1929-12-24 — Page 12

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Tuesday, December 24, 1929.

Eleventh Moon, 24th Day.

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LONDON SERVICE.

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7th Jan. Mlles, Lasadon, 1:'dam, & lambung Sails at daylight.

LIVERPOOL SERVICE.

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28th Jan, Victoria, Vancouver & Festti-

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CHRISTMAS

HOLIDAYS,

On Wednesday, the 25th inst. and Thursday, the 26th inst. the G.P.O. and Branch Post Offices will be open from 8 am, to 9 am, There will be one collection from the pillar boxes and one de- livery of ordinary correspondence each day at 9' a.m.

The Money Order Office will be entirely closed during the Holi- dayo.

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don, Nov. 28)

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28. Canada (Victoria, B.C., Dec. 7), U.S.A.,

Japan and Shanghai U.S.A. (San Francisco, Nov. 29), Honolulu,

Japan and Shanghai

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DECEMBER

Yingchow

Halyany:

DAY

DECEMBER

ESTABLISHED

HONG KONG,

THE DANGER IN EGYPT

CHAMBERLAIN CONDEMNS LABOUR'S POLICY

RETROGRADE STEPS

London, Yesterday.

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1929.

DISTURBANCES IN MOTOR ACCESSORIES

NIGERIA

POLICE COMPELLED TO FIRE ON MOB OF WOMEN

EUROPEAN HURT

PLAN TO PARALISE TROOPS AND LOOT THE FACTORIES

London, Yesterday,

In the House of Commons to-day

STOLEN

ALLEGATIONS AGAINST A.

DRIVER

BAIL OF $1,000

This is not an isolated case of theft. Motor thefts have become wall regularised."

This statement ·was made by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Cen-j trai Magistracy this morning in fixing ball of $1,000 for a Chin- ese named Kwok Slu-kan, charged as under:-

The House of Commons to-day debated on Egypt on a motion of adjournment by Sir Austen Cham- berlain, who declared that the con- tingent promise to allow theat question time, Dr. Drummond Egyptian Battalion return to the Shiels, dealing with the recent Sudan was a dangerous retrogade disturbances in Southern Nigeria, step, and condemned the clauses in stated that a mob of women, armed the proposals bearing upon the pro- with sticks, arrived at Opobo on tection of British interests In December 16, and cut off the Dis Egypt, particularly the lines of trict Officer and twelve police from communication, and also the pro- the rest of the town, leaving the

Europeans defenceless. A platoon 21 and December 21 of motor car

CHRISTMAS WEATHER

The lowest temperature re- corded at the Observatory to- day was 44.8 degrees, at 5 p.m. · as compared with 44.5, the lowest (at 6 a.m. and 7 x.mi.) yesterday.

The local forecast until noon to-morrow is:-"Fresh N.E. winds, fair."

tection of foreigners and the foreign policy, which meant that the foreign policy of the British Empire would be governed by the interests of Egypt. "The elephant's march was conditioned by the mouse's trot."

Mr. Henderson, replying, said

that Sir Austen Chamberlain seem-

ed to think that there was little chance of the Egyptian Government carrying out the agreement in the spirit in which it was made. That was not the spirit in which the Government entered into the negotiations. It would not be the spirit in which the negotiations concluded once they had started after the Egyptian Parliament had ratified the proposals.

of troops under Lieutenant R. M. Hill arrived, but the mob pushed back the troops.

After giving over ton warnings, and as attempts were made to snatch the rifles from the troops, and the District Officer being attacked,

Lieut. Hill ordered them to fire. Nineteen women and one man were killed; ten women dled of their wounds, and eight women were pushed in the river by the rush of the mob and drowned.

They were satisfied that opening fire was the only possible course to save life and property. The Chief Jaja states that the plan was drawn up on the assumption that women would not be fired on.

The women

were to rush the officials and the men would then loot the factories The only other casualties were at Abako, where the police were com pelled to fire on a frenzied moh. Six women were killed.

(1) the theft, between October

TYPHOON WARNING

The following telegram has been received from Manila Observatory by the American Consulate General at 9 a.m.:

Correction to Typhoon ser- vice of December 23 11. a.m- Typhoon in about 139 degrees Long. E. and 14 degrees Lat. N., moving N.W.

accessories, the property of the Hong Kong Hotel garage;

(2) the theft on October 20 of a motor car bumper, the property of Lam Ying. of the Bang Lec firm of contractors; and

(3) the theft on November 15 of a jack, a spanner, three włúches, a turn screw, and a pair of ply- ers, the property of a Chinese "well in

named Chiu Si-kee, whose address was not given.

riots at Aba, on the Imo River. The European ladies were assaulted in

general situation is now

hand.-Reuter.

The principal publishing houses of Stockholm, Oslo and Copenhagen have combined to offer prizes for the nine beat Scandinavian novels. The prizes amount to nearly £4,000, and the books will be published to all three capitals.

There were alternative charges of receiving stolen property,

Mr. F. C. E. Rendall, Instructed by the accused's wife, appeared for the defence, and asked for a remand as he had only just Been retained.

Before giving an adjournment, Mr. Hamilton asked for the facts of the case.

Mr. Churchill Snubbed

London, Later. Mr. Churchill said that the acmarily on the speed with which the ceptance of the treaty in its present Egyptian authorities created the form and the withdrawal of troops required amenities in the Canal His Worship fixed hearing of from Cairo were likely to lead to Zone, and trusted that the Nation- the case for, 11.30 a.m. on Decem- bloodshed in Egypt, and a dangerousalists had enough commonsense to ber 80. situation on the Mediterranean. know that Mr. Churchill was now

Sir Herbert Samuel opined that it out of office and Egypt had to deal'

bail Mr. Rendall applied for was most desirable that the draft of with different mea propounding new saying that accused was the own- the treaty should be carried out in principles. He refuted the panic er of a public motor car, He got the interests of the British Empire suggestion" that the treaty would his living by running the car, and as well as of Egypt.

enable foreign armies to invade it was not likely that he would run Dr. Hugh Dalton, Foreign Under-Egypt, and pointed out that Egypt away, Seoretary, declared that the rate of be protected by the League Can- His Worship then fixed ball the removal of troops from Cairo venant. The debate adjourned-after making the remark quoted and Alexandria would depend pri- Reuter.

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