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YIELDS TO MR. GAVIN JONES & PELLET STRIKES A

APOLLO WILL WIN BRITAIN

CHIEF EVENT.

Hetman for the Junk

Plate.

INDIA'S DEMANDS.

TO-DAY'S SELECTIONS.

Declaration by Moslem's' President.

PLEA FOR UNITY,

HIS CRITICS.

Round-Table Attitude

Explained.

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Bombay, Feb. G.

WORSHIPPER.

Unusual Incident at Pokfulam.

WOUNDED IN FACE.

THURSDAY'S

DOLLAR.

The closing rate of the dollar on demand on Thursday was 11%d.

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

GUNMAN'S $40,000

FUNERAL.

$20,000 mausoleum for "Wine Racket-King."

DUNLOP Reinforced Mafor Cycla Tyres

Local Branch. Pedder Bldg. Tel 24554.

U.S. WANT BIG

BATTLESHIPS.

Tonnage Essential for Strategy.

GREAT CRUISING RADIUS

A tremendous procession of 81 Mr. T. Gavin Jones, one of the

hired motor-cars, 40 of them filled with with wreaths and others European delegates to the Round-

na mourners, followed by almost Table Conference, who returned by

many private motor-cars, moved the B.. Viceroy of India to-day, de- livered

important speech

An unusual accident occurred in through the streets of the Bronx, the Pokfulam yesterday," The vic-New York, to the church of Our A fine day is alf that is re- "The British are willing to ac-at a special meeting of quired to make the concluling cept 80 per cent. of India's de- Bombay European business com-tim was a Chinese named Wong Lady of Mt. Carmel and then to operations, indicated to-day that day of the second Extra Race inund forthwith," declared M. munity in defence of his attitude, Fong (52), who lives in Pokfu-Woodlawn Cemetery.

Shaukat Ali, presiding over the and that of his colleagues, at the lam village. Meeting a success.

Conference on the transference All-India Moslem Conference.

[By Wombat."]

New Delhi, Yesterday.

will be found in the best of gallop-accept the Moslems' demands. ing order, and the fields promise "Let the Indian States and Hin- to be of satisfactory strength.

The first New Aggregate Stakes, six furlongs, promises to be a good thing for Apollo after his first day's success, and the short distance should suit this fast pony, to a nicely.

of responsibility at the Centre.

pean community in which were

EUROPEAN WARDER

ACQUITTED.

Returns From Home to Meet Theft Charge.

THE TRIANGLE AGAIN!

Georgo Carter, a European Pri- with the theft of $200 and a suit sons Warder, who stood charged

case belonging to Mrs. Kesina Axe,

the

Washington, Yesterday. Admiral Pratt, Chief of Naval the Navy Departinent were care A chance vialtor might have sup-fully considering the question of posed this was the funeral of the tonnages and gun calibres, He was engaged in worshipping great and good man, who had died

It is gathered unofficially that was recently acquitted by the Ad. If no more rain falls the course He hoped that Hindus would now He began by expressing anxiety the graves of his ancestors on the peacefully in the fullness of his the Navy Department still conditional District Judge, Mr. J. L.

above Kai Lung Wan years. Actually the body in the siders that battleships of 35,000 MacFall, in Penang, says to engender goodwill and under-! hill dus and Moslems put their heads standing between his fellow coun- (Chicken Basket Bay), when he solid bronze coffin with allver drop tons are essential for American Straits Echo. together and present a united de- trymen and other communities and was struck on the right side of sides, which cost $15,000 was that strategy, owing to the combin among the Euro- the face by a pellet from a shot of Joseph Catania, aged 29, better tion of striking power and great india, both of gun. The firer of the gun was Au known in the underworld as "Joe cruising radius. Reuter's Ameri- mand to the British people," he to secure unity

да the can Service. urged,

30 necessary for the Keng-lau, of the Tung Lee Ship the Baker," whose reign The Begum Mohamed Ali,

building Co., 932, Canton Road, Wine Racket King" was terminat- chairwoman of Committee, appealed to Moslem

the Reception future of India.

"uur. Gavin Jones pointed out that Kowloon, who is the holder of a ed abruptly by a burst of buck women to discard the veil and the Conference had met not merely game licence and was out game shot from the sawn-off shot guns

of a party in ambush. to register preconceived views but; shooting in Pokfulam. enter public life.

The Viceroy later called an in-to explore the possibilitica of arri- day, will have an easy task to formal conference of prominenting at a consensus of agreement be informed and they removed the in Chicago, by which the under win the Junk Bay Plate if he is Moslem leaders who are now in tween all parties in India and in wounded man to the Government

The conversations were Britain and to arrive at decisions, Civil Hospital..

in the best interests of their com- Gleneagles will be a big danger private and lasted for 90 minutes.munity and of India as a whole. in this event, as he was galloping-Reuter. when he finished second to Zorhan on the first day of the present meeting.

Hetman, who received a severe drubbing from Apollo on Satur-

not started in the big event. Dihi.

The handicap events present a very formidable array of talent which will be hard to pick from, and a wide range of betting will: be seen in these events.

Mr. Alves, the handicapper, has given two ponies in the Canterbury Park Handicap the light weight of 110 lb. each, to carry which is, I believe, the lightest weight ever carried in an official race

on our local course.

SELECTIONS.

1st Race:--

Evening Star,

Fritz.

Atmoritz.

2nd Race:~

Helman. Gleneagles. Boxing Eve.

3rd Race:-

Fritillery. Tunney, Bridge Hall.

4th Race:-

Bay of Bellingham.

Twilight.

Groombridge.

5th Race:-

Sitting Bull. King's Bounty. Gay Crusader.

6th Race:-

JIL

Marquis Hall Christmas Chimes.

7th Race:--

Paul Pry.

Eros.

Nippy.

8th Race:es

Redskins.

Pacemaker.

Vamoose.

9th Race:- Apollo.

'King's Bounty.

Boxing Eve.

· 10th Race -

Mr. Heard's Mount. Tango.

Mount Elburz.

11th Race:-

Cyclamen Bay.

Wonderful Stag.

Daylight Eve.

CAR IN FLAMES.

race

KING UNWELL.

the He expressed surprise nt attitude adopted, in certain quar- ters, towards him and his colleagues in regard to the matter of the transfer of responsible Government to a Central Legislature, and de- clared that, on this question, he had been always consistent in his views.

The West Point Police were

The funeral of Dion O'Banion

NOVELIST DIES IN PENURY.

world has gauged tributes to is Willy's Quips, Puns and

departed leaders, paled beside that of Catania. Dominick Scocozza, the chief of the four

undertakers who were required to

Personalities.

:--

Willy, the critic and gay novelist,

supervise the rites, declared "Ita brilliant figure of artistic Parle

contemplated separating

from his

When hearing was resumed in the morning, Mr. C. R. Samuel who ap peared for the accused with Mr. E. W. Gibson, moved that the ac cused be discharged and sequitted as the prosecution had failed to es tablish the charge against him.

His Honour, however, called upon the accused to make hie defence.

Met In 1928.

.Accused stated that he was 3 RUPERT BROOKE,

He WAB a much bigger funeral than before the War, died at the age of married man and had a child. STATUE UNVEILED ON A

Two first met complainant towards the O'Banion's. It cost all of $40,000, 71, of an apoplectie attack. GRECIAN ISLAND.

This estimate did not include the and a half years ago he was knock-end of 1928 at time when his wife $20,000 mausoleum in which the led over by a motor-car, and he never was away in Ipoh. A year later he gangster's body will be placed as really recovered from the results of LITERATURE'S HÒMAGE.

soon as it is completed, but only the accident. the elaborate floral tributes, the Willy, whose real name was Henry Island of Skyros, Yesterday. The entire population, pictures- ornate coffin, and the long proces-Gauthier-Villars, was the son of the well known publisher of scientific resolution of the European Asso-quely dressed in native costume, slon of motor-care.

His age of Forty detectives mingled with works of that name. ciation at its meeting in August turned out at dawn to meet the the crowd lest Catania's friends celebrity coincided with that when last, proposing that no respon- steamer bringing M. Venizelos,

He obtained leave in January, sibility should be transferred to a the Greek Foreign Minister, the should seek summary revenge on all French men of letters and art his assassins. They deftly patted were out "epater les bourgeois." Central Legislature unless and until British Minister in Athens, and

joining the He quickly made a name for him- 1980, and was due to Ball on May London, Yesterday.

puns, and per- 31 together with his wife and child. H.M. the King is suffering an all-India Federation could be number of writers of internation- the hips of all men

al distinction who attended the procession, but no weapons were self by his quips,

sonalitica. found.

He fought several He did not tell Mrs. Axe that he was from a slight cold and though not evolved.

The Indian States.

ho feared she might impressive ceremony of the un- confined to bed is, as a precaution,

While grief was manifest in duels: that, too, belonged to the leaving as

create a scene. The

At that time sho Conference veiling of a memorial to the poet Round-Table keeping to his room in Windsor

tives heard no reproaches against But Willy not only had a biting had told him that she was "fed up" Castle. His Majesty was unable opened with a declaration from the Rupert Brooke, in the form of a walling and tears, listening detec epoch, to attend Divine Service, but Indian States that they wore willing nude igure of the poet inscribed the murderers, a point on which pen and a witty eye; he was also with Penang and wanted to go back She suggested to a conspiracy of a musical critic of serious work, to. Shanghai.

though his criticisms in "Gil Blas" him that he should accompany her were wrapped up under the alluring and he agreed although he did not

mean to do go. title of "Lettres a l'Ouvreuse." Flat-Brimmed Top Hat.

SUFFERING FROM A SLIGHT

COLD IN THE HEAD.

KEEPING TO HIS ROOM. ·

carried out a certain amount of to official business.--Reuter.

DROP IN SILVER.

NOT A CHIEF CAUSE OF WORLD

DEPRESSION.

New York, Yesterday. The drop in silver is not among

fle recalled his amendment. to a

federate with British India in Greek and English to "A noble This changed the whole situation, friend of Greece and immortal there seemed which had been viewed from a dif- poetry."

ferent angle to that taken by the It is the work of the Greek! Simon Commission and the Gov-sculptor, Michel Tombros, and ernment of Indiu dispatch and the was erected through the efforts European community In August of an international committee comprising 200 European and last.

Sir T. B. Sapra, who was fellow-American literary men.-Reuter ed by Lord Reading and other'

[Skyros is an island belonging speakers from India, showed they

group, to the east of Euboea. The population is 4,000.]

silence.

JUMP TO STREET.

SEQUEL TO AN ALLEGED FIGHT.

the important causes of the world were unanimous in their desire for to Greece, and ts in the Sporades to the Government Civil Hospital"Claudine a Paris,"

depression, according to the Bankers G. M. P. Murphy and Company, who suggest that a rise in price might cause China more hardship than had resulted from the drastic decline.

White House Denial.

PRINCES IN RIO.

RETURN FROM TRIP TO

the transfer of responsibility.

He then agreed with Lord Read. ing and accepted the proposal that substantial measure of respon- sibility should be transferred to the legislature, provided that a really workable constitution was evolved

SAO PAULO. In which the Indian States would be Legislature Was jincluded, that a

RECEIVED BY MINISTERS, Washington, Yesterday. created in which all interests would In connection with Mr. Arentz's be represented and that the stable statement, officials at the White body politic could prevail.

Rio de Janeiro, Yesterday. The Prince of Wales and Prince House categorically deny that Also, provided that all necessary President Hoover intends to safeguards were introduced into the George arrived here to-day on summon a conference of adminis-constitution, and that constituent their return from a trip to the tration officials, as he feels that States in British India were es States of Sao Paulo and Minas- the United States has little inter-tablished. This statement was geraes and were received by a re- est in the problem apart from its made with the full approval of his presentative of President_Vargas and his Ministers. Reuter's bearing on world trade. Reu- colleagues and advisers.

American Service. ter's American Service.

Position of Isolation. Proceeding Mr. Gavin Jones said

that to have taken a non possumus crease. The general death rate attitude, and to have opposed the was greatest at the two extremes of transfer of responsibility under life and lowest among young adults. any conditions, would have laid These adverse conditons were re-them open to the charge of oppos- aponsible for an increase in the in-ing on All-India Federation. fantile death-rate from 65 In 1928- To have done so, he, declared, the lowest recorded-to 74 per 1,000 would not only have been unstates- live births..

manlike but futile, and would have

HORRORS OF 'QUAKE

OUTBREAK OF RABIES IN

STRICKEN CITY.

LOOTERS SHOT.

Managua Yesterday.

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wife and in fact a Deed of separa-' He wont to live tion was drawn. with complainant, who knew he was a married man, and spent $250 out of his salary of $870 on

house- keeping.

Sold Her Car.

He married a daughter of Colonel Colette, and she, under his tuition, On May 30, he slept at complain- The began to write, but called herself ant's house in Burmah Road.

day he Hold her by her father's name. The Claudine following The West Point Police removed series "Claudine

for her PEcole," car

and handed "Claudine en her the full

proceeds there- and Colette of when he returned home at on Saturday & Chinese named Chu Menage" by Willy

Tau-chai (27)

from auffering

An hour later he left fascinated and scandalised Paris. about 3 p.m. injuries to his face and body,

in Everyone saw Claudine the the house saying he was going on The man, who lives at 5, Portland portrait of Colette and that of Willy "night duty" and wont to the Pin Street, Yaumati, was stated to have

in Maugis. When their marriage (Kung Hotel where his wife and The boat was jumped into the street from the was dissolved Colette revealed her child were staying. second floor of 16, Belcher Street, self as what she still is one of the due to sail at midnight, and he went He did Kennedy Town, in the course of a finest writers in France.

on board at about 11 p.m. 1ght in the house.

The War destroyed Willy's world. not go to the complainant's house The Plice are detaining four men He had been a striking figure in it that night nor did he steal any of in connection with the affair.

The suit case produc- A loaded revolver and a knife with his black, pointed beard and her money.

hat that he cd belonged to him. It was bought the flat-brimmed top were found in the flat when the designed himself; but when the for complainant and used to be in

War began and after it ended no his quarters. jone wanted eccentricity of person

He was first informed of the or hat any more than they wanted Willy's peculiar type of caustic wit charge against him by the Colonial Mont of the fighting years Willy Office about three months before he Later he Bailed from England. spent on the Riviera, contributing

was informed that a warrant had small things to small local papera. Munich, Feb. 23.

His return to Paris spelt for him been out for his arrest and that his avalanche disasters,

wished to come and meet the costing seven

lives, are reported poverty and insignificance, and he passage would be booked for him if

who had been one of the kings of

He replied that he was. charge. from various parts of the Alpine the boulevards and the Quartier districta.

Police visited it.

MORE ALPINE DISASTERS.

Seven Killed in Series of Avalanches.

Three new

After further evidence accused. was acquitted and discharged.

A party of skiers was overtaken Latin spent his last years in an in- propared to meet the charge.

effectual struggle against completo by an avalanche while leaving the want. Brandkopfsattel; Fortunately other sklers were immediately at hand and rescued six out of the seven) men buried.

Another avalanche, thundering CAN I GET A BATH NOW?

placed them in a position of barren An outbreak of rables has add- Attention is drawn, to the ex. Isolation..

ed to the horrors being experienc-down from the Patcherkofel near cessive mortality of illegitimate He added that, apart from that, ced by the refugees in the stricken Innsbruck, buried five skiers, of children at this age, the rate per it was the only statesmanlike con- city. No sooner had the miser-whom three were killed, while one A Salmson motor car was com- million live births being 9,691 clusion, considering the unanimityable victims of the earthquakeman succeeded in extricating him- pletely burned out on the Shek-D against 1,288 for legitimate Infants of the Indian delegates; Lord Read-been assured that they were not self and one woman, who had Road on Saturday night.

while the rates from violence and Ing's carefully considered change going to become the prey of ban broken her logs. It was being driven to town by neglect at birth were 6,812 and 98 of outlook, supported by the Lib-dits from the hills, than rables Finally, in South Tyrol, an Mr. C. T. Simpkon at about 8.30 respectively.

eral Party delegates, and presum appeared, and is threatening to avalanche swept over the huts of a p.m., when the lights suddenly fall- Deaths from cancer numbered ably by the Labour Party delegates, spread, through the scarcity of small settlement in the Sarnol Alps.

56,896, the highest number record-and in the face of Lord Peel's wil-water and Intense beat,

Here, five men

were saved out of Stopping the car, Mr. Simpkoned for any one year.

lingness to consider the same. Patrols are scouring the streets eight who disappeared over o pre. got out to try to fix the lights. As The birth-rate was 16.8 or 0.4 per 15

shooting all the dogs they see, and cipice. ворд as he opened the bonnet 1,000 less than in 1928, and was the EMPTY CRADLES. flames shot out and he was nat lowest recorded since the establish.

ed.

the flames enveloped the car.

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are followed by lorries, which col- An entire family, consisting of let the carcases and bury them, father, mother and dve little chil

able to jump out of the way before ment of civil registration.

It is stated that the fall in birth MORE MARRIAGES BUT BIRTH Sharp shots are therefore ringing dren, were buried under the snow RATE LOWEST ON RECORD. out all the time, but they do not but, after hours of strenuous effart,

always indicate the despatch of were extricated and revived. The Registrar-General's statisti- animals, as it is reported that column of 70 men is still engaged

Marines have 80 for summarily in rescue operations.

CONSTABLE AND A CHICKEN.

As the result of a report made

rates in England and Wales "is the

more serious since the position of this country in relation to that of

TRAIN WRECKED. OVER SIXTY CASUALTIES IN RUSSIA

others was already a low one before cal Review of England and Wales shot 20 looters. to the Police by a coolle named Laf the War, while to-day. Its lower for 1929 dlaciossa many interesting. Kam, an Indian Police Constable than any above England and Wales, and surprising facts.

The mortality rate of 18.4 per has been placed under arrest on a Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. charge of larceny. The marriage rate 15.8 wab 1,000 of the population was 16 per According to the coolle, he was the highest since 1921, from which cent. above that for 1928, and was waiting for the ferry at Hungbom it is "assumed that the burden and much the highest since mortality when, he alleges, he saw the cone- responsibility of marriage under was swollen in 1918 by the great in- table take a chicken from a large modern conditions presses no more fluenza pandamic" The increase, basket which he (the coolie) was heavily upon the newly wedded than it is stated, was unusually sudden. engaged to carry, places it in it did 20 or 30 years ago, notwith Influenta, with 129,084 victime; Ten persons have been idlled smaller basket, and hide it behind standing the prevalling economic comes first among the causes of and 51 injured through train

death chiefly responsible for the in wreck in Challabinak-Reuter mearby: Hawker's stall:

depression.

Moscow, Saturday,

A

Reports reaching here from the Austrian, Swiss and Bavarian Alps atate that 48 hours has been the heaviest for the past 40 years.

In addition to Zermatt, dozens of places (including Andermatt and Cortina Dampezzo) are now com pletely cut off from the world, In Andermatt a company of Swiss Infantry reservists is snowed up.A The Schoellenen railway Une was partly destroyed by avalanches.

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