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ANTI-MANCHUKUO TROOPS IN FIERCE ATTACK AT NONNI RIVER

FAMOUS SCREEN

ACTOR SMILES

ON HONG KONG

Douglas Fairbanks In Search Of Big Game.

HAS TIME FOR GOLF.

Smiling and debonair, Mr. Douglas Fairbanks. famous American film uctor and pro- ducer, arrived here this morning| on the French liner, s.s. Andre Lebon from Shanghai-

BRITAIN WILL NOT DROP

CONFERENCE PLANS.

Germany's Objections Cannot Alter Nation's Will.

London, To-day. Germany's objection to Geneva as a meeting-place for the Four-Power Confer- ence, would not deter great Britain, in her endeavour to secure a conclave of the sort considered recently

to dis- eux's

European arms pro- blems, Sir John, Simon told the House of Commons yes- "terday..

"I'm glad to be. back once again on your beautiful city," were his first words when greet- ed by pressmen on the deck of the ship. "There is nothing I should like better than to bringi Mary along and spend a long vacation ure' he said. and superfliously added, "Mary Pick-[other furt, my wife, you know."

The British Government will continue to press for the conference and to overcome the German objec- tions, which are merely an- out-cropping of the mutual distrust and jealousy between Germany and France, many beljeve. -Bri- tish Wireless Service.

FUKI

ORDERS

MODERN PLANES

FOR AIR FORCE

Six Fighting Ships To Be Delivered.

ARRIVE HERE SHORTLY,

With the reorganisation of the Fukien Air Force, General Yeung Koon-yue has found it expedient to order six fighting planes of the most modern and serviceable variety, to be," delivered through a Hong Kong firm in about two months' time.

At present the. Fukien Air Force consists of only six anti- quated machines, fit only for observation work or training ships.

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On arrival here, the planes will be "transhipped im- mediately to General Yeung's base.

Great Empire INDIA'S CIVIL

Broadcast

Station Will Start On December 19,

London. To-day. The British Broadcasting Cor- poration's new Empire Broad- casting Station at Coventry will tommence operations on, Decem- ber 19.

The Postmaster-General an- nounced the date in the House of "Doug," whose golf has been Commons yesterday.

It was improving by leaps and bounds hoped, he said, that it would since he was persuaded to take serve all the Dominions and Col- part in the Open Golf Champion-onies. ship for China on October 15, will play

The precise capabilities of the a round at Deep Water station could only be determined Bay golf course to-day. "After by experiment. No contribution that, tiffin at Repulse Bay seems towards its cost was at present An attractive proposition," be being made by the overseas ter- said.

ritories it would serve. - Bri- "I'm sorry we are leaving at tish Wireless Service. 4 p.m.," he continued, "I should have liked a longer stay to look" around

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EXPECTED HERE.

The trouble with people out here

is that they live so close to its beauty that they do not appre- ciate it."

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Plans To Visit In European Cities.

General famous "Ironsides,"

Chiang Fat-fei, WASHINGTON

commander of the FEARS WORLD

an officer of Mar- shal Chiang Kai-shek's body COMPETITION guard and a soldier who has

Industries Require Protection.

MR. HOOVER'S PLANS.

Washington, To-day. President Herbert Hoover has instructed the Federal Tariff

seen fighting in. many different parts of China, is expected here to-morrow aboard the CP.S.S. Empress of Asia

General Chiang is travelling with Madanie Chiang and is con- templating an extended tour of Europe.

Commission to investigate alg- STOP PRESS

teen major Industries, to deter- mine..whether or not they are sufficiently protected, pointing out that currencies of 30 coun- tries have now depreciated from five to 55 per cent., which has reduced the standard of living in those countries and widened the comparative coat of production between them and the United States.

American Industry, with its "demand for "gold" prices, is fighting nations whose goods sell on a fallen currency basis.The outcome must be a victory for the commodity, economists Belleve

Mr. Hoover's responsibili

that

SUGAR PRICES.

London, To-day. The "Financial Times" Amsterdam correspondent says that the United Java Sugar Producers have an- nounced their willingness to reduce the price limit for superior sugars intended for the West Coast of British India in compétition British ref

DISOBEDIENCE

"

PLAN LAGGING

Government Controls The Situation.

ENTHUSIASM WANES.

London, To-day.

In the House of Commons yesterday it was stated that there had been no recent de- velopments of importance regarding the Civil Dis- obedience Movement in In- dia. Attempts had been made to revise interest in them by holding conferences and by making raids on buildings seized by the Gov- ernment to prevent their being used for unlawful pur- poses. But police had little difficulty in preventing the raiders from attaining their objectives.

All Frovinces continue to report a general improve- ment in the situation. The number of persons in gaol for civil disobedience offences has fallen from 81,194 at the end of May to 21,422 at end of August. `:

Owing to the number of Terrorist outrages during the last three months in " Bengal, however, seven addi- tional infantry battalions

SERGEANT SLAPS

PRISONER

Magistrate Watches Whole Episode.

OFFICER IS FINED.

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Lance-Sergeant Kung Chik-yan of the Hong Kong Police Force, who was seen to slap a Chinese hawker by the Magistrate, Mr E. Wynne-Jones in the Central Police Court yesterday, was brought before His Worship this morning and charged with ansault.

Defendant, who was in uniform, pleaded, in answer to the charge

I only pushed him, but I did it unintentionally."

His Worship: "Don't lie to me. I saw you, with my own eyes, strike that man over the ear with the palm of your hand. Why did you do it?"

Mrs. Tang "Huien-chix, wife of the chief of the Reconstrac= tion Board of the Kiangsu Provincial Government, is shown in the top picture snipping the silken thread across the new? Shanghai-Hangchow Motor Road and thus opening to trafic 210 Kilometers of, highway that will link two of the largest. cities of the China coast and connect Shanghai with Nanking. Below is pictured a motor car leaving the ferry "across the Whangpoo to start out poň a run over the new road.

DOLLAR RALLIES

TO 1/4 1-8.

Silver Prices Register Meteoric Rise.

Defendant explained that the After its decline from 1/4 to reason was because the man sp-1/8 last week, the local dollar rose swered out of his turn and plead-sharply this morning to 1/4 re- ed guilty to a charge against some presenting a rise of 4.

other person.

BRITAIN SILENT

ON OPINION OF

CAVALRY CORPS USED IN DASH

ON JAPANESE Onslaught Finally Repulsed.

SECOND BATTLE REPORTED.

Harbin, To-day,

The Nonni River bridge, which was the scene of an intense struggle between the Japanese and General Ma Chan-shan last year, was the objective of a sudden attack launched at 8 o'clock yester day afternoon by anti-Man- chukuo' troops, supported by cavalry..

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The Japanese counter- attacked and compelled the anti-Manchukuo forces withdraw. This was only possible. after two hours of fierce fighting, in which the loyalist forces used hand- grenades.

The Japanese" another success – yester stating that 1,500, anti Manchukua troops were ed after the latter and tacked Kosban. Th ese pursued the du bels, who are allegedla

lost 200 killed. Th

ese losses are given

ed and one wounded

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Big Orders For Britain

Business Boomed In Copenhagen.

London, Today,

LYTTON REPORT Colonel Calville, Parliamentary

Sir John Simon's Resume Of Policy.

LOANS BELIEVED SAFE.

London, To-day.

Secretary for the Overseas Trade Department, stated in the House of Commons yesterday that he had been informed by the organise that the business actually transac ed at the British exhibition at Copenhagen was in the neighbour- |hood of 21,000,000, (+

He Worship pointed out that price rising 5/16 to 18, while the Silver advanced sharply, the apot

Large orders for coal and other the man did not speak Cantonese

In the House of Commons to goods were also made, he had been and therefore had made a mistake.orward price rose 4 and is quoted

this morning at 18 1/16.

day Sir John Simon declared informed-British Wireless Ser "Defendant: I did not know `he

The London on New York cross that until the Lytton Report vice. did not speak Cantonese.

at had been considered by the Coun- rate, quoted yesterday

$.8914, this morning stands at cil of the League of Nations, it G8.384, the New York on Lon-is undesirable that the Govern- don rate being quoted at £ment should define its attitude G$$.8244 as against G$8.89 towards the Lytton report as a yesterday.

whole or towards any of its par ticular proposals.

His Worship: Why do you lie to me? You knew perfectly well. Defendant: I am telling. the

truth.

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have been stationed in dit Einstein Presents Theory That

World In Older Than Supposed

ferent parts of the Province and will remain there as long as the circumstances demand their attention. British Wireless Bervice.

MR. WANG CHING- Wei Arrives Here.

Health Is Reported Very Delicate..

Capt. Peter MacDonald, Con- servative, inquired what steps had been taken by the Govern ment to ensure payment of the Manchurian Customs Revenues, whereon foreign loan securities

Berlin. The relativity principle was were based, to the Chinese Gov- Albert Einstein, foremost of later generally accepted but not ernment.

Sir John Simon replied that physicists, presented observations content he next sought to prove the Manchurian authorities had here possibly indicating that the World is several billion years that the forces of electricity and declared their intention of pay- older than scientists previously magnetism are the same as those ing their quota towards the ser- had calculated.

vice of foreign loans. No agree- of gravitation. This idea was ment had yet been reached for Lecturing on "Conception of embodied in his "New Field carrying out this intention, Space," Einstein described the Theory," on which he worked ten though the Manchurian Govern- universe as in a state of expan-years and which he published in ment had remitted certain suma sion which possibly has been 1929,

to Shanghai, he pointed out- Reuter.

Mr. Wang Ching-wel, former progressing for some ten billion gy his relativity theory Ein- President of the Executive years. He said the birthday of stein added a fourth, time, to Yuan, arrived in Hong Kong to the earth might be linked with the three dimensions to which day aboard the 8.8. Andre the beginning of the expansion humanity was accustomed Lebon. But the state of his period.

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