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HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1928,
TO STEM AMERICA'S PROMOTION OF PEACE CRUDE RUBBER TO
FLOODS
IN INDUSTRY
ON COLORADO RIVER EMPLOYERS' VIEWS GIGANTIC DAM TO COST AN REPLIES MADE TO THE INTERIM
ENORMOUS SUM
REPORT
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UNITED STATES
A COMPARISON IMPORTANT STATEMENT BY B.O.T. SECRETARY
THEN AND NOW・・
Washington, Yesterday.
London, Yesterday.
London, Yesterday. The house of Representatives by Fractically all organsations of In the House of Commons at 166 to 122 votes, has accepted the employers have made their replies question time Sir Philip Cunliffe senate amendments to Swidg John-regarding the agreements reached Lister (Secretary of State for the between Lord Melchett's group of Board of Trade), stated that be- son, Boulder Dam Bill which pro- employers and the General Council tween April 1 and Sept. 30; the im- vided for the construction of a of the Trades' Union Congress to porte in crude rubber to the United States from the United Kingdom, huge dam at the Colorado River at promote peace in industry.
Employers who are in touch with British Malaya and Ceylon, respec- Black Canyon for the purposes of the feeling of their colleagues in tively, were 61,787 lbs. 250,235 lbs. flood protection and irrigation other industries do not anticipate and $2,466 lbs. and valued at junqualified acceptance or rejection 29,313,000 £11,615,000 and £1,526,- power.
of all that is contained in the in-1000. It is estimated to cost $165,000 terim report. It is believed that, During the corresponding period 1000.
in the main, replies will be found, in 1927 the corresponding figures The bill will now go to the White to convey approval of the efforts were 42,191 lbs. 294,097 lba. and made to secure a measure of clos-140,360 lbs. and the value £3,180,000, House-Beuter's American Service,er co-operation in the industry and £22,925,000 and £3,043,000-Reu.
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LADY DRUMMOND
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"If I were a millionaire I would buy a "Zeppelin" and use it as a private yacht!"
With this comment on the com fort and safety of the great Graf, Zeppelin," Lady: "Drummond Hay, the famous British journalist, and the first woman to make the West ward crossing by air, disembarked. ut the close of this thrilling, his- tory-making voyage.
n desire for a joint consultation} with the General Council of thej Trade Union Congress.
It is stated that the vast major- ity of employers have been far too interested to think of anything like unqualifled rejection.
A preliminary conference of an officially representative character may be held early in the Now Year-British Wireless, Service,
A BOY'S GAME FATAL EXPERIMENTING IN HANGING
FACING PERIL
:
THE ETERNAL BATTLE OF LIFE
SERIES OF LECTURES
Professor Gilbert Murray recent- the Memorial ly delivered in Hall, Farringdon Street, London, under the Halley Stewart Trust Fund, the first of six lectures on The ordeal of civilisation; the war, the League, and the future.”
Professor Murray said that if] the pacifist wanted to sook the WHAT HE THOUGHT -
truth he must face the essential A verdict. of "death by misad-tragedy of life. Constant fighting
one of the pri Before a crowd estimated, at venture," consequent en hanging and killing was
followed while playing at judicial execu-mary and fundamental facts of life, which must be realised in crow tion, was returned, at the inquest order to understand any moral pro- in twenty-five Packard cars, at Camberwell recently on Dennis blema. and attended by A. cordon Entwistle, aged 14, who was found
Enthusiastic Welcome
500,000, Dr. Eckener,
by
his
passengers and
League of Nations speakers knew
af palice, jed a triumphal parade by his brother, hanging from the that if they showed on a lantern up Broadway to City Hall. Nine banisters at his home.
navy.
picked officers from New York's Mr. A. E. Entwistle said that slide two alternative ways of set- mounted force preceded the proces-his son, was an assistant laborating an international dispute
either by a cavalry charge with sion, followed by two full military tory porter at his school." He was horses plunging and men killing bands, several companies of army very jolly, but seemed nervy and
one another or falling dend un- reserves and a detachment of the highly strung, He had never
threatened to commit suicide, and der the hoofs, or by a conference of rather plain and bald old gentle- Great Reception
was particularly fond of the joy:
men reading papers to one another Comparable only with the demon-of living. strations accorded to Colonel Lind-
Cecil Entwistle, a brother, satd round the table nearly every boy bergh and to the men who crossed that Dennis once said that it was and girl in the room was secretly
in favour of the cavalry charge. the Atlantic in the Bremen, the impossible to hang, because a per-
They did not want to kill; they lower part of Manhattan Island, the json could always cut himself down'
wanted to face death and peril, to very heart of Now York, presented before strangling. He said he had perhaps the most, colourful spectacle heard a discussion at school. His put forth for one great moment the of recent months. A tangle of tick mother found two kitchen knives extreme effort of mind and body of which they were capable. They er-tape swept the street, suspended in Dennis's coat pocket.
cause.
from the sky-scrapers-German The Coroner said that the evi-wanted to do it for others, for their flags were everywhere and to add dence failed to prove that the boy country, for some great unspecified to the official aspect of the event, intended to hang himself. "He three army planes flying in the simply brooded on this subject of He did not think the facts proved
Modern Self-Control wedge-shaped military formation, execution," he said, "and, finding that fighting in itself hovered over the route which the himself alone. he thought he for the character quite the reverse. heroes followed.
would prove his theory by cutting A civilised man practised without the rope."
Tense Waiting New York, noted for its hospi-
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The fundamental condemnation |
THE 1928 FILM
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DE HERBERT BRINON (odption.
Based on P. C. Wren's famous story of the Foreign Legiort. AT THE
STAR
which was more-than the moral did herself-introduced a new note
equivalent of the constant fighting, by presenting Dr.. Eckener with
that he had lost. Who could ap- roses a touch which simbolises the
preciate the degree of daily self- new feeling of cordiality between
control and self-mastery necessary the two nations. The four days of
plays, for a respectable lawyer, doctor, tense waiting showed that beneath "Gentlemen of the Preas and merchant, or artisan in a civilised the casual outward appearance of The Front Page," are now being European community? the Western hemisphere's greatest staged in New York, but the city there was one great question--journalists of the town are not one of war was that it interrupted and "Wif they succeed?"
little bit pleased about the pictures made impossible the main task of given of them. They are repre- civillantion, the two-fold task of Then the news came that the sented as what one dramatic critic raising the level of fadividual gigantic ship had been seen and calls a fearfully: hard-belled lot-character and power New Yorkers again breathed freely. Heralded by a blast of whistles and unmannerly, unclean, unshaved, un- maké possible the formation of a
holy, hard drinking, impoverished, betted society, and of organising Bookbinders. welcoming shouts of the city's irresponsible profaners .of.
the society in better ways, so as to call population swarming to the streets, speech of our race."
forth higher qualities in the in:] windows and roofs, the""""Graf
Queer (writes a correspondent);dividuals who are Its citizens. Zeppelin," on October 15, was sight this tradition of hard-awearing Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, who ed lying through the mists which crime reporters for the stage. surrounded Manhattan Island-and know Ben Hecht, one of the co-Halley Stewart Trust was research Dentist.
I presided, said that the object of the
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seconds, the huge craft was direct-authors of The Front Fagu" we towards the Christian ideal In on the staff of the same social. Hife. Nothing could be
·ly overhead-and gone.
The sight of your beautiful air-Chicago paper. I never heard him clearer than that peace was Chris- ship told again the story of wear, yet the language in his playffan arid war was not. In the pre-
blisters the paint....... • Columbus and Magellan, of Cabot boon recalling bo mind the; crime sente resort to force might prove to Electrical Supplies.
I have sent condition of international, life Acting Mayor McKee, of New York reporters on the big dailies In the be necessary in order to represa United States and in England lawbreakers, but it was a necessary City, welcomed the pioneers and gave them the freedom of the Amer-Without exception they were quiet, vil War. was an evil in itself: civil-spoken, well-mannered men All the evils of the world were in- ican metropolis.
who might we have passed for consistent with Christian morality, Nonconformist ministers of the and there was none more "facon best type. They dressed well sistent than war. though... uriostentatiously. They Indra Jit son of the editor tion. They were extremely modest ate, drank, and joked with modera-
LAHORE TRAGEDY
Lahore, Yesterday.
of the daily paper "Arya Sama" about their abilities. Obviously has been arrested and his father's
Coventry's city engineer states he
house searched in connection with American melodrama bas despaired is preparing for the council a town- of "putting em across"!" to full planning scheme of some: 80,000
the murder of Mr. Saunders.
The police have also searched the houses! Dayanand Arya college hostel near the acene of the crime, the premises. of the "Servants of the People"? Society formed by Lalá Lajpat Rai,
Reuter,
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