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Cooler Weather

summer:

HITCHCO

London, To-day.

An official statement on the Showery weather is expected to Anglo-German and Anglo-Rus- bring cooler atmosphere to Hong tsian naval negotiations will prob- Kong, where the temperature soar-ably be made next Monday.

So declared the Foreign Secre ed to 92 degrees in the shade yes- terday, equalling the record for the tary, Mr. Anthony Eden, in the House of Commons yesterday in Last night, the mercury fell to 81 answer to questions on the appar- it ent breakdown in the negotiations. degrees and at 10a.m. to-day

It had earlier been officially an- The Royal Observatory report nounced that signing of the sup- states that pressure is highest over plementary technical naval agree- Ger- Japan, Manchuria and the neigh- ment between Britain and bouring seas. A depression covers many, which had originally been Tongking and a shallow trough ex-fixed for yesterday afternoon, had tends eastward to the Carolines. been postponed.

Forecast.-S. and S.E. winds, with local showers.

had risen again to 86.

moderate; f

CAPTAIN HAMBRO

Informed quarters stated that responsibility for the postponement

re-

was apparently to be attributed to Soviet Russia who had failed to ply to two questions, -of technical

ment.--Trang-Ocean.

WINS N. DORSET nature, put by the German Govern-

BY-ELECTION!

London, To-day.

Although they retained North Dor- set in a by-election yesterday, the Conservative majority was reduced from 3,184 to 543.

DYNAMITE TAKEN FROM MAGAZINE

Successful candidate was Captain A, V. Hambro, who formerly repre- sented South Dorset from 1910 to

Chan Ming, a watchman at No. 4, 1922. Yesterday he defeated the Dam, Taikoo Docks was fined $100 Hon. Borthwick, the Liberal can-or two months imprisonment by didate who was defeated in the same Mr. W. Schoheld at the Central Ma- constituency at the General Elec-gistracy to-day when found guilty tion.

Yesterday's voting resulted: Capt. A.

(Nat. C.).

Hambro

12,247

of allowing an authorised person ac- cess to a dynamite magazine, while Lai Woo was fined $25 or one month

50

Inspector Wright said that Hon. W. Borthwick (Lib) 11 704 for the same offence.

543 sticks of dynamite, 30 detonators The figures at the General Elec- and 27 coils of fuse were missing tion were:

Nat. Con Majority.

Capt. G H. Pitt-Rivers

from the magazine when inspected Sir Cecil Hanbury (C). 13,055 by Acting Sub-Inspector Mallet, yes- Hon. W. Borthwick (Lib) 9,871 terday. He had also visited the place the day previously. First de- 1,771 fendant was on duty at the time. Miss M. Whitehead (Lab) 1,360 When questioned, he told several -British Wireless.

·(Ind)........

:

Britain And Gun Calibre Problem

London, To-day.

stories, one of which was that he had seen five men open the magazine in the early hours of the morning. He had blown his whistle-but [one heard him.

no

Inspector Wright added that se

the cond defendant was asleep in hut and would have heard the whistle. The lock has ~ not ~-been found though first defendant had the

The action which Britain will key. take following the decision of the the new United States to equip American battleships with 16-inch

..

guns, was the subject of several British Crew

questions in the House mons yesterday.

of Com-

The First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. A. Duff Cooper, declared he |was not in a position at present to the make a statement but that situation was being carefully studied. Trans-Ocean.

EGYPTIAN ENVOY IN BELGRADE

Desert Ship

crew

Danzig, To-day. Seventeen members of the of the British freighter "Essex Lance," at present in harbour here, deserted the ship yesterday.

was

The men declared the shi loading cargo destined for Spain and following their last trip to Spanish waters, when the vessel was bombed, they had no desire to The Egyptian Government has return to that part of the world. decided to establish a Legation at Trans-Ocean: Belgrade, the Yugo Slav capital.

The

Cairo, To-day.

chapon will be placed

in

charge d'affaires under

One case each of dysentery (from Victoria), of enteric fever (from motivated by the New Territories) and of diphtheria

the control of the Egyptian Minister at Athens.

development.

The step wmmercial relations (from Kowloon) were reported to

between Egypt and Yugo-Slavia, the health department in the Trans-Ocean.

hours ended at midnight.

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