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SPRINGS A LEAK

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CHAMPIONSHIP AWARDED

Miami, Yesterday,

FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1929.

ORIENT POLITICS 'AMERICAN VIEWS OF CHINA

FAITH IN ITS FUTURE

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On a honeymoon trip around the world, Mr. and Mrs. W. Ward Smith, of New York and Santa Fe, New Mexico, are in this Colony,! being guests at the Hong Kong Hotel

Mr. Smith is a well-known figure

BRITISH GENERAL

ELECTION

DATE ANNOUNCED

DISSOLUTION ON MAY 10: NOMINATION DAY MAY 20

POLLINGS ON MAY 30

London, Yesterday.

The Home Secretary (Sir Wri.

In the second and final heat Commodore Garwood's "Miss Amer ica" beat Major Segrave's "Miss was Secretary to the Hon. Nathan Commons confirmed that the Gen. England" by a lap and three- L. Miller, when the latter was eral Election would take place on quarters,

Governor of the State of New York, May 30, being the last Republican Governor

in American political circles and Joynson Hicks) in the House of

Carwood's time over the 12-mile course was 11 mins. 45.05 secs, aud Segrave's 15 mins. 50.41 Recs:

Segrave claimed the championship on the ground that he scored 400 points when "Miss America" broke down yesterday and 861 points to day compared with Garwood's 400 to-day,

..

Damaged in Collision

Miami, later,

After putting up a game fight in the first three laps "Miss England" was damaged in a collision with a floating log. She sprang & leak and was forced to slow down almost to a snail's pace to prevent the bot- tom being ripped out.

Automatic bailers prevented her from sinking.

World's Champion

Major Segrave has been officially recognised as the world's motor boat Champion-Reuter's American Ser-

vice.

“DIRTY” DEPTFORD

PINKS OR GERANIUMS TO MAKE IT BRIGHTER

Deptford Borough Council re- cently decided

to take steps to beautify and improve the borough.

Deptford, which has been called "Dirty Deptford," is one of the most populous boroughs south of the Thames.. The Council has a Labour majority, and in making this decision is following the lead of Bermondsey,

to

This means that the dissolution

MARSHAL FOCH

of the Empire State to hold office. will take place on May 10 and that Mr. Smith is credited with being the nomination day will be on May the first to organise a Hoover-for- 20.-Reuter! President Club in Greater New York. This was in 1920 and was followed by the organisation of similar Clubs throughout the United States, the majority of which were personally, organised by Mr. Smith.

All for Hoover

In 1927, in an interview, appear ing in two leading New York news papers-the "New York Times" and the "New York Herald-Tribune"

FOG COMING

This morning's weather re port, issued by the Royal Ob- cervatory stated:-

Mr.

The anti-cyclone hen weaken- ed further and is new central between the Loochons and the Bonins,

Moderate monsoon may be expected over the China Sea.

Forecast: Light N. E. or variable-nda; "fine at first; fog later.

(Continued from Page 1.)

Moving tributes to Marshal Foch were paid last night by several

statesmen. British

The Prime Minister, in a speech at the Foreign Press Association dinner, referred to Foch as one of the great soldiers of all time. "I think he will be remembered as long as he is remem- bered Es a soldier, as great Christian, a great gentleman, and a great man."*

At the same function Sir Austen Chamberlain said "It is only as

deeply few days ago that I was touched by hearing a tribute paid: to our own great Field-Marshal Haig by a great German soldier. I cannot help feeling that in years' to come the memory of great soldiers, on whatever

side they fought, will be a memory which links us in our common admiration for a noble man, and no longer a cause for severance."

A Man of Vision

i Mr. Lloyd George, speaking at Smith predicted that Mr.

Boston, said "He was a man of Hoover would be nominated as the vision, of imagination, of courage, Repablican candidate for President and above all he had that quality and that he would be the first to that appertains to all true great- break the so-called "Solid South,"

ress he had simplicity. hitherto an impregnable stronghold labours are over, but the triumph of the Democratic Party,

he won for the liberties of mankind

His

Mr. Smith, at that time, further remains," predicted that Mr. Hoover would

Many other tributes have been defeat Governor Al Smith in the

uttered by Englishmen. Lord latter's own home State, New York, and would receive more than 466 Beatty, declared that the loss was irreparable, whilst Lord Allenby alectoral votes. All of these presaid Marshal Foch's astute brain! dictions came true..

and nerve

carried the Allies to Mr. Hoover, as predicted by Mr.

victory. Smith, not only won New York in

His Majesty the King has sent.

to the the election but smashed the "Solid

the following telegram South," obtaining a big majority in certain Southern States unequalled French President: "With heartfelt sorrow I offer to you, Monsieur le by any other Republican Presiden-President of the French nation, my deep sympathy in the death of Mar. mourns her shal Foch. France

China's Crisis

Councillor W. H. Green, initiator of the scheme, said that he was not satisfied see St. Paul's Churchyard, Deptford, the dumping ground for empty beef tins.. He was looking forward to the time when the Town Hall would be garlanded with scarlet geraniums. Mrs. White, a Conservative mem- ber, said that if the Town Hall tial candidate.

decorated with was

scarlet geraniums she would insist either

Mr. and Mrs. Smith have been greatest soldier, my country the loss that lobelia be put among them to spending several months in China of one whose name is honoured on show that there was at least a and have visited Mukden, Tientsin, the roll of British Field-Marshals. sprinkling of her party in the Peking, Hankow, Pukow, Nanking, For all time he will be remembered Council, or that they should strike Shanghai, Macao and Canton. They as a distinguished chief who led the a happy medium with pinks.

have devoted much of their time to allied armies to victory, while hla The Borough Beautification and the study of Chinese art, as well as memory will be cherished by all Social Amenities Committee was the political and economical situa-ranks of the Empire's forces who formed, and will undertake the care tion. They are deeply impressed served in the World War.-British of existing open spaces

and the with their visit in the Orient and Wireless Service. acquisition of new open spaces and are great believers in China's play-grounds; the planting of trees future. and shrubs in the streets; the im provement of waste space by the planting of trees, shrubs, and flowers and other responsibilities.

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to be that the Nationalist Party will fall unless it can effectively check the present uprisings on the Yang- taze River. Mr. Smith's opinion is, that if the trouble makers can be defeated before June, the present Government Party will survive,

No Philippines Independence While in Manila, Mr. and Mrs. Smith made an extensive visit throughout the Island. After læten- ing to the pros and cone of the Philippine Independence movement, Mr. Smith reached the conclusion that the worst thing that can hap pen to the natives would be to have their independence granted, for Mr. Smith firmly believes that inde pendence would spell nothing but a chaotic break down of the Filipinos civilisation.

Mr. Smith suggested that the simple solution of the Philippine problem is a treaty between the United States, Great Britain and Japan, providing for an Interna tional protectorate of the Islands, guaranteeing them against any aggression on the part of any power

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