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No. 27,709

SOCCER SUSPENSION ECONOMIC MISSION

SEQUEL.

Decision of the English Association.

FAVOURABLE TO PLAYERS

p.m.

BLISHED

1846

HONG KONG, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1931.

STORY THAT IL DUCE PIRATES OUTRAGE

DID NOT LIKE.

ON VICTIMS.

What's One Life in

Affairs of State?"

TO-DAY'S

DOLLAR. — The closing rate of the dollar on denpand, to-day was 114.

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

TURKISH PLOTTERS

TO HANG.

Conspiracy to Usurp Kemalist Rule.

HERE.

Studying Trade in the Far East.

Hot Oil Poured Into

Their Ears.

FINAL STAGE OF LABOURS.

GENERAL'S INDISCRETION.

HANGED TO MAST HEAD,

SEVERE SENTENCES.

Headed by Sir Ernest Thompson,

Shanghai, To-day.

Constantinople, Yesterday,

A SECRET?

An Irish Motorist thinks that the Dunlop Rubber Company possess a valuable secret. Road what he says:-

from practical experience

I have been long since convinced that Dunlop covers and tubes `are the best made for cars, motor cycles and cycles. I say this from long experience.”

"The Dunlop Company, I think, is like Guinness & Co. It has a manufacturing secret, undiscovered by its competitors,"

The Dunlop Rubber Co., (China) Ltd. Fedder Building.

Telephone 2455-4.

EWIN'S VICTORY

DESCRIBED.

Body Attack Decides the Fight.

LOGAN'S RIGHT INEFFECTIVE

Seaman Harry Ewin, boxing star

EUROPEAN POWERS TO DISARM?

Britain Only. One to Set Example.

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HOUSE OF LORDS' DEBATE.

Rugby, Yesterday.

In the House of Lords to-day

The China Mail is courteous!v

Washington, Yesterday. informed by Mr. W. E. Hollands,

One of the most peculiar diplo The Chinese papers this morn- Seventy-eight persons have of H.M.S. Kent, apparently Hon. Secretary of the Football the British Economic Misalon to matic incidents ever known in ing report that junk pirates, in been sentenced to death out of made Manila sit up and take notice, Lord Dickinson opened a debate Association, that the decision of the Far East arrived in the Colony the United States has reached a the Woosung area on Tuesday, the first group accused in connec- by his eight-round knock-out of on International Disarmament the English Football Association this morning aboard the 8.3. climax by the Government fully when pursued by an attacking tion with the riot plot in Carlos Logan lest Saturday. Manila and referred to the conference relative to the suspension of two Comorin, and proceeded to the apologising to Signor Mussolini force, poured hot oil into the Smyrna. The other sentences critics, whilst conceding that Harry which the Council of the Leaguo players of the Chinese Athletic

through Mr. H. L. Stimson for a ears of five boat people whom vary from three to 24 years' hard might have the edge in experience of Nations had decided should Association, was received by mail Peninsula Hotel, which will be dinner speech by General Smedley they had carried off for ransom labour. The sentences must be and ringcraft, all inclined to the be- meet in February next year. to-day and is favourable to the their headquarters during their Butler, one of the most popular and then hanged them to the ratified by the Angora Chamber. lief that Logan's reputedly terrific Viscount Cecil said that while players concerned.

stay in the Colony.

officers in the U.S. Marines, but mast head.

-Reuter..

right would decide the issue in his (international competition in arma- The matter will be discussed at There are

twelve members of long regarded as an "enfant ter- It is reported that two Chinese (A message of December 28 favour. They either did not know,ments went on peace could not be a meeting of the Emergency the Commission, including the rible." His indiscretions so far steamship companies plying be stated:-Hitherto 1,000 arrests or forgot to mention, that Ewin has regarded as secure. The question Committee on Tuesday at 5.30 Chairman, and also a secretarial have brought nothing worse than tween Shanghai and Ningpo are have been made at Menemen, a wallop in his right mauler se was whether disarmament was

staff of three. The secretarial an unofficial reprimand, but he has employing from February 1 six-Magnesia, Konia, Smyrna, Stam-well!

possible. He believed it was and It may be recalled that the staff will be temporarily augment- now to face a general court-mar. teen anti-piracy guards for each boul and elsewhere, including Ewin was well advised to con- 'there was a really good chance

Sheiks, Dervishes, Imams, a centrate his attack suspension of two players was the ed, through the auspices of the tial for telling the Philadelphie of their vessels.Reuter.

downstairs, of its being brought about. number of women; and a whole where the average Filipino battlor Lord Bridgeman, Conservative, subject of discussion at a Council General Chamber of Commerce, by Club a story he heard from

battalion of troops whose loyalty does not relish it at all. meeting of the Football Associa- six stenographic typlats and four friend, namely, a friend who was

Logan said

that Britain alone of the tinn on November 12, when the copying typista. The extent of motoring with Signor Mussolini

was suspected has been interned was played out after the fourth European countries had made an minutes of the lengthy proceed the labours of the Commission is in Italy. The car knocked down

reduction in naval following the recent revolt at round, and then it only became a enormous Menemen in which several people question of time before the British strength, which could only be ings before the Emergency Com-indicated by the fact that, apart a child. Mussolini did not stop,

were killed, and which purported boy "took" him. mittee, the Council body, and the from the 20 rooms engaged in the he alleged, declaring: "What's

Logan, the justifled if they were met by cor- Appeals Board were read by the hotel for the use of its members, one life in affairs of State?"

to establish a "religious regime." undefeated, and "uncrowned middle- responding reductions by Chairman, Mr. J. Ormiston. a complete suite of office rooms

The authorities believe that the weight king of the Orient," was other Powers. We must all hope has been fitted up on the rat

revolt was not an isolated inci- game enough, but could not stand for the success of the conference dent, but the first phase of a vast up to the body attack. floor.

His "ter.next year. conspiracy aiming at the over- rife" right landed a couple of times, throw of the Kemalist "regime."1 only to make Harry shake his head. and bore in again quite unpertur- bed.

As a result it was decided to cable the English Football Asso- ciation as follows:-

"Reference

Chinese Soccer

་

A

The speech did not attract at- tention until the Italian Ambassa- dor denied the story and demanded An Arduous Task.

an apology from Mr. Stimson, who said that he "deeply regrets the The visit to South China will discourteous and unwarranted ut- touring team this Association conclude the work of the Commis-terance by a Commissioned Officer has decided after due trial that ion as regards its inquiry into in the United States."-Reuter's players having accepted sum of

the reasons for the decrease of American Service. money have unwittingly for-itish trade in the Far East. feited amateur status. This

But there lies before the members more arduous task of

means they cannot again play the even

in Hong Kong as all competi- classifying and correlating the re- you allow us to make new rule suts, which will take some little INSINUATIONS AGAINST BRITISH

tions here are amateur. Will

time. That work will be done in

to reinstate them as amateurs after adequate terms of suspen- Hong Kong, in order to save time

in presentation of the two reports |

sions.

As our decision has

Whilst in Hong Kong and South

HEROIN PLANT.

HOUSE.

REBUTTED IN GENEVA.

Geneva, Yesterday.

caused considerable trouble to His Majesty's Government. amongst Chinese clubs please cable reply as soon as possible." China, the members of the Mis- Sir Malcolm Delevingne to-day The Chairman said that no re- sion will interview leading busl-rebutted an insinuation made by ply had been received to this ness men, and discuss trade mat-the National Anti-Opium Associa- cable, and the matter must conse-ters and conditions with them in tion of China regarding a house quently await further develop private conversations It is un-in the British Concession in Tien- ments from Home.

derstood that they commenced tsin which was alleged to contain their labours almost immediately 3 plant to extract heroin from SCHNEIDER TROPHY, arrival. When this part of floor polish sent from France.

the work is concluded, the pre- Sir Malcolm Delevingne em- paration of reports will commence. phasised that the plant was dis- Of the two reports, one will deaf covered by the British Municipal with trade in general, and the Police, while the Chinese Mari other will have special application time Customs were responsible to the cotton trade Incidentally, for admitting the materials.

Dr. Woo Kai-seng (China) ap-

R.A.F. MAY BE ALLOWED TO ENTER.

PREMIER INTERESTED.

London, Yesterday.

certain members of the Economic

CLOUDY.

To-day's weather report from the Royal Observatory states; The anti-cyclone is central to the NW. of Korea.

Moderate to fresh monsoon prevails along the S.E. Conat of China and over the N. China Sea.

Forecast:-N.E. winds; mo- derate; generally cloudy,

Rainfall. Rainfall to 10 a.m. to-day Rainfall since Janu-

nil.

ary 1, 0.82 inch against an average of 1.86.

Temperature.

The temperature at certain specialed centres this morning

at B.o'glock wa

Hong Kong'

64

Macao

63

Pratas Island

.74

Manila

70

54

66

Chefoo Shanghai

28

88

Foochow Amoy Swatow

DEATH PENALTY,

·

PRINCESS SINKING.

CONDITION SAID TO BE LESS SATISFACTORY.

HEART ATTACKS.

London, Yesterday.

A bulletin atatea that Princesa Beatrice has had temporary at tack of heart weakness. and her condition must be regarded as less satisfactory.

Slight Improvement.

Later.

Others Increasing?

the

He hoped that the Government would be able to give some com- British Jubilant,

forting assurance that other The British community in Manila Powers diù propose to reduce, but rolled up en masse for the battle, the figures of their expenditure and were naturally jubilant aver seemed rather to indicate they their arma- Harry's success. Most of them were increasing "had their shirt on him," but the {ments. most gratifying feature of it all

Lord Farmoor, replying for the

was the big lift it gave to British Government, said that he endors prestige in the Manila sport world.

Lord Cecil's statement.

The Manila Club must have been falling again into

a

joyous place last Saturday night! The

conditions

risk of the nationa

Knowing the Manila fight crowd. of progressive armaments rivalry caused the Great who are all in all a great bunch of which sportsmen, we should think that War mus by all means be That meant disarma- A later bulletin states that the Ewin could have had all the bouts avoided. arrival at the Palace at 7 p.m. of he wanted down there, had time ment. The Conference next year must in the actual figures in H.M. the Queen of Spain has been permitted,

the skeleton scheme of the

Apparently the sport is still go- a helpful factor in the slight im- provement of the condition of ing great guns down there, as there League's Preparatory Commle- Princess Beatrice. There has was a packed house in the biggion. Without being alarmist, he could not help feeling that delay been no heart attack since noon, Stadium to see the fight. but some anxiety will necessarily Young Scott, amateur light meant risk and might bring great continue for the present.weight champion, of H.M.S. Kent, the work of Lord Cecil over many difficulties. He paid a tribute to Reuter.

also had a bout in Manila, Seating GOVERNMENT TO TAKE NO

Restless Night. ACTION.

Hermoso, of the University of the years in the cause of international Rugby. Yesterday. Philippines, at the Charity Fair disarmament. British Wireless

Service. It was stated at Kensington | tournament, So the trip will hold Rugby, Yesterday. In the House of Commons, Mr. Mission form the body of the preciated the prompt and effec- In the House of Commons to Falace this morning that Princess pleasant associations for all con-

FOUND IN MAGAZINE Beatrice had a restless night, but corned! Ramsay MacDonald at question reparato Cotton Mission,

tive British action and added that day the Home Secretary, Mr. 1. R.her strength was maintained.

Fight Described. time said that although the Gov- It is also intended to study con-

the existence of foreign Conces Clynes, atated: that the Govern Her daughter, the Queen of Describing the Ewin-Logan CHINESE TREPASSES AMONG ernment was strongly averse to ditions, and interview business signs led to delays and difficulties. ment did not propose to take any Spain, is reaching London this tangle, a sports writer in the

EXPLOSIVES. Lt. Col. R. A. Lyall, Chairman action on the recent report of the evening from Madrid-British Manila Tribune says:- perpetuating contests between men in Canton, for which purpose of the Opfum Board, emphasised Select Committee rival Government teams, it was one week will be set aside.

on capital Wireless Service.

Carlos Logan, who has long a interested in the Schneider Mission will remain here until law in China as regards procedure mendled the abolition of the death

one's opponent crumples before one ing with having trespassed at the the unsatisfactory state of the punishment. The report recom-

Charged before Mr. Låndsell at known the feeling that comes when the Central Police Court this morn Trophy that it was prepared to March 5. authorise a defence by the R.A.F.,

and penalties for illicit traffic.-penalty for an experimental period

following the impact of fist to jaw, Mount Davis forts, a Chinese sald Reuter,

of five years. --~. British Wireless ¡Service.

provided a definite undertaking

The

It is intended to lay before pro- was given immediately that the ducers and merchants at Home all necessary funds would be pri- the facts and information that vately available.-Reuter

Delay Regretted.

Rugby, Yesterday.

have been acquired, in order to en- courage them to make every effort |

OUR DEBT TO U.S.

to obtain a larger share of China's ANNUITY OF 3.6 PER CENT. ON

The Prime Minister announced trade.

CAPITAL.

MR. F. T. GOMES.

DEATH OF VETERAN EMPLOYEE OF KOWLOON DOCK.

OPIUM IN SUITCASE.

CHINESE FINED $1,440 AT KOWLOON.

1

realized what the other side feels

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like fast night, when Seaman Harry that he had gone there to look for Ewin, British Imperial Services a billiard-room boy champion middleweight, crumpled

Detective-Sergeant Meadows, said Three Chinese, Li Ying, Li Ping him up in the eighth round of the that it was not certain how the de am and Lan Chun-kom, appeared main event at the Stadium.

He was found in fendant got in. before Mr. Butters at the Kowloon

The end came suddenly for meat the magazine, where the deer had in the House of Commons that the

Magistracy this morning for having

been left open for ventilation. Government are prepared to entertained in Hong Kong by the

The death occurred at 2.15 this possession of 12 taels of non fans in the Stadium, except the fow There was a number of high explo. authorise the defence of the General Chamber of Commerce mons at question time, the Chan- Austin Road, Kowloon, of M 149, Cheung Sha Wan Road.....

Replying in the House of Com-morning, at his residence, 10,

Government prepared oplum at No. that realized that Logan was tiring Schneider Trophy by the Royal and the Chinese Chamber of Cara- cellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Francisco Theomotio Gomes, an old

rapidly toward the close of the fifth sives stored, and it was very

dangerous. frame. Ewin, from the fourth Air Force and to grant provision-merce, and will also attend

Revenue Officer Young said he

round on, was pounding away at

A box of cartridges had been an Philip Snowden, said that the an-

The Economic Mission will be

Rugby, Yesterday.”

munity.

ed a definite undertaking is given to be given by H.E. the Governor Government this financial year immediately that the necessary and Lady Peel.

Mr. Gomes, who was 10 years of funds will be available from pri-

under the debt funding agree-) vate sources so as to carry out the Upon their arrival this morning, ment represents 3.6 per cent. of age, had lived practically the whole race in the proper way.

the members were greeted by Mr. the capital outstanding at the be-of his life in Hong Kong, and was Mr. MacDonald said that a de-E. W. Hamilton, of the Colonisi ginning of the financial year. for 45 years in the servies of the putation of Members of Parlia Secretariat, Mr. M. F. Key, Scare- The corresponding figures in the Kowloon Dock.

The deepest sympathy of a large ment had assured him that the tory of the General Chamber of case of the French and Italian money required would be raised Commerce, and Mr. Chan Heung-debt settlements with the United circle of friends will go out to the priviately, so that no expense iak, Secretary of the Chineze States are approximately one miembers of his family. would fall on the public funds. Chamber

The funeral takes place at the case. Heiregretted the delay which had Hamilton has been appointed by tively-British

Valley, this evening, passing the occurred and recognised that it H.E. the Governor to co-operate vice.

Monument at 5.80; must be to the disadvantage of with the Chambers of Commerce the British entry. The Govern-in facilitating the work of the ment's decision, he added, had Misalon...

of Commerce. Mcper cent. and 7 per cent, resper Roman Catholic Cemetery, Hayed to be a new arrival, admitted the Referee Archie Lee tolled the fatal on the Spanlard's ribs. The third

Wireless

Ser-

al assistance, as in 1929, provide cfficial dinner party in their honour Inuity payable to the United Stata member of the Portuguese com went to the address, and first de- the midsection, and it was this that moved and the seal taken off, but fendant admitted being the princi- weakened Carlos to a point where it was not proved whether defen- al tenant. The other two men were the old fire and dash of his attack oant did it or not. Defendant was were decidedly Jacking. Towards Apparently under the influence of asleep in the cubicle.

Result of Search.. As the result of a search, the the middle of the eighth Logan was drink at the time of his arrest.

A line of 826, or three weeks' oplum was discovered, together busy protecting the commissary de

hard labour, was imposed.. with $400 In H.K. currency and $24 Partment, when Ewin, starting a in Chinese money, and a receipt, in short hook rather high, brought him second defendant's name, in a suit-down with a crash to the aclar plexus. Logun collapsed and stay- The second defendant, who claimed there, in a sitting position, while in time and again to beat a tattoo and fourth went to him by slight ownership of the suitcase.

His Worship discharged the third The boys were evenly matched margins, his clever defensive work and the telling blows he landed to défendant, but fined the other two as to weight, scaling at 154 aplece, the body counting in his favour. 1⁄2 TRAMWAY'S DIVIDEND.

$1,440 or six months' fall each. Logan had a distinct shade in Refusal to be Searched, reach and height, and for the first Making a total of 80 cents per the Ormskirk; division (Labour) tors of Hong Kong Tramways, charged with the unlawful posses- gan's furious rushes had the Mr. James Bell, M.P, represents share for the year 1980 the. Direc At the Central Magistracy this round or so, it looked as if this morning a Chinese woman was would be the deciding factor. Lo- He is Secretary of the United Tex Limited, will recommend a final sion of two taels of illicit opium.

Briton backstepping, and when a the Worary of the ult

dividend of 49 cents per share at She was arrested by a detective right hook glanced along his heading heavily. the forthcoming ordinary yearly in Queen's Road Central and re- and cut his left eye open, the fans Logan fought his best, but the general meeting of the Company fused to be rearched. At the settled back in anticipation of a British, star's skill and those fero to stomach and abortly to be announce

Central Polles Station, she again speedy end, clous driver all the more out of

been reached in view of special! circumstances, for they were

Mission's Personnel.

strongly averse to perpetuat The following are the members ing these contests between rival of the Mission:-- Government teams.

Sir Ernest Thompson who was Rugby Yesterday.knighted in 1929, is a shipping

Earlier News.

The Prime Minister will make merchant, of Manchester, the House of Commons debate, this Lieut-Colonel Reginald Keble afternoon, regarding the British Marcom, C.B.E., 18. & director of participation in the Schneider Lloyd's Bank, Ltda and of Belliss Trophy face.

& Morcom, Ltd. He is also chair-

it in generally anticipated that he will promise, under certain man of the British. Electric and

Allied Manufacturers - Asedefa-

Conditions the Government's adeletion. He was educated at Mark tance in hersolinels and existing borough and Trinity College, Cam

terialens

to de bridge, and served dth dating

the

tion in the Great

WhoM WAS

and of the New Zealand Product Association.

are

Other members of the Mission

Mr. Willliam A. Crowther, J.P. Mr. Louis Beale, C.RE... *Mr, F.- W, Birchenough, J.P- "Mr. E. Duxbury, Ha *ME. J. 1. Edmondson.

•Mr. George Green, Mr. Arthur Reiss Mr. Joseph Wild.

(Decretary of

STOP PRESS

London, Yesterday.ar

estimated that

Yesterday Police In the Murphy and

aster executed

men have

ftil having

derassed

ten.

The first round was Logan's, but

The fifth paw him get into action in earnest and from this point on

it was Logan who was doing the retreating The cloute to the lunch-basket were telling, and tell-

refused to be searched She had tho eplum concealed in a pad be the second, which was even, show him. Once, In the seventh, Logan ed something of Ewin's skill and succeeded in crashing his right tween her logs.

A fine of $200, or two monthe ring generalship. Logan took the lush te Ewin's jaw. He might as Jail, was imposed.

aggressive, but his rushes found well have hit him with a feather him tied in a knot by Ewin's mas The end came in the eighth,

duster, for all the effect it had.

terly elbow work.” Ewin was box- Bergeant

after Logan had been tied into Police Ing carefully and protecting him-

several kinds of Imote by the Belf

Briton's elbow work. Logan ruch- Suit Lofts perty at 214 Hon

ed and was met with Dj rush On entering the flat, ther The Briton started in the third by win. As Harzy stopped in be salked 18 gold weet watches, to the asoring repeatedly with stiff lefts (ladaches His zlabi. It travelled Pray to the midriff, He was not much about a Logh loding a charge of

uts dyhámite over. Logan's walled show was over.

of 8300, some o

to the robbery at 202)

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Celtfal on January 26,

reputedly, terr