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ES THE NEWSPAPER ENTIRE

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China Mail

No. 27,622

CONFERENCE DEALS DOLE DENOUNCED BY

WITH BIG TASKS.

LLOYD GEORGE.

ESTABLISHED

1845

HONG KONG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1930.

EXCITING RACE TO AUSTRALIA.

Dominions Delegates | System of "Unwarranted| Kingsford-Smith Close

Have Much to Ask.

HARD-WORKED COMMITTEES

Rugby, Yesterday.

Cadging."

44

SHEER LUNACY."

**London, Yesterday.

Behind.

NEARING END OF JOURNEY.

Batavia, Yesterday.

STEEPLECHASES.

GOOD SPORT IS ASSURED AT KWANTI,

REVIEW OF ENTRANTS.

[By "Wombat."],

A very large crowd is expected to be in attendance at the Kwanti

noon. Trains will leave Kowloon

race.

the

The

TO-DAY'S DOLLAR. closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/8 9/16.

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

BRIDGE ACROSS THE EASTLAND DEFIES

ZAMBESI.

Costly Development Scheme for Africa.

way.

JOINING THE RAILWAYS.

WESTLAND.

Dachshund Versus Greyhound.

Dainty Eyeglasses

N. LAZARUS Ophthalmic Optician

13. Queen's Road Central,

ARMOURED CARS' WIDE RANGE.

[By Capt. Liddell Hart.]

Amesbury, Sept. 12.

ARMY

AWARDS TO

BE CHANGED.

Efficiency Medals for Officers and Men.

BY ROYAL WARRANT.

London, Yesterday.

Royal warranta are published

ings of the heads until the reports/terests, employers, trade unions. stages of their Britain to Austra- 'distance of one mile and a quarter. $1,434,000, and the work is expect-ran roughly through Bath and for long service and good con- ·

keen interest here.

Autumn Services Cup.

two 'p.m.

the regular army and other per- manent forces in the Empire.- Reuter.

Rugby, Yesterday. Captain Kingsford Smith arriv-steeplechase races which will come Contracts were signed to-day for

A battle that began in a mist and in the London Gazette to-day pro- Mr. Lloyd George, addressing

Thus viding for the grant of an "effi- "tail-twisting." Engineering Compay Limited of ended in The hends of the delegations to | the Imperial Conference have the Liberal conference at Tor-ed at Sourabaya at 5 p.m. and left up for decision to-morrow after-the construction by the Cleveland

to the for Atamboea at 5 am. to-day Station at 1.40 p.m. returning to bridge across the Zambest and some might be described to-day's sequel ciency decoration" and an "effi- Kowloon at 5.68 after the last 5 miles of railway on the south to yesterday's revival of Allenby's ciency medal" to officers and men now completed their preliminary quay to-day, referring

Exciting Race. discussions on the whole agenda Liberal-Labour conversations on Reuter.

There is a very attractive card bank of the river, to connect the break-through in Palestine. Yester-respectively of the auxiliary mill- of the conference and have remit-the subject of unemployment,

Rugby, Yesterday.

existing lines of the Trans-Zambest day morning the Westland army tary forces throughout the Em- Railway and the Central Africa Rail-supposedly stormed the northern pire, instead of the decorations ted to the Committees the vari-said that the Liberals had re-

The progress of the two airmen, of fine races, of which questions included in the commended the Government to

The total contract price is sector of the entrenched front that and medals at present awarded duct. There will also be one agenda. It was agreed at their call a conference representing

ed to take at least three years to Dorchester.

"long service and good conduct” meeting to-day to suspend meet-all industries, commercial in who have now reached the final November Handicap Stakes, over a

Flight-Lieu-

It will provide direct

Like Allenby's unmechanised mo-medal for warrant officers, non- A big percentage of the field complete. begin to come in from the com-banks, and distributive trades, to a flight, is being watched with is the principal offering.

70 make proposals for increasing our tenant Hill, on the twelfth day of

Gen. Between 60 and

on a private Moth should turn out here. It is reason-1 communication between Nyaanland, bile: force in Palestine twelve commissioned officers and men of

years all but eight days ago mittees.

his journey

force moved The extension of the railway to Harman's mobile now before the efficiency and competitive power questions" are Committees and at the beginning by reducing the cost of produc-neroplane, was reported this morn-ably certain that As You Like It and the Port of Beira. of next week as much time as tion without lowering the working to be on his way from Bima will get the two miles as well as

to Atambun, on Timer Island. It Bright Prospeet, Carbine, and The Tapelake Nyasa, which has hitherto gradually forward behind the at-

Ptarmigan. Country Club should been without railway communication tacking infantry. At to possible will be devoted to Com-ers' standard of living.

He added that the Government is understood that he hopes

to-run well here, as, also should Pal to the coast, is also being begun by yesterday he heard that this attack mittee work in the hope that the

Port Darwin early

O'Mine. I rather like the chances the new company, which has agreed had smashed a gaping hole in the cile orders with possibilities, Gen. enemy's front between the Kennet Ready decided to strike at the least hends may shortly resume their must set an example similarly in reach

to carry out these schemes. Australia by 'drastic cuts of ex-morrow morning.

It is understood that the Govern- and Avon Canal and the Mediter mobile part of the enemy's force- meetings.

Capt. Kingsford Smith, who left of At to-day's meeting the Empire penditure, especially as regards

ment of Nyasaland is undertaking ranean, the imaginary Middle of the 7th Infantry Brigade. Marketing Board, the Imperial the cost of unemployment relief. Britain four days after Hill, took Economic Committee and the Im-Millions could be saved by the pre-off for Sourabaya from Singapore Castle Peak Handicap Steeplechase the improvement of the roads of the England Sea. His trak was to pour would attack it on the high ground This should be one of the most Protectorate and of the steamship through the gap, and then, wheel-west of the Avon soon after dawn. perial Shipping Committee and vention of "unwarranted cadg-on his Avro Avian monoplane

Here I have services on Lake Nyasa. The totaling inwards, to drive for Salisbury. But soon after midnight his plan their chairmen were thanked for ing" on the dole. He said that early this morning and is expect-

He was told that he ought to oc- was reversed-because his idea of the demands for pensions and ed at Port Darwin on Sunday. reason to suppose San Francisco cost of all these enterprises, in- their services

sheer British Wireless Service.

will be a well backed competitor. cluding the construction of the cupy that nodal point by eight p.m. the enemy's position changed.' And The draft of the disarmament family allowances

I also believe that Movanagher bridge and approach railway, ie ex-to-day so as to dislocate the with this change, for the worse, was convention, which will be before lunacy. There should be a con-

pected to amount to about £3,250, drawal of the enemy's forces from apparently caused by a piece of new the November meeting of the siderable reduction in taxation. Preparatory Commisson for the He proposed a national develop- Disarmament Conference, was ment loan to finance public works. discussed this afternoon by the-Reuter. Arbitration to Disarmament Committee of the Imperial Con- ference, and a large measure of on the agreement was reached general principles of the conven- tion.

..

Technical Questions.

was

OPIUM DEALER FINED.

Fan Yuen, of 52. Battery Street, was to-day charged before Mr. H. R. Butters on two counts under

the Opium Ordinance. He plead

EMPIRE CRUSADER. VICE-ADMIRAL TAYLOR TO STAND FOR NEW PARTY. BEAVERBROOK HECKLED.

London, Yesterday. Vice-Admiral E. A. Taylor ac- cepted the invitation, to stand as

South Paddington at a lively meeting presided over by Lord' Beaverbrook, who was severely

AS YOU LIKE IT.

attractive events.

י

| ULLMİNUINELE|T||||||ÐÐÐLÁÐQ.--British Wireless Service.

FAIR WEATHER

The Royal Obervatory re- ports at 10.25:

Pressure is highest from Shanghai to Vladivostock and to the North-east of Japan.

It is relatively low in the extreme South.

Forecast: East moderate; fair.

winde,

VIOLENT QUAKE. CITY DISTURBED BY SHOCK AT DAWN.

DWELLERS FLEE TO PARKS.

the

He

the Wincanton sallent in their information that in itself was more centre. Compared with Allenby's exact than anything he had yet artery-cutting stroke in Palestine. gained. It was one of the dramatic thia margin of time was, large in accidents of war. view of the fact that Salisbury was

Despatch Rider's Luck. barely half the dialance behind the front that El Afula and His 11th Hussar armoured curs, The which Had done good work in locat closer the Beisan lay in Palestine.

artery

more ing the enemy's earlier moves, were immediate the effect, but also sent in the evening on a "Jeb Stuart Santiago, Chile, Yesterday.

the earlier must it be severed to ride" right round the enemy's rear. At a meeting of the Committea ed guilty to the possession of 4

Sixteen persons were injured have full effect. It is an Interesting But it fell to one of their motor- under Lord Sankey's chairman-tacls of raw opium and 1.2 taels Empire Crusade candidate for

and one woman killed during a question whether in an interval of cycle despatch riders, coming back, thirty boura after the break to make the chief discovery. For ship, the work of reviewing cer- of prepared opium respectively.

Revenue Officer A. W. Grimmitt tain aspects of inter-Imperial re- lations in the light of the con- asked his Worship to treat the cage

violent earthquake shock here at through the enemy would not have he rode in the dark past the whole dawn in the interior of Chile, be- disengaged his main forces and of the enemy's Armoured Brigade in stitutional changes made by the as a serious one, as the accused

Savernake Forest and got back actually a dealer. It was heckled.-Reuter. 1926 Imperial Conference

WAR WAS

[Vice-Admiral Ernest Augus- will conjoin his running when last tween La Serena and Valdivia. have fallen back sufficiently known that the man was paid for continued. Most of the ques-

Target has disappointed before, panic. Many buildings were dam-point only twenty-five miles behind tions before this Committee are protection. He was found at 52, tus Taylor, C.M.G., C.V.O., was tried and is sure to fill a place. The population was filled with nullify a flank thrust simed at a with the newa unharmed. of a highly technical character. Battery Street where he was cut born in 1876 and Commanded but he looks encouraging here. aged. The earthquake lasted for his original front.

ting raw opium. Some have been referred to a

Mr. Butters imposed a total fine H.M.S.-Renown during the Prince Sucre will revel in the going, and several minutes, and the popu- small sub-committees, some to

the alternative of of Wales' tours in Canada in 1919, is sure to stay. Fernleaf has an lation of Santiago were of $400 with

obvious chance. Fenhole does not stricken, and fled to the parks. technical experts, ad, some have four months hard labour. and Australia and New Zealand look good here. I hope to have Reuter's American Service. been considered by the com- inittee as a whole.

in 1920. He was placed on the re-located the tired list in 1924.

chant shipping questions, which unkown,

CHINESE FIRM SWINDLED.

firm

TAIKOO DOCK ACCIDENT.

Writing in the London Evening Standard recently, Lord Beaver

CHINESE HONOURED DR. SU MIN-YEE MEETS BELGIAN PRINCE.

terror!

Winzer, preference

being expressed for

SAN FRANCISCO

BUILDING BLOWN UP

·

DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT ONE

"

MILLION DOLLARS.

STRIKERS SUSPECTED,

I have been told that November

FANLING STAG.

The November Cup.

for... seven American Service.

the pro-

OD The Chief item

to

But the deduction apparently drawn from that significant fact Westland's Three Obstacles, was that the whole of the enemy's That question, however, was for force had now been concentrated in area. Hence the centre of the Higher Command to settle, not that for Gen. Harman. His own pro- gravity of General Ready's morning blem was complicated by three attack was hastily shifted to the side of the Avon. The 1st factors. First, the obstacle provid-east ed by the enemy's general reserve, Guards Brigade was to lead, backed a whole division strong with, aby the tank battalion, and the 3rd battalion of tanks. Second, the fact Infantry Brigade. The 2nd was that he was given as his "primary merely to advance on the other bank object" to prevent this Eaatiand in conformity. cement being poured into the hole

The consequence was a blow in in the front for "at least sixteen the air, with all the risks of losing

made

the

The questions that have so far JUNK AND STEAMER COLLIDE. been before the Committee in-

The master of the s.8. Lok Sang clude those affecting the nation- ́ality prize, law and discipline of made a report to the Water Police armed forces, commercial treatles that whilst his vessel was at the brook drew attention to the fact and Target may be reserved for of the proposed Empire tribunal, Southern Fairway at 6.48 a.m., and that the Conservative candidate other events. The starters for this and the issue of full powers and moving from West to East, near the for South Paddington, Sir Her-event do not make a very imprea- exequaturs, All of the delega- Jardine Wharf, à cargo junk, going bert Liddiard, at the behest of the sive show and is, therefore, a very Shiny Pearl

Los Angeles, Yesterday. tions have expressed their views from East to West, suddenly star-Central Conservative office, re-hard race to name.

An immense explosion wrecked hours." By then presumably still one's balance that such a "vacuum- on these and other subjects, but boarded helm, with the result that pudiated the solemn pledge to may start and, as he has done good

been pushed through the breach in worse because of a morning fog recommendations will not be the junk ran into the starboard side support food taxes, which had things on the flat, he may secre

secured his adoption by the local here. Richmond Stag is a big fal-the Garment Capital building to- more Westland reserves would have cleaner" entails. They were taken until the work of the sub- of the steamer.

Lord low with pace, and Andantino may day, causing estimated damage his wake. Third, the enemy had which made air reconnaissance

Fifty committees is completed. Mer- The damage done to the junk is Conservative Association.

Beaverbrook, therefore, asks find the going suitable. Discord has of one million dollars. South Paddington Conservatives been over the course and knows people were injured by the force formed a defensive flank along the perilous game of hide-and-seek until were referred to the sub-com

"Moreover, the new Eastland plan to write and assure him of their the danger zone. The Ptarmigan of the explosion, which overturn-jagged edge of the break. This the aircraft were recalled.

An out- barrier stretched almost as far back mittee, were considered to-day

willingness to support the Em- and Mad Carew were once handy ed motor cars nearby.

derage is suspected, as the strike of as Devizes where the bridge was virtually unbarred the enemy's way and the discussion of certain

runners but both may have

the International Garment Work- broken and beyond this town there to Salisbury. For the whole Mobile treaty questions was continued Tung Sui-sal, manager of the pire crusade candidate.

It is noteworthy that besides generated. I stand for

ers' Union has been in progress was no bridge strong enough for Force could fall on and sweep round tanks to cross antil Pewsey was the one isolated brigade west of The next task before the Sankey Ming Wong Electrical Co., of 96,

weeks. Reuter's

reached.

the Avon. Against it Generat Har- Committee is the consideration of Wing Lok Street, reported to the Liddiard, the prospective can-

This limitation compelled Gen.man launched, soon after nine the report of last year's confer- Police that a Chinese representing didates already in the field in Paddington are Miga ence on the operation of Domin- himself to be from the Tai Kwong South

Harman to push a good way east o'clock, his 7th Infantry Brigade ion legislation. It is hoped that firm, obtained from him 720 Dorothy Evans (Labour), and

Mrs. Stewart Richardson (United gramme should be a clasa event His Excellency the Governor has before he could wheel south against and the 5th Bn. Royal Tank Corps, it will be completed by the end of batteries to the value of $128.12. next week.

Later, he discovered that the man Empire Party), Lord Rother- with such good cattle entered. appointed Mr. Brian Charles Kelth Salisbury. Preceded by armoured while the 1st Cavalry Brigade 'was' Christmas Frolfe, by virtue Hawking to be Assistant Head of cars, the 2nd Cavalry Brigade, as directed to work round its western an flank. He had still in hand his 2nd was not known to the Tal Kwong mere's organisation.]

of hia last

per Sanitary Department, with effect recorded. yesterday, year's

astonishingly, rapid march to seize Cavalry Brigade and the other tank formances, is sure to be a heavily from October 9,

the higher downs that is between battalion. And these might be backed trier. I have not much in- formation regarding the others, It is notified that at the expiration Devizes and Stonehenge. I hear used to drive down the open path

Chimes

to Salisbury. or of three months from date the Sui that they covered eighteen miles in

only but if Christmas Christmas Belle start here they Sang Steamship Company, Limited two hours, although their horses will take 2 lot of wheeling will, unless cause is shown to the suffered the natural penalty of averted by General Ready's small GIFTS FOR ROYAL FAMILY. Montana beat. Christmas Frolic contrary, be struck off the register fatigue which mechanised vehicles but priceless endowment of armour-

last season, but he was very lucky and dissolved.

ed mobility. When the danger was The 1st Cavalry Brigade followed. realised a hurried but vain effort Brussels, Yesterday. to score as Christmas Frolic`ran

It is ordered that the suspension When the 2nd had gained the high was made to switch the 3rd Infan The Crown Prince Leopold to out at the last hurdle when he

of regulation 29 of the regulations ground it was relieved by the 7th try Brigade from the east to the day received Dr. Su Min Yee, the looked a sure winner. For the

made by the Governor in Council Infantry Brigade, brought forward weet of the Avon Legs could not Chinese Confmissioner General to winner 1 am giving

under section of the Dogs Ordinance, swiftly in buses In war this relief carry it there in time. But the 2nd the Liege Exhibition, accom panied by the Assistant Commis

1927, be determined. The suspen- might not have arrived, for the "bus Bn. Royal Tank Corps could race sioner and Secretary, who hand-

was there in time to be in wait for ed over presents for the Royal The Goods was, scratched in an 8fon referred to was made by the column was spotted and twice across on mechanical legs, And it earlier event for this and on his Order of the Governor in Council effectively bombed from the air.. Family Reuter.

flat running he should just about published, in the Gazette of August The Eastland aircraft rendered the enemy's attack."

most useful service to their com

Skilfully handled, it countered and score here. The pick of the others 1.

mander, Gen. Ready, for they also partly crippled the Westland tank would be Diana, who can safely

Informed him that the Armoured attack, twice "crossing the Twith Brigade had moved east along the deadly effect. And the Westland let historie Bath Road to Marlborough. Cavalry Brigade was also caught Now, he had been ordered net and drastically handled by the East- merely to guard Salisbury, but to land armoured cars, which thus "attack and destroy the raiders as set the seal on a, ubiquitous" far north as possible." Logically, twenty-four Yours of service. this task did not offer a very hopeful Even so, the danger to Ballsbury prospect for an Infantry division was not lifted, for Eastland's two against a mobile and partly armour last sheep" Infantry brigades and ed force-perhaps about as reason one "dead mutton could not be able as ordering a dachshund to go considered an adequate barrier for a greyhound.

against the reserve .not merely of the British Armye strength but mobility which West "Charge of the Light land could still iso to gain her

to recon- goal London Daily Telegraph.

Industrial Research. The Research Committee of the Imperial Conference, comprising the administrative heads from all the Dominions, are making visits, to the industrial and agri-

A report was made to the Police cultural research centres in Bri- by Mr. Bird, head watchman, Talkoo tain Yesterday they visited the Docks, to the effect that a Chinese National Physical Laboratory, and fitter working on board the B.8. Paul to-day in the afternoon went to Beau received serious injuries to his the research station at Green-chest as a result of a water tank, wich to inspect the plant for ex-weighing about three-quarter of a tracting oil from coal. They distos. Lalling upon him." cuased oil negotiating within the The man was removed to the Gov. Empire British Wireless. Ser-ernment Civil Hospital. - vice.

Regulations under sections 3 and.

Government

85 of the Motor Spirit Ordinance are published Gazette.

the

DASTARDLY DEED,

A Chinese wins dealer in Reclama-

tion Street, Yaumati, made a report to the Police yesterday that whilst

MORE VANDALISM.

CHRISTMAS FROLIC

Fitth Race."

N

Before Mr. H. R. Butters this do the distance. The Partridge

At the Central Theatro "A sleeping outside his doorway, an Dangerous Woman" le being shown unknown person throw corrosive morning a Chinese was charged with and Ma Kau Blac belong to the to-day-a day cariler than originally acid over his face, announced.

A fine of 88 with the alternative of ten days fall was imposed by Mr. Butters

who to day pleaded guilty

wood," from College

plank

Ca Balle

5 Hond.

He was badly burned in the face and shoulder and was taken to the Kwong Wan Hospital for treatment

His condition is perious,

EARTH COOLIE KILLED

Whilst working on

ng Dore, & site at Cor Road,

the larceny of thirty fron hooks, same stable both of them are the property of the Hop Vick firm of good. Blue Boy is a possiblilty, building contractors, Hankow, Bad, and will run well if started. The

selection is REALLY where the new, Wing Lock Building, rest abould be left alone. My has been erected and completed

Det Sargeant Humphreys sald that the defendant had some of the hools concealed in his girdle, whilst ills were found in his shoes.

the buildin

the

2nd Race.

San Francisco „Target

Movanagher

And Races Fanling Stag o Kirribilli

Big Ching

4th Reco. Christmas Frolic Penhole

escape.

THE GOODS.

SELECTIONE

1′′f Race.

As You Like I Country Club

Blue Boy

45th Race:

The whole floor, wall

The Goods

Ho

Mr. Stanton's Mount

bred

(Continued of foot of next Column.)

strated; how the

was ktrippeds

Mr Butters passed sentence

wo hourilater two months hard labourer

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An Eastland disaster was