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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1928.

LONDON'S TERRIFIC BRITAIN'S TRADE BOLIVIA - PARAGUAY

GAS EXPLOSIONS

FRESH DETAILS

CONDITIONS

A REVIEW

EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCES MR. BALDWIN MAKES, A STATE- .IN WEST-CENTRAL DISTRICT

ENORMOUS DAMAGE

London, Yesterday,

MENT IN COMMONS:

SEA FREIGHT RATES

London, Yesterday.

DISPUTE

AN M.P.'s QUERY

THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE EXPLAINED.

LEAGUE COUNCIL'S ACTION

London, Yesterday.

The gas explosions which occur- In the House of Commons, Mr. A question was asked, in the red early this morning under West- Baldwin, reviewing conditions, said House of Commons if the Foreign Central London, were of a terrific the country as a whole was prosper Secretary had entered into nego- character and did a tremendous ous and that industry was alive tiations with the United States in amount of damage,

and growing. The dawn of a gen-order to secure, with the help of Wonderfully enough, there was no eral trade revival, however, had the League of Nations, à peaceful loss of life but 17 persons were disappointingly not matured. He settlement of the dispute between of Bolivia and more or less seriously injured. traced the delay to the reduced the Governments

The effects of explosións, were spending powers due to the effects Paraguay. amazing,

of the 1926 strike. 1928 had been Mr. G. Locker Lampson (Under- Solid concrete roadways and pave- singularly free of industrial trouble Secretary for Foreign Affairs) re- ments were torn like so much paper and he expected that full benefits plied in the negative. He said the Government had not and heaved Into heaps, leaving therefrom would be manifested in British gaping holes many yards wide and 1929. The recent stiffening of sea thought it right to take any ac- deep.

freight rates had led to a large tion on this question independent) In places roads were like petrified increase of. orders for tramp of the League of Nations. waves and huge slabs of pavement steamers.-Reuter. were piled up against the walls of houses and shops.

The Council of the League had tele- graphed to the two Governments congratulating them on having ac- "Like A Small Earthquake" for this account?". Witness did not cepted the good offices of Pan- American Congress and thus find- The scene resembled that wrought reply. by a small earthquake.

Finally, as to the "S.C.M.P.'s im-ing a peaceable means of compos-

ing, their mains swepti

differences. British Gas from broken

plication that certain words com-

Wireless Service. over the district, and people in the plained of were in the "China Mail." streets staggered away gasping.

Both the "China' Mail", and the Several families were nearly gassed and were only just able to totter out of their fame-choked houses.; Dozens of pedestrians were flung down.

Morning Post" said that the NEW "GOVERNOR”

specimen (now known to have been a photo) was handed to Mr. Black and both explained that Mr. Jenkin asked if the specimen signature was by Mr. Black,

GÉNERAL CHAN MING-SHU TAKES OATHS

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MARSHAL LI'S TRIBUTE

Shop windows were shattered and houses shook, many sleepers being

The words "specimen," "signa-} Manholes shot!

"I am turning over my office to a lung out off bed..

ture" and "writing" were used six) into the air. One rose 70 feet and times in the "China Mail" and man whose loyalty to the State can crashed through the roof and then eight times, in the "S.C.M.P." not be questioned," said Marshal Li through two floors without hurting Word for word, these pasaages Chai-sum in Canton on Wednesday anyone. A taxicab was hurled on

23 a crater appeared to its side beneath it, the driver being thrown Gas mains were down and hurt. ablaze all around.

In Gas Masks

Workers in

gas masks were

were:-

"China Mall"

1. Mr. Black and His Signa- ture (second heading).

2. Witness rushed to the scene in lorries Does Not Iden-

to deal with them and there

was a general call for the fire brigade.

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tify His Own

Specimen (fourth hending).

3. Counsel confronted the Householders in the affected area

witness with the were asked by the borough surveyor specimen signa- not to use naked lights until offiture...

4. Mr. Jenkin leially told that it was safe to do

lasked W Mr.

so, and "no smoking" warrings, Black could say if issued by the police, were hung on the exhibit was the wrecked lamp-posts.

this owe signa- In the afternoon there was afture..

B.The signa- new explosion and a five-storey ture was past. en- ed оп strong building in Bloomebury, was

paper of about

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6. Mr. Jenkin,

to roads, gua. and water mains and pointing to the telegraph and telephone cables will exhibit: That is specimen amount to about £150,000.-British your Wireless Service.

Hundreds Homeless

It is estimated that damage to the extent of £50,000 was. done to roadways alone as the result of the Several hundred gas explosions. people are temporarily homeless.— Reuter.

THE YEO TRIAL

(Continued from Page 1.)

signature

"S.C.M.P."

when General Chan Ming-shu (Chen Min-chu) took the oaths of office as chairman of the Kwangtung Provin- 1-Ho Owncial Government. Signature O T Not? (first head- ing).

Marshal Li remaina as' chairman of the Canton branch of the Political -Witness Connell (the highest authority in Does Not Identhe province) and is still comman- tify Writing Said

2.

to be iis (second der-in-chief of the troops in the pro- heading).

vince." 3-One of the General Chan has hitherto been: salient featurea

commander of the 11th Nationalist of yesterday's hearing at the Army and one of the four Rehabill- trial of Carvalho tation Commissioners of Kwangtung Yeo was the fail province, his area being the south ure of Mr. T.

Black to identify and Hainan Island.

a

signature When the Nationalist Armies set which Mr. Jenkin out from Canton on the conquest of said was a speci- the North in 1926, General Chan

men

4-The speed commanded a division in the 4th men was handed Army, of which Marshal Li was then to witness

head, 5. and Mr.

After distinguished service in the Jenkin asked if it drive up to Hankow, he becama Gar- was his signa- tore.

rison Commissioner but was ousted 6-Mr. Black by pressure from the Reds. One of replied that he his subordinates secured a footing did not know and

repented the an-in Fukien province about a year ago; swer after look- and then he and General Chan re- ing at the speci-established themselves and returned men again.

7-Mr. Black to Kwangtung.

was then handed

a document hav-PEG O' MY HEART"

ing. his name and

was asked by Mr.

Jenkin whether iti

wes his signature. 8. Mr. Jenkin his concluded cross-examina-

US. AUTHOR DIES IN NEW

YORK

New York, Yesterday. tion by asking, The death is announced of the itig that your dramatist, Mr. Hartley Manners. anecimen signa-Reuter's American Service. ture...?"

[Mr. Manners was the author of the great dramatic success "Teg

accuracy which, as explained in the THE "CHINA MAII NEVER! paragraph immediately preceding, AT ANY TIME USED THE WORD O My Heart" in which his wife

THE was not due primarily to the "China | FAILURE OR FAILED.

great Mail." Mr. Potter sald:-

"MORNING FOST USED THE Laurette Taylor made a

"hit." Mr. Manners was born in

It was reported in that way and, in WORD FAILURE, in the first London in 1870 and was an actor fact, the question was put in that way sentence of its introductory para- by Mr. Jenkin, although no doubt he (Mr. Jenkin), would be the first to graph, in double column measure and from 1898 till 1905, making his first appearance in Melbourne,

correct such an impression,

He (Mr. Potter) did not think the papers were entirely to blame, because they did not know what the document was.

To this must be added the conclud- ing remarks of Mr. Jenkin, in reply to Mr. Potter.

It might fairly well have been that! he misled the Press in making that statement when he was resuming his seat! He very much regretted it.

Corroboration

Still the "China Mail" is not entirely satisfied with Mr. Jenkin's remarks by way of explanation. One of Mr. Jenkin's sentences was to the effect that:--

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black typo, the sentence being-

One of the salient features of yes-Australia. He had been identified with the American stage since terday's hearing of the trial of

Mr. Manners also wrote a Carvalho Yeo was the FAILURE of 1902. Mr..

T. Black to identify a signature, number of other plays, but nопе which Mr. Jenkin said was a specimen nearly a successful as "Peg O' which had been given to the Hong

My Heart"] Kong and Shanghai Bank

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In its report the next day, Satur day, Nov. 24, the "Morning Post" preceding the word "fall") in italics. still used the words FAILURE, andy The "Morning Post" itself used FAILED, in the following

the term FAILURE of Mr. Black Mr. T. Black's Alleged Fallure to in reporting the cross-examination; Identify Signature Explained (second it used on the next day the terms heading), and

A submission that Mr. T. Black had alleged BAILURE, and, Mr. T. Black not FAILED to identify his specimen had not FAILED; it laid emphasis on Mr. Potter's "did not tail"; tho signature

and, in the same breath, the "China Mall” nover referred to His recollection was that he did not "S.C.M. Post" added, AS STATED either fall or failure; the "H.K. ank Mr. Binck if he could tell what it IN AN AFTERNOON PAPER ON Telegraph," the only other afternoon (the enlarged photograph) was in the THURSDAY. senso that it was his specimen signa-

Used Itself

paper, did not report anything about!

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