Suicide 8911⁄2 While of Unsound Mind, the coron- er said that had Parrish gone to a doctor kis fears would have been dispelled.

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“CHIEF MAQUILLA”

Seattle, Yesterday. The Japaneso steamer “Yeogen

Mara fa reported to have reached

86 the Chief Maquilla." The Intter 63% will probably be towed Into "Dutch 26% Harbour, Alaska.

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