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NEW. 1928

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ANTI - IMPERIALISM LEAGUE

LEADERS DETAINED

BRITISH GOVERNMENT ASKED TO INTERVENE

WHO THE SECRETARY IS

London, Yesterday. The authorities at Ostend, Bal- glum, last evening, detained Mr. Reginald Francis Orlando Bridge man, C.M.G., M.V.O., who is the Secretary of the Anti-Imperialism League, also. Mr. J. Maxton, M.P., and Mr. S. Saklatvala, M.P.

The "Dally Herald," a Labour organ, identifies Mr. Bridgeman as cousin of Viscount Lascelles

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(the husband of Princess Mary) and of the Rt. Hon. Mr. W. C. Bridgeman, the First Lord of the Admiralty.

China Mail

No, 26,078

HONG KONG,

SHED

TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1929. PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

TRFFIC OFFENCES G.$1,000,000 FOR THE "CLOG COLLISION" THE ABDICATION OF

MOTOR CYCLE USED BY UNLICENSED DRIVER

GONE TO CANTON

A Chinese named Peter Wong, of No. 60, Robinson-road, was summon- ed before Major C. Wilson, O.B.E., at the Central Magistracy this morn- ing, for driving motor car No. 225 in Calue-road without a licence, on December 90.

SALVATION ARMY

IN AMERICA

MUNIFICENT GIFT FROM JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JUN.

TRUST ESTABLISHED

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SOLDIER ACCUSES COOLIE

OF ASSAULT.

· LYING WITNESS

AMANULLAH

NEWS CONFIRMED

The alleged amsault of a soldier MONARCH TOO HASTY, WITH led to a Chinese coolie appearing at

the Kowloon Magistracy this morn-

Ing.

The defendant was charged with London, Yesterday, assaulting, Lance Corp. Jackson of American Salvationists in Lon- the Queen's Regiment, at.6 p.m. Jes- Defendant was not present in

In evidence, the complainant Court, and Traffle Sub-Inspector don learn that Mr. John D. Rocke-terday in Bowring-street.

# stated tha be was walking along Nicol, reporting that the man had feiler, Junior, has established gone to Canton, asked for the sum-Million dollar Trust for the Army Bowring-street with a lady friend American who was pushing a perambulator mons to be adjourned sine die.

with a child 12.

In America-Reuter'a Sanitary Inspector W. G. Gunn Service. was summoned for allowing an un- licensed driver to drive his motor at cycle in Queen's-road Central 11.46 a.m., on January 4,

Defendant replied that the charge was correct, but added that he did not know that the person concerned

Mr. Maxton is chairman of the did not have a cence. Anti-Imperialism League.

Parole Accepted

Messrs. Bridgeman, Maxton and Saklatvala were on their way to

A fine of $4 was imposed.

MARSHAL FOCH

HEART ATTACK

Cologne to attend a meeting of SUFFERING SERIOUSLY FROM the League. The authorities ordered them to return to England by the next boat. The authorities accepted their parole that they, would not leave their hotel over- night, under penalty.

COMPLETE REST NEEDED

París, Yesterday. Marshal Foch is seriously ill. A

Mr. Bridgeman had a conversa-bulletin states that he is suffering tion with Reuter's by long-distance telephone between Catend and London. He stated that the other members of the party, Mr. A. J. Conk (the British miners' leader), Mr. Alex Gossip and Mrs. Baruth, were permitted to continue their journey to Cologne.

Phoned to Mr. Baldwin Mr. Bridgeman also related that the Maritime Commissioner at Ostend stopped him, Mr. Maxton and Mr. Saklatvala at the barrier and informed them' that the Bel- gian Minister of Justice had pro- hibited, their entry into Belgium. and that their passports and tickets were immediately taken

away.

They immediately communicated with the British Ambassador at Brussels, who promised (said Mr. Bridgeman) to take up the matter with the Belgian Government.

Marshal Foch.

HOME WEATHER

SEVERE FROST THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY

15 FOOT SNOWDRIFTS

London, Yesterday. While over the greater part of Britain the severe frost has been followed by a gradual thaw, Ex- moor has experienced during the last fortnight the severest weather known for some years. Gales fol- lowed by heavy snow, and drifts were formed in some places 15 feet deep.

moorland

of The

town Simonsbath was cut off from the outside world for five days, but a path has now been made from Dul- varton. The frost has been so hard that saws had to be used to cut the surface before spades could be em- ployed.--British Wireless Service.

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GERMAN "REDS".

CAUSE TROUBLE IN BERLIN -WWII POLICE

ROWDY DEMONSTRATION

Berlin, Yesterday.

WESTERN REFORMS

BROTHER" SUCCEEDS

Pelawar, Yesterday.

It is strongly rumoured on the frontier that King Amanullah has abdicabed in favour of his elder brother, Prince Inayatullah.

King Amanullah is stated to have token refuge in Kandahar, travel ling there by aeroplane,

London, Yesterday. „Amanullah's abdication is au thoritatively confirmed in London.

Later.

His friend, continued the witness, went into a shop while he was wait- ing outside. defendant, it was

read and collided with the parambu- alleged, sudden ran across the

London Surprised lator.

Amanullah's abdication has sur- Witness, however, tried to push prized London, though Reuter's re- the Intruder sway when the latter cent Indian telegrams showing that protested and struck witness on the the malcontents were making head- face with a clog which he had in his

hand.

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The mark Indicted by the defen-

dant was still his face when he went to the police station.

Private Corkay corroborated the

story.

At the instance of the defendant, a Chinese witness was then called to give evidence.

"Stand Down” g

This witness was finally ordered to "stand down by the Magistrate who reprimanded him for telling e pack of lies and on being coached.

Defendant denied that he had struck the complainant but admitted that the complainants face had "col- lided with his ebg." He maintained that the complainant was drunk at the time.

Mr. E. W. Hamilton, the Magis- trate, said: "I don't believe a word of what you have said, and you come here to accuse a perfectly respect-

The tenth anniversary of the deathable man of hating been drünk,

of the communists Karl Liebknecht

The defendantag fined, mor

and Rosa Luxembourg of the Sparta one month's hard labour,

cist movement occurred to-day. Twelve thousand Comunista gathered at the graveside and at- tempted, despite a prohibition, to march across Berlin with banners flying. There were a few collisions

from heart attack and requires com- with the police, and thirty-eight ar

Tendency to Improve

Mr. Maxton telephoned to theplete rest. Rt. Hon. Mr. Stanley Baldwin (the Premier), requesting the British Foreign Office to Intervene.-Reu- ter.

SAD FATALITY

EUROPEAN BOY VICTIM OF 'ACCIDENT

POLICE INSPECTOR'S SON

The eldest son of Inspector and Mrs. H. E. Phillips, of the Kowloon Oity Police Station, met with aj tragic death shortly after tiffin yes- terday. He was knocked down and killed by a motor bus lu Kow.

Crests were made.--Reuter.

Later.

Marshal Foch's condition arouses anxiety but shows a tendency to Improve. Seven doctors signed this afternoon's bulletin.-Router.

EMPIRE TEA

INQUIRY INTO PROPOSED MARKING

RUSSIAN GENERAL

MURDERED IN REVENGE FOR BROTHER'S EXECUTION

Moscow, Yesterday. General Slaschev, one of Denikin's chief Heutenants who conquered the Crimea for the White Russians in 1919, but afterwards quarrelled with General Wrangel, has been murder- ed in his fiat. A young sian named Kolenberg, who has been arrested, declared that he committed the mur- der to avenge his brother, who was At the resumed hearing of the executed by Slaschev's orders during Empire tea-growers' application the civil war in South Russia, that imported tea bear an indica-

his quarrel with General

CHAIRMAN'S QUERY

London, Yesterday..

RAIN COMING ?

N. E. winds, moderate to fresh, fine at first, drizzle later, is the forecast until noon to- morrow.

The depression has deepened and is now central over N. E. Japan. The anticyclone cen- tral over N. E. China has strengthened. Fresh monsoon may be expected along the 8. E. coast of China and over the north China Sea.

CELL TRAGEDY

PRISONER STRANGLES HIM- SELF AT STATION

HELD REVOLVER 'PARTS

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BRITON SENT TO HOUSE OF DETENTION

"FRIEND AT WANCHAI"

JAPANESE TORTURED IN HANKOW

BOYCOTT OUTCOME

HUNG UP AT STRIKE PICKETS HEADQUARTERS

A Briton named Wiliam Hender- son was charged before Major - C. Willson, O.B.E., at the Central. Magistracy this morning, with be- CHARGED WITH BEING A SPY |ing a vagrant.

Hankow, To-day.

Sub-Inspector Elston, who prose-. outed, and that the defendant claim- A Japanese, dressed as a Chinese, ed that he had a friend at Wanchai was arrested yesterday, by pickets who had put him up, but the police of the anti-Nippon Boycott Society were aware that the man mentioned and taken to Strike Headquarters by defendant was in the same cir- where, it is alleged, he was hung up. cumstances as he.

by the hands for an hour, and It is understood The Inspector added that there severely beaten, was another person who had pre-was charged with spying on the [that this Japanese victim of torture viously helped the defendant but now boycotters or strikers rofured to do any more for him. He had had enough of the defendant; who had been a nuisance to him.

Expecting a Job

The matter was brought to the at- tention of the Japaness Consul

General at Hankow and the victim Asked by the Magistrate if he had loner for Foreign Affairs.

{was released later by the Commis-

King Amanullah and his Queen.

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It is stated that the Japanese Consul-General is at present pre-

paring a very strong protest and it is explained that the Japanese vic- tim donned Chinese clothing while |visiting his premises in the French

Concession,-Reuter.

No Change

An overnight Royal Naval communique states that there la no change in the situation at Hankow.

Hankow, Yesterday. There is very little change in the situation. The boycott, if anything. is tightening, Chinese picksta have now commissioned two launches to prevent Chinese boatman carrying supplies to the Japanese Concession-Reuter.

ROYAL PATIENTS :

PRINCE GEORGE SUFFERING FROM A COLD

THEIR MAJESTIES! HEALTH-

London, Yesterday,

The bulletin issued at 11 am.: stated that the King is making slow progress. The next bulletin will be issued on Tuesday evening.

This morning's bulletin 'was the first for thirty-eight hours, none having been issued yesterday. The doctors' decision not to issue a buil- letin on Sunday-the first day. without one aface the illness began was dictated by the belief that no change of any Importance was Jike-

"Comfortable. Day":

It is learnt officially that King had

way clearly indicated that such a any means, Henderson said that he climax to the monarch's impetuous might get money from Home any attem to westernise his primitive day, whilst he was also expecting to and fanatical subjects was only to get a job in two or three days' time. ¡y in the interim. be expected. It is little over six, He added that he had $1.70 on him. Last week the King had a series months since Amanullah and his Sub-Inspector Elston said that of quiet and restful days and nights Queen returned to Kabul, They Henderson had been in hospital which have been helpful and satis- immediately convoked the tribal several times suffering from the factory, but improvement is still so chiefs and ordered them to don effects of drink.

slow at this stage that it can hardly western attire. The King's fur-

Henderson: Once only, air.. |be measured over a period of twenty- ther attack on the powers of the

The Officer added that Henderson four hours. This morning's satis- holy mullahs and his abolition of the purdah transformed sullen never paid his billa at the hospital factory bulletin contained the first and was a source of great expense mention of, progress" since that of compliance into active revolt, which broke out in the Jalalabad to the Government, and a nuisance. last Wednesday. British Wireless area at the end of November and He had been in the House of Daten- Service.

tion in August last, Some kind Boon spread to Kabul.

The Monarch deferred until too friends took him out but they did loon City-road, immediately oppo- tion of origin, Mr. J. W. Morris Water, Stecher first retired to Cheung Kwal was arrested in Des troops, many of whom became dis-ship comm

not keep him for long because he On Sunday a Chinese named late to increase the pay of bla It appears that the little boy (speaking for the Grocers Federe Constantinople, but later became a Voeux-road, West, for the sileged affected.

His Worship committed Hender- (Henry), who was only 9 years of tion), said that evidence would be lecturer at the Moscow military col-unlawful possession of 12 parts of

It is stated at Bockingham Palace It le very difficult to obtain re-son to the House of Detention. revolveru. age, had apparently been playing shown that if, as a result of te lege-Reuter.

liable, news of the happenings in Henderson? Can I have this kept that Queen Mary's cold is to-day outside and was returning to the order that apore Empire tea be con-

He was brought before a Magia-Afghanistan, but the winter is now out of the Presa?

better, although her Majesty is for Police Station, when he was knock-sumed, the price would be raised,

His Worship replied that that the present keeping to her rooms ---- trate yesterday morning," charged so severe that fighting can hardly ed down. He was struck on the and the price only kept low by the

with the possession of the contra-have been on an extensive scale.

was a matter for Henderson to ap| British Wireless Service. 2: bead by the front axle of the bus, sasistance of Java and Sumatra tea,

band without a licence from the Cap- Well informed circles in London proach the Superintendent of the and the impact was so great that the proposed order would encourage

tain Superintendent of Police, and regard the situation as serious but Jall about, death was instantaneous.

dishonesty and increase the burden

was remanded police custody are not so much apprehensive of until to-morrow, H

danger to foreigners as anxious as After the reinfid, Cheung was regards the restoration of a stable

Police Stationen Kaffery when the

New Delhi, Yesterday, cell was opened, the man was found The Turkish Military Mission has

tying a sock tightly round his neck.

alte the Police Station.

The driver of the 'bus applied for retailers. The proper way for the brakes immediately he saw the Empire growers, he added, to deal

PRINCE OLAV

ENGAGED TO KING OF SWEDEN'S NIECE

Stockholm, Yesterday, The engagement of Princess Sweder, to Prince Olav, Crown Prince of Norway, has been official-and. He had tried himself by arrived at Kabul-Reuter. ly announced.Reuter.

lad in front of the vehicle but was with competition, was to show their Martha, niece, of the King of mined in cell! No? B ́at the Central Government. unable to pull up in time. The superiority and not try to strangle 'bus came to a standstill, however, competitors by an Act of Parlia immediately after the impact, and ment. the little lad's lifeless body was found lying in front of rear near wheel.

Opposed 'Argumente

Mr. J. D. Cassels, K.C. (Recorder

Much: sympathy will be felt by of Guildford aince 1927), arguing the many friends of Inspector and for the opponents of the proposal, Mrs. Phillips in their sad less. contended that the marking order

The unfortunate occurrence re- would be disastrous to the tea trade ...... calls an incident last year when one and almost impossible to enforce.

IN PAWN

A EUROPEAN'S SUIT.

́DISCOVERED V

In a pawnshop a Chinese detective

SERIOUS CHARGE

ALLEGED BRIBERY BY CHINESE SERGEANT-

"CALLED TO MEET A LADY"-

TO HOLD ICHANG

GENERAL YANG SEN TAKING

OVER CONTROL":

BRITISH S.N.0.« VISIT

ni Hankow, Yesterday.

a comfortable day and that his con- dilton is unchanged-Renter.

• The Queen Better

Prince George

Prince George has a slight cold and is keeping, to his rooms---Hau- ter.

WATERSIDE RIOTS

VOLUNTEERS INJURED AT PORT ADELAIDE

FURTHER OUTBREAKS

HEART ATTACK

MR, WALTER J.-L FORD DIES LAST NIGHT

FUNERAL TO-MORROW

Coming as a shock to his wide circle of friends, the death occurred at about half past ten tast night of

Melbourne, Yesterday, Mr. Walter J. L. Ford, chief inter-

The violence that is attending the preter to Messrs. Willdnson Grist, protracted waterfront dispute in solicitors,

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|Australia has again, been laataured Mr. Ford had been confined to the at Port Adelaide where volunteer house, No. 18, Granville-svenue, stevedores who were loading the Kowloon, for some days following steamer "Mareeba" were attacked

of their daughters was knocked The chairman asked the opponents discovered a suit of European cloth down by a motor car In Chatham- of the proposal whether they would Ing, stolen from Mr. J. Whelan of

A sergeant of the Shantung con- road. Fortunately, she was not be satisfied with an order excluding No. 281, Nathan-road, last Satar tingent of the Police Force was LMS. "Bee," a Yangtare gunboat heart attack. Yesterday he showed by over thousand trade unionista. fatally injured, but had to remain blenda, Mr. Cassels repiled: "Yes. day, charged before Major C Wilson (the flagship of Rear Admiral H. J. agua of improvement but succumbet The agitators later pelted the police in hospital for a long time.

I do not think there will be any dif- At the Kowloon Magietmey this 0.BE with demanding a bribe Tweedle, CB fear Admiral and last, wight= The little boy's funeral will take culty in this connection.

morning, Mr. B. W. Hamilton order and with misconduct as a police Senior Naval Officer, Yangtze), Educated

with stone and lumps of fron. The Queen's College, police then gathered reinforce place this evening, leaving the Mr. Hübery, speaking for the ap-ed the suit to be returned to Mr, officer way on sails; to-day for Ichang, 370 miles Hong Kong, Mr. Ford had ments and made a truncheon Yaumat Forry Wharf by Police plicants for the order, contended that Whelan without payment to the Mr. W. Kent, A.S.F., prosecuting, further up the River.

been with pawnbroker,

said that the defendant was alleged It is reported that there is a pos The clothing, it is understood, to have proce

No. 5 Chung sibility that General Yang Ben had been pawn for. $8,

Hing street toniNov; 28 an

down-r |manding whom h house

launch at 4.85,

SMALL-POX

During the week cases of small-poi

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the order would not injure trade and

will not increase the price of tea.

The inquiry has concluded eu

FRENCH POST

NEW CONEEL GENERAL AT SHANGHAL

SQUAKE TR

of Brothe

Mesars"; "Wilkinson charge, driving the attackers from over” 26 – years, the wharf, Fifty of the volunteers Avery onlar among ware injured.-Beuter, 1and business com

and his death will be deep U.S. FOREIGN TRADE

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