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HIS MAJESTY'S MR. F. HUSSEY-FREKE HARVEST OF FRENCH ARMS FOR CANTON IN SLUMP ON NEW YORK “SIX MILES PER PERSIST

'HEALTH

“UPWARD GRÁDE" - "GRAVE✨ANXIETY” STATED TO - HAVE BEEN FELT

PULSE REMAINS STEADY

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A British official wireless message from London, dated Dec. 9, 8 p.m. states:-

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JUSTIFIED

THE SALT GABELLE

London, Yesterday,

SCANDALS

HONG KONG

HELD UP BY HITCH SOLDIERS ON TRANSFER FROM HAINAN ISLAND

UNUSUAL CARGO

Brought here for conveyance to Canton, a batch Implements of

EXCHANGE

BIG DROP

7

MINUTE"

SCHNEIDER CUP REPORTED DEPRECIATION OF TO BE FLOWN NEXT YEAR OVER

THE SOLENT $1,200,000,000

RADIOS BADLY HIT

THE ENTRANTS

tention to attempt to wrest the tro-

GLOOM

AT LUGANO

GERMAN DEMANDS HERR STRESEMANN WANTS "CLEAR - CUT STATEMENT

RHINELAND PROBĻEM ·

Lugano, Yesterday, Persistent gloomhab displaced the usual sunshine, and pessimists,

IN HIGH FINANCE HIS ACCEPTANCE AND SECURITY MORE ABOUT THE "GAZETTE

OF BONDHOLDERS

DU FRANC"

ENGLISH BANK'S BIG LO39. "SOME BETTER THAN NONE"

New York, Yesterday. Paris, Yesterday.

London, Yesterday..--- The newspapers give promin- With reference to the "Gazette

Ancatimated total depreciation It is understood that next year's Tence to the statement by Mr. F. du Franc" crash the arrest of its ar obviously belonging to the of about 1,200 millions sterling in Schneider Trophy race will he The bulletin issued at noon to Hussey-Froke justifying his con- pritcipal directors would seem to

the value of securities has been down over the Solent, and that a day--the 19th day of the King's ill-tinuance in office as Assoclate, be the first, fruits of a harvest of Kwangtung Government has been sustained during the last three days triangular course will be fixed.who are in the majority here, re- ness—was in the following terms: Chief Inspector -'in

held up owing to a hitch.

of last week in the big slump in France, the United States and gard the bad weather as an un-, the Salt Ad financial scandals in France: "His Majesty the King has had ministration of China, under the The director of a Strasbourg The British ss.. "Halvard" (Cap-Wall-street,, which was marked by Italy have all intimated their in-favourable omen presaging that the

frenzied selling. several hours sleep. Prolongation of changed conditions brought about financial concern has been arrest-

League Council, particularly the the fever is having the inevitable by the Nationalist Government, ed but the police refuse to divulge tain J. W. Shearer) arrived yester Nearly,,3,750,000 shares were phy from Britain.

day from Hollow, the port of Hai-dealt with yesterday-a record for Experts believe that the "big three" (Sir Austen Chamber- effect of procuring a certain men- Mr. Hussey-Freke points out details. sure of exhaustion. The pulse, that recently the Inspectorate has Count Maurice de Courville, des-

Saturday and the trading was of will he won at an average speed of lain, M. Briand and Herr Strese the most sensational character. 320.miles hourly by 'planes that will mann) will not be very successful howeyor, remains steady.".

been powerless to secure any part eribed as, the fonder of the Signed: Stanley Hewett, Dawson of the Salt revenue whatever; con- "Gazette du Erune" in 1925 has

The fall in Radio- Corporation attain velocity of at least six miles in clarifying the international poli-. of. Penn."

quently, he deemed it "preferable been accused of complicity in the

shares, which lost 125 points from per minute on the straight:"tical atmosphere, which A hopeful view. of the patient's to assent to new agreement which Hanau affair, but he has been pro-

420 which they stood was the be, British Wireless Service.

be- progress is now being taken by those promised something for handhold visionally allowed his liberty::

ginning of the alump. in close touch with the royal house- "ers, rather than attempt to carry on' A Syrian, named Middart, head hold, who state that is Majesty is under the old system which has of a certain bank in Paris, has definitely better than he was a week ceased to function.

been arrested on a charge of de- ago. It was, however, admitted in,

frauding an English banking con an authoritative statement, - made, The "Financial Times," in an, cern of £160,000,--Reuter,

last night that there editorial, points out that Mr.] public late have been periods of grave anxiety Hussey-Freke is a servant of the, during the week.

Chinese Government.

"Obduracy";

Important Statement.

The New System.

on his part would have benefitted | The statement was in the follow- neither the lenders nor Govern ing terms:

.

3 H.P. MOTOR

ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN STOLEN

COURT CASE

Describing the case as an inter- eating one, Mr. Hin-shing Lo

ments abroad.. No blame can at- The King has been on the 'up tach to him owing to the loss of ward grade to-day after a slightly control over the bondholders' Becur downward turn yesterday. Progress ity. His resignation would probe is being made, but it is necessarily ably have meant the abolition of slow and laborious. During last any measure of foreign super appeared for the defence, at the week there was great anxiety due to vision. The new system does, Kowloon Magistracy this morning. the fact that infection was raging anyhow offer bondholders an op in a case heard before Mr. E. W. through whole of system. Now the portunity-of-having their claims Hamilton in which a Chinese and h physicians are dealing with the met as long as the Government can woman were charged with the theft locallaed Infection in the lung. make its nuthority effective-what-of a 8 h.p. electric motor from the

the

time arme

the posi- ever we may think of as provoca-premises of a show room of the tion is atili one of diffi- tive an entry into international res Chipa Light and Power Co., Ltd., culty because the King *hos lalonships."-Reuter. been ill for nearly three weeks and

At

his recuperative powers are there- HONG KONG BLOW UP fore less strong than they were.

HIS CLIENT

During this long illness the King's SOLICITOR'S SUGGESTION TO -life-has at times beën in danger but His Majesty is certainly in a safer position than he was a week ago. because the doctors are dealing with

ECHO OF THE 1925 STRIKE .

the local condition rather than the A Chinese lady made no. reply in infection involving the whole body, the Summary Court this morning The King is holding his own and when her own solicitor suggested to has improved since yesterday. Ill her that she went away from Hong

at No 149, Nam Chung-street.

1. A second charge, that of receiving,

was lodged against the woman.

The theft of the motor took place some time between Dec. 1 and 3, and the value of the article is said to be $160.

His Worship: allowed bail at $1,000 each, and remanded the caso until Wednesday next at 10.30 am, FASCIST COUNCIL

NEW TARIFFS To Operate From.

Feb. 1

Shanghai: To-day

A new tariff schedule, opera- Live from February 1 for one year, includes:-

Piecegoods, shirtings and shottings 21 to 86 candareens 'per piece.

Poplins, Tis.1.26 to Tls.1.58 per plece.

Prints not over 20 inches, 10 per cent. ad valorem; 32 to 42 inches, length 30 yards 48 can- dareena per pièce.

Yarns, counts up to 17'8r. Tis:3 per pleul; counts 35 to 45 Tla:5.10 per picul; above 45's 71⁄2 per cent. ad valorem.

Dyed yarn 7 per cent. ad

valorem.

Flax yarn, flax thread, 10 per cent.

Silk piecegoods 22% per cont Artifical silk piecegoods, 15 per cent.

Silk clothing and hosiery. 22% per cent.

Silk cast ca.12% per cent. Clothing and haberdasbery, 171⁄2 per cent.

Woollen piecegoods 15 per cent.-Router.

race

It is not believed, however, that BOLIVIAN OUTBREAK [anything like a general crash ist

Ilkely. The losses are mostly in SERIOUS BORDER INCIDENTS

stocks, which lately were the sub- |ject of reckless speculation,

pre of.j Responsible quarters opinion that the slump will tend to a healthier situation.-Reuter's i American Service,

REPORTED.

"GIVEN HIS PASSPORT"

Lapaz, Bolivia, Yesterday.

is some-

what darkened by Sir A. Chamber- lain's and M. Briand's recent state-

ments on the evacuation of the Rhineland and reparations.

Herr Stresemann whom his Ber- *Įlin'opponents nickname "the Minis, ter of illusions," is reported to be determined to demand from M. Briand and Sir A. Chamberlain a clear-cut statement on both mat He is emphasising Article

In view of the official information ters.

that a large part of the garrison, 431 of the Treaty, which stipulates

THE UNEMPLOYED namely twenty-five Bolivian sol- the immediate evacuation of the

THE KING'S KINDNESS TO

MINER'S RAMILY

WORK AT SANDRINGHAM'

London, Dec. 8.

diers, have

A

been killed 800 Paraguayans alleged passtrig on Bollyian

by Rhineland if or 'before the expira- tres- tion of 15 years, "Germany complies terris with all undertakings resulting Herr Strese- For ram the Treaty.

tory, the Minister for Relations has handed the Para mann has already conferred pri- guayan Charge d'Affaires, Signor vately and separately with M. Ayada, his passport. Signor Ayala Briand and Sir Austen. was escorted to, the border, under guard.

Fight Near a Fort ·

Buenos Aires, Yesterday..

Friendly Interview

An unemployed Sunderland miner and his wife and family of four children have, within the past few days, been installed in a cottage on the King's Sandringham estate on that the occupants of a fort buüt Stresemann at the latter's hotel.

the personal Instructions of the

A message from. Asuncion statea

King. This ex-miner has been given by the Bolivians near Galpon 'fired

M. Briand, accompanied by an interpreter and Professor Eynard, conferred for an hour with Herr

French circle's are reticent in

Gor-.~

regular employment as a workman. On a party of Paraguayans, who re-regard to the discussion, on the estate and it is probable that turned the fire and captured several man's circles declared the inter- Boldiers. Reuter's view was most friendly, and relat- work will also be found for one of officers and his boys...

ness of this kind must, be tedious, Kong during the crisis. in 1925] ASSUMES SUPREME POWER /the southern command, one of the contribution to the national prò-|

American Service.

SIR ARTHUR PAGET

DEATH OF GUARDS GENERAL

London, Yesterday,

ed to items on the agenda of the League Council, also to general" political questions and doubtless referring to the evacuation of the Rhineland and reparations.

The conversations are to be con- tinued.

M. Brland declined to make a

He subsequently visited Sir A.

Two days before His Majesty caught the chill which brought on his lineas he gave instructions for a letter to be sent to the Minister of Labour in which an appeal is nan Island, which, latter is part of made to property owners to make

blem of industrial transfer by offer The death la ahnounced of Sir statement and looked pre-occupiód. four military areas into which ing employment as estate workmen Arthur Paget-Reuter. Kwangtung province la divided for to unemployed areas. The King! [General Rt. Hon. Sir Arthur Chamberlain, with whom he had. also made the arrangements at Paget (Henry Fitzroy), F.C. Ire only 10 minutes conversation owing Sandringham for the employment of land, 1912; G.C.B., er. 1913; K.C.B., to the lateness of the hour.--Reu- an ex-miner as stated-British er. 1907; KC.VO, cr. 1906;. C.B. Wireless Service. ..

1904; C.V.O: 1901; King at Arms, Q.B.E.; b. Mar. 1, 1851; e. s. of late Gen. Lord Alfred H. Paget, C.B.,

IN ITALY

MUSSOLINI ON WAR PATH

Rome, Yesterday..

garrisoning purposes.

There must be ebb and flow and "because she was afraid Hong Kong progress must be laborious Hap- would blow up or sink. pily during the last twenty-four The remark was made by Mr. hours the tide has been flowing. C. A. S. Russ, who appeared on be Needle exploration and xray both half of Tang Lau-mi, married

She had on board six rifles, five showed that there was no apprecia-woman of No., 59, Lee Garden- The Chamber held its last session bayonets, 96 clips.of rifle ammuni- ble pleural effusion and, therefore, street. She sued Tang Yik-dang, under the existing system and was tion, eight revolvers and 572 rounds there is no object in conducting an merchant of No. 278, Des Veux-then prorogued. Every Deputy of ammunition, fiye machine-guns operation."

road West for $1,000 alleged to have wore a black shirt and a big bouquet guns and 1,804 rounds of ammuni- The Prince of Wales ́`

been entrusted to him on trust, on of red roses fed with the tricolour tion, and one iron stick. The Prince of Wales left Port June 27, 1925.

reposed in front of Signor Musso- All the firearms and ammunition Said for Brindisi aboard H.M.S.

The case was heard by Mr. lini's seat. The Duce was wildly were in the custody of the ship. A "Enterprise" ht 1:20 last night..

Justice Jacks (Paisne Judge) Mr. cheered on his entrance and imme-passenger accompanying the ship" 3. M. Hall defended,

diately after the Fascist anthem! was sung..

Princess Mary -

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Owing to the improvement In the

A Bank Which Failed

King's condition Princess Mary was Plaintiff and defendant are cou-

The Bill making the Grand Fas- able yesterday to visit Northampton-- and carry out a long programme of sins, said Mr. Russ. Plaintiff de- clat Council the all powerful body public engagements. Early in, the posited the money with defendant, in the State was passed without a week it was feared she would be for safe keeping, through her hus-division.

menta.

band:

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SPECIAL CHRISTMAS NUMBER

The Special Christmas Num- ber of "The China Mail" 'will be published next Satur- day. No large display adver tising space can be guaranteed. after. Tuesday and advertisers are accordingly. asked to send. their copy in by that day. Copy

for smaller advertisements will. be received up to Wednesday morning.

WAR PENSIONS

EXPENDITURE' DOWN BY

£3,000,000

ANNUAL REPORT

London, Dec.

A fenture of the annual

ter.

VISCOUNT BYNG

and Cecilia (d. 1914). 2nd d. and MEETS SIR. W. HORWOOD AT

SCOTLAND YARD. co-heir of G. T. Wyndham, Cromer

Hall, Norfolk; m. 1878.. Mary (d.

1919), s. d. of late Paran and POLICE.PROBLEMS DISCUSSED Marietta Stevens; two 8. and di Entered Scots Guards, 1869; Lt.-

It was revealed recently that the

Cal. 1852; Col. 1895; Mal-Gen. 1900; retiring Commissioner of Police, aerved Ashanti War, 1873 (medal, Sir William Horwood, and the report ·

with clasp); Soudan, 1885 (medal new Commissioner, Lord Byng.

of the Ministry of Pensions, issued with clasp, Khedive's star); had met and discussed the many to-day, la the steady decline of the Burmah, 1887-88 (medal with problems which confront the police number of beneficiaries. The total clasp); Soudan, 1888-89, including to-day...

number of persons in receipt of action of Gemalzah (clasp); com- Standing on the main staircase pensions or allowances from the, manded 1st Scots Guards, South of the Yard Sir William Horwood Ministry at the end of the year was Africa: 20th Brigade (despatches; a few days later, hade farewell to 1,584,850, comprising approximate medal 6 clasps); 1st Div. 1st Army his staff of 800. He thanked them ly 24,900 officers, 1,000 nurses, Corps, 1902-6; Eastern Command, for their services, but made no 488,000 men, 144,000 widows, 416,-1908-11; Offeer commanding the mention of the troubled times 000 children and 510,000 other de Forces in Ireland, 1911-17 holds through which the police have been pondants..

Order of the Red Eagle (first class), passing,

The Kellogg Pact compelled to cancel the arrange-Asked why she did so, the lady re-

Signor Mussolini, In the course of

Not Reassuring

plied that she did not think it safe hia, speech, said that the Kellogg Reáter states: The.. bulletin is

to bring so much money to Canton Pact was "ao sublime that one might. not' regarded as reassuring. The during the boycott, prompting Mr even call It transcendental". But it exhaustion following upon 19 days Russ to make the observation quots would be treason against the Nation to ignore the fact that the whole persistent fever. The reference to ed... the pulse, for

Plaintiff's husband also gave evid- world is arming and building sub- the first time, is

marines, cruisers and other imple- hardly antisfactory dign and it ence. would seem to indicate that though

The defence is that the $1,000 was ments of war. "We must have no. the doctors are at present able to deposited with the Kui On Bank, illusions about the political state of Europe. Though, a storm Is ap- which failed. certain amount of, anxiety exists. Mr. Russ argued that defendant, proaching everybody talks of peace. The bacteriologist Sir L. E, I, was not authorised by plaintiff to We do hot. want to disturb 'th Euro- Whitby, who conducted the exam- deposit, the money in the Kul .On pean equilibrium but we must be ination in the early stages, was

Bank, and that defendant deposited ready and nobody ought to be called to the Palace to-night and had the money in his own: name instead, astonished if I call-upon this Na-

tion, whose convalescence is com-ment, giving his name as Wong. half an hour's consultation with Sir of that for the plaintiff. S. Hewett and Lord Dawson. Plaintiff husband, In the course plete, to make another sacrifice so Chung, is described as a staff officer less than the previous year.British

of his testimony, recalled the fact that all our forces, or sea, on land attached to "headquarters of one of Wireless Service.. that, all were forbidden to take more and in the air may be. perfected.". than $5 out of Hong Kong at the time.

report that the pulse la steady a

It is understood that Sir L. E. H. Whitby did not. aed, the King.

Sir S. Hewett is again staying at

the Palace to-night,"

No Marked Change Despite the reference in to-day's | bulletin to a certain measure of exhaustion," Reuter learna from. the highest authority that there has been no marked. change in His | Majesty's condition. The bulletin

PLANE RECORD

·GIPSY MOTH'S SPLENDID TRIUMPH

Those desiring extra, coples of the Christmas Number are nskeil to notify the Publisher as soon as possible so that extra coples may be printed

the divisions in the 11th Natlónálist! The deputies here rose and chear Army fed vociferously, Reuter,

DRUG TRAFFIC

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BIG HAUL REPORTED FROM AMERICA WORTH. £250,000

After the customary inspection-by-c Revenue officers, the Police were 'called' in-and there has been a hitch in the transfer of the arms to Canton...

In the interval, representations

New York, Yesterday,ernmonti ··

is regarded as being of a less satis-

London, Dec. 8.

The remarriage of widows during Grand Gross of the Dannebrog, Sir William was given five pieces: the year caused a reduction in their Legion of Honour (Grand Officer) of silver. Three, including a huge total of 2,500. The pensionable age Order of St. Alexander Nevsky fruit bow! and two silver cups, limit of sixteen was reached by (Russia); Order of the White Eagle were presented by Rear Admiral 65,000 children, and there were (Serbia). Address: Warren House, Sir W. Royds, the Deputy Commis 27,000 deaths.

Coombe Wood, Kingston Hill Club: sloser, on behalf of the assistant

commissioners and chief.const-, ables. Two silver caskets presented by Supt. Mac-Millan on behalf of the various area super- intendents, all of whom attended the Yard for the ceremony. -

The total expenditure of the Turf.] Ministry for the year' Was £59,800,000, being about £3,800,000.

U.S. SUPER “SUBS.”.

TWO MORE AT COST OF G.$1,350,000 EACH

Washington; Yesterday. President Coolidge has asked

SOVIET AGENTS

COMMUNISTS ABRESTED IN CAIRO

were

The retiring Commissioner per- formed his last official act by hand- Cairo, Yesterday.

ing the Victor Ludorum Gup to the The Folice arrested a number of Superintendent of H. Division. alleged Communist agitators at The cup le competed for by the their homes yesterday including Metropolitan Divisions, and is won Russian Jew named Ellahu Teper by the division securing the highest...

GERMAN PROTEST

Sir Wyndham. Childs

Sir Wyndham Childe, the head of the C.I.D., who is also leaving the Yard, was presented with a gold, cigarette case by the officers of the special political branch..

are being made to the Canton Gov. Congress to authorise the expendi-who is believed to have been aggregate points in all forms of

ture of an additional G.$1,850,000 pecially sent from Moscow by the athletic sports

Communist International following The new Police investigations indicate that the 11th Nationalist Army, on each of two giant submarines at the deportations of Communista make his first pubile, appearance In

Commissioner wraa jgh, factory nature than, could be deair- Piloting a Gipsy Moth plane, Rothstein and Meuhoned who are referred

to foregoing present being constructed.

This extra grant is necessitated from Egypt on June 26 to revive his new capacity at the Armistice ed, but the exhaustion is one of the yesterday Mr. Rutler, Chairman of under arrest for complicity in the paragraph, a commanded by anticipated effects of a long and the De Havilland Aircraft Com-depe" trade derived wealth from General Chan Ming-shu (Chen by an alteration to the vessels' communiste activities in that coun- ceremony at the Cenotaph.

try-Reuters American Service. engines-Reuter's American Ser- trying illness with Ito lessening of pany, accompanied by his wife as other sources than gambling--which Min-chu) who has been ap- více. the King's recuperative powers, passenger, broke the world's speed was their defence. The discovery pointed chairman of the Kwang-

The bulletin dested at 8.30 and record for two-seater tight aero-is reported of two trunks at a tung Provincial Government but has Mr. F. G. Penny, the member for, signed by two doctors saya that the planes over a closed circuit of one railway station containing contra-not assumed office. King passed a quiet day but there hundred kilometres. The distance band drugs valued at £250,000 The arms are believed to belong has been no diminution in the ex of roughly sixty-three miles was apparently part of the stock of the to a detachment on transfer from

ring" In the Hainan to Canton. haustion and the pulse remains covered at an average speed of principal "dope"

United States. steady.

102.864 kilometres, hourly.

Herren Baumer and Puls in a It is also claimed that Rothstein Evening Bulletin Another bulletin was: fasued at Baumer monopland previously held made a practice of balling criminals 8:30 this evening to the effect that the record namely 191.959 kiloat exorbitant fees,

Five arrests have been made, kut the King has passed a quiet day but metres hourly.

The flight was officially observed. all have been allowed out on ball- (Cóntinued on Page 18.) -British Wireless Service:

Reuter's American Service.

| Kingatón," and one of the Whips, guards the door of the Lobby of the House of Commons at nights, and, tries to prevent members, from es- caping,He says, "You're. not«, go-

ing away old man, are you?" in such

ALLEGED FRENCH ESPIONAGE

Berlin, Yesterday.

New York, Yesterday The first snow fell in the town and surround-

Germany has protested to Paris ing country to-day. Up to now an

a way that even the member with and the Rhineland High Commis- inch has fallen and the thermometer

TO-DAY'S DOLLAR

the most pressing Invitation to dinesion against industrial espionage is at thirty degrees Fahrenheit. The closing rate of the dollar on outside, postpones it, to conform to practised by the French Secret Ser Experts predict an unusually severe winterReuter's American Service. viceBeater. 'demand, to-day was 2/0 3/16.the Whip's wishes.