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CABLES.

LATEST CABLEN. {THROUGH RIUTER'S AGENCY. I'

'DEATH OF MICHAEL COLLINS.

AMBUSHED AND SHOT DEAD.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24TH, 1992.

BRITISH TRADE DEPRESSION LIFTING. LONDON IRON AND STEEL EXCHANGE REPORT.

LONDON, August £end.-" Orders arriving from abroad, parti cularly for the iron and steel industries, point to some lift in the trade depression. The first effects of the Autumn demand is already being felt and a distines im-

DUBLIN, August 22nd. It is officially stated that Michaelprovement in the amount of business was Collins has been shot dead in an ambush reported at yesterday's meeting of the

London Iron and Steel Exchange. Bour Bandon ;; STIRRING MESSAGE TO THE ARMY.

LONDON, August end. The Chief of the Irish General Staff has addressed the following wisenge to the

army:-

Dundee Arms have received orders for five million grain-bags from Hussin and a steady improvement is reported in Bel- fest Ship-building. This year's output

THE QULTIVATED PEARL, CANNOT BE DISTINGUISHED FROM NATURAL GEM

is already greater than that of 1921 and the building or reconditioning of a rum- Stand calmly to your post, then gber of vessels whereon work, was suspend- brave and undaunted to your work. Let

ed. has been recently ordered. na cruel act of reprisal blemish your Every dark hour that bright honour. Michart Collins met since 1916. svenied but to steel that brave strength of his and temper his gap bravery. You are left, each inheritors of that strength and bravery. To rach of you falls his on finished work. No darkness in this hour and no loss of comrade, will daunt you at it.

EXPRESSIONS OF HORROR AND INDIGNATION,

PARIS, August ad According to a report communicateľ to the Academy of Sciences, M. Boutan, Professor of the Faculty of Science at Bordeaux. after a careful investigation of pearls cultivated by the Mini Mote method, has come to the conclusion that it is impossible to distinguish between the natural and the cultivated gem.

Neas of the tragic death of the Irish Commander-in-Chief is only beginning to BAVARIAN COALITION

latest editions of the morn- Appear in the

LEADERS.

Baulis, August-2nd

ing newspapers.. It was received with ENDORSE BERLIN NEGOTIATIONS.. horror and indignation in the limited circle which it had previously reached und it was felt that the removal of Ireland's foremost constructive statesman casts a deeper shadow over the already dark Irish situation.

THE DANGERS OF LEADERSHIP.

Though the stirring but restrained mes sage to the army indicates that ethers are ready to take up the burdens and dangers of leadership, which had fallen so suddenly on his and Mr. Griffiths shoulders, therm is no doubt these dangers are not small

Saturday night's determined bombing and fusillading near Dublin, of the car

in which Mr. Collins was supposed to be, showed clearly the desperate state of mind into which their crushing defeat had plunged the extremists.

It is reported that aimilar designs are entertained against other Ministers, while guerrilla warfare is becoming more in tense during the last day of two.

FURTHER FATAL AMBUSHES.

There were five ambushes on Monday and several yesterday, in which a number

were killed and wounded, showing that at any rate some sections of the Irregulars are determined to persist in the struggle: to the last and not shrink from the most!

drapiorate measurta.

Yesterday's fatal ambush of Mr. Michael- Collis occurred in or near Bandon; a anal market town in the south of County Cork, but details are still lacking.

DE VALERA'S STATEMENT TO HIS

FOLLOWERS 1:

LONDON, August, 2nd. The Morning Post's Dublin correspon dent, telegraphing before the death of Mr. Michael Collins was known, says there is reason to believe that De Valers is about to issue a statement to his fol- lowers, amounting to an admission that the attempt to establish a republic has definitely failed. It was understood that

U.S.A. STRIKE SITUATION. COAL STRIKE SETTLEMENT PROGRESS.

New Yoxx, August 22nd, A message from Chiengo says the conl strike in the Illinois district has been

FAR EASTERN CABLE A DAYLIGHT ROBBERY AT EMPIRE EXHIBITION (1924)

NEWS.

(THEDUGE, EEUTER'S AGENCY.] PEKING GOVERNMENT'S' THREE FLANKS.

STATUE SQUARE,

A SUSPICIOUS STORY A sensational robbery is reported to have taken placa in broad daylight, on Tuesday afternoon, in Statue Square. A

settled on the basis of the 1993 wage scale. STATEMENT BY DR. WELLINGTON Chin e rep.rts that he was hold up by

A settlement has also been practically agreed upon in Indiana, while progress in the negotiations in reported from other districts,"

PARTIAL SETTLEMENTS IN RAIL-

WAY STRIKE.

KOO.

two armed men as he alighted from tran-car outside the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, and robbed of 87,000. The victim of the robbery was stabbed twies in the left arm. The two bighway

Peixo, August 3rd. Dr Wellington Koo, interviewed by Reuter's correspondent, said that during Wang Chung Huai's illness, he (Dr, men got safely away CINCINNATI, August 22nd. The Baltimore and Ohio Railway has Wellington Koo) had been informed that come to a settlement with its clerks and he was expected to preside at Cabinot freight-handlers by a small increase in meetings, but this did not mean taking

The Union Pacific Railway has ages.

over the duties of Premier, ̈ also petțied.

U.S.A. STEEL WORKERS

WAGES.

INCREASE OF 20 PER CENT.

NEW YORK, August 22nd- The United States Steel Corporation Announces a 20 per cent. increase in the wages of its employés

The lending independent steel mills of the country are following the Corpora tion's cxample.

GERMAN REPARATIONS.

GERMANY SAYS FRENCH PRO-"

POSALS IMPOSSIBLE.

BERLIN, August 22nd. According to the Tageblatt, Dr. Hermes, Minister of Finance, told Sir John Brad bury and M. Mauclere that the pledging of the State forests on the left bank of the Thine and the State mines in Rubr was out of the question. SOVIET SECRET.

*** JUSTICE.” RIGA, August 22nd.

The Soviets have secretly removed con- demned Social Revolutionaries from gaol at Moscow and refuse to disclose their

bereabouts.

The Government's three main planks weza Firstly, the completion of the constitution; secondly, the promotion of reunification; thirdly, annncial reorgani

sation.

Both Government and Parliament were equally anxious for the completion of the constitution, which would include the provincial system and deüne the rights and privileges of provinces, and on the other hand the authority and rights of the Central Government." REUNIFICATION NOT LIKELY AT PRESENT.

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As regards reunification, few people thought it could be achieved quickly and the Government would be satisfied with any definite step marking substantial progress. It seemed there were grounds for hoping for that at least.

A DELEGATION TO INTERVIEW DR. SUN.

Yesterday's police report contains the following account of the robbery

Lam Shu, No, 78, Connaught Road Central, reports that at 15-30 hours on the 22nd he jumped off a tram-car at Statue Square to pick up his sun helmet which had blown As he alighted he was accosted by two men, one of whom was armed with a revolver and the other with a dagger. The man with the dag ger stabbed him twice, whilst the other man took $7,000 in notes from the man's inside pocket. The robbers made off in the direction of the Praga. The victim proceeded to Dr. Ma Luk's in Queen's Road Central, where his injuries were attended to. He was subsequently taken to hospital."

Yesterday morning & Day Preis repre- scatative made further enquiries into the robbery and was informed at No. 73. Cons naught Road Central, which is a Chinese Boarding House, that no man of the name of Lam Shu lived there. A few further details were, however, gleaned from Dr. Ma Luk, who stated that the man was not seriously injured. The two wounds on the left arm were superacial, being about three inches long, and about an eighth of an-inch deep. The man's account of the robbery, as told to the Doctor, varies a little from that of the police report: It was in effect, that after he had alighted from the car a man approached him, and, Asked whether-Dr. Sun Yat Sen would pointing to his bulging pockets waid, "I be taken into serious consideration in am a detective. I want to search you." this connection, Dr. Wellington Koo The victim pulled out the parcel from an pointed out that President Li Yuan Hung inside pocket, opened it up, stating at had 'scat a delegate to interview Dr. the same, time, that it only contained Sun and the Government's efforts would bank notes. The robber snatched at the be directed towards reaching an agrement parcel and in the struggle for possession between all parties and leaders' through-The drew a dagger with which he stabbed the man on the arm to force him to let go the notes. In possession of the parcel the robber made off towards the Pray Before the victim could raise the alarm another man, armed with a revolver ap- peared on the scene, pointed the revolver at him and told him to keep quiet and not to turn his head. After giving the other robber with the lost a good start he also disappeared towards the Praya.

The Bavarian Cabinet coalition leaders have endorsed the result of the Berlin SOVIET MINISTERS TO VISIT out the country, negotiations, mentioned in yesterday's cable messages.

EARLIER CABLES,

COUNTY CRICKET. ·

RIG SCORE BY SUTCLIFFE.

LONDON; August and.. At the Oval, Yorks led Surrey on the first innings, Sutcliffe scoring 2.

Despite the above result, Surrey still lead.]

At Dover, Kent led Lancashire on the first innings For Kent, Hardinge scored 100, Woolley 155, and Seymour 18s not

-out-..

At Birmingham, Middlesex beat War- For wick by an innings and 113 runs. the winners, Hearne scored 221 not out, while Bates secred 149 for Warwick.

At Worcester, the home county led Sussex on the first innings.

At Chesterfield, Derby beat Northants In their first innings the by 63 runs. losers were dismissed for 74 Bestwick capturing seven wickets for 37, while in their second they were all out for 145, Storer obtaining seven wickets for 26.

At Bournemouth, Hants best Somerset hy four wickets.

At Cheltenham, Gloucester beat Essex by six wickets,

At Nottingham, the home county de feated Leicester by an innings and 29

TUDS.

OBITUARY,"

SIR THOMAS BROCK.

Losnox, August Mad." The death is announced of Sir Thomas Brock, the neademician.

LONDON,

PARIL, August ad.

A message from Brussels says M. Ghi- cherin, with a number of colleagues, has reached the Germano-Belgian frontier,

en rate to London.

SOLICITORS SUE A CLIENT,

THE COURT FINDS AGAINST THEM.

Mesors. Deacon, Looker, Deacon & Harston brought an ection against Yua Sun, a motor car driver, in the Summary Court, before the Puisne Judge (Mr. J. R. Wood), yesterday morning, to recover $10, the amount alleged to have been agreed por as costs in respect of Summary Jurisdiction action,

Mr. H. C. Macnamara represented the plaintiff firm and the defendant was un- represented."

M

Mr. S. R. Carreem, who is employed by Messrs. Deacon's as clerk and interpreter,

· UNPLEASANT FINANCIAL

POSITION.

The question of financial reorganisa- tion and the immediate financial position was not pleasant. Funds were required to carry on until additional revenues were received. Parliament had to be main tained, the police and gendarmerie paid and salaries of oficial departments met. :' PEKING CABINET STAFF ON STRIKE.

ABREARS OF SALARIES.

Dr. Mo Luk said he believed the man Lam Shu lived in the Wanchai district and that he was under the impression be was a shroff in the employ of a Chinese Firm.

THE OBJECTS OF THE EXHIBITION. Preparations are well-advanced for the British Empire Exhibition to be held maar London from April to October, 1924. Hongkong will occupy a section of the Exhibition and a joint sub-committee of the General and Chinese Chambers of Com merce has begun to draw up a scheme for Tepresentative exhibit of Hongkong and its resources, so that the atay-at-home Britisher may be able to visualise the most Eastern Colony of the Empire.

The objects of the Exhibition arerie. (a) To find fresh sources of national wealth in the development and utilisa tion of the raw materials of the British Empire.

(b) To foster inter-imperial trade and find fresh world-markets for Dominion and Home-products.

(e) To make the different parts and peoples of the British Empire better known to each other and to focus public attention in Great Britain on the illimit- able possibilities of the great Dominion. varacas" as well-as of the. Colonies and Dependencies.

HOME GOVERNMENT SUPPORT,

By a special Act of Parliament HM Government are guarantors of the Exhibi- tion for £100,000. The Government ure represented on the Executive Council and Finance Committee. “

DOMINION SUPPORT.

The Prime Ministers and other repre sentatives of the Dominions and of India, who attended the recent Imperial Con- ferenco, promised that no effort should be incking on their part to ensure the fullest participation of the Government and coun- tries they represented. India and South Africs have already voted large sums in connection with their exhibits, and ne- gotiations are proceeding with the other Dominions of their participation on India has applied for a similar scale. 110,000 sq. ft. of space for her Farilion.. Free space will be provided for the Overseas Dominions for the erection of their own Pavilions, over which they will have control, subject to the general regula- tions.

: PROFITS.

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The control of the exhibition is vested in the hands of an Executive Council repre sentative of the leading banking, industrial and commercial interests of the country. The exhibition is not run for private profit. Any surplus of revenue over expenditure will be devoted to some public object.

THE BITE.

Wembley Park, where the Exhibition will be held; is an ideal site from its natural advantages and its accessibility from Lea- don and the Provinces. It consists of 120 acres of timbered and undulating land. The freehold of the park, and óf some ad- ditional ten acres adjacent, has been no- quired for the purposes of the Exhibition,

ACCESSIBILJEZ

No exhibition-site has ever enjoyed-such

PEXING, August 22nd.

THE BORNEO COMPANY. It is semi-officially stated that Wang

An issue of 400,000 Seven-sand-a-half Chung Hani will no longer attend to the affairs of the Premiership, and it is pre- dieted that Dr. Wellington Koo will be per cent Cumulative Preference shares appointed acting Premier. Meanwhile of the Borneo Company, of £1 each a remarkable traffic facilities as those which the Cabinet staff is striking, owing to par, has been placed by Messrs. Eelbert, Wembley Park affords. Weinbley H

Wags & Co., Ltd. The present capital of a station on the Great Central Railway, non-payment of salaries.

the company is £600,000 in Ordinary is at the southern entrance to the shares of £1 such. The original capital Exhibition, while Wembley Park, on the was a quarter of a million sterling. In Metroplitan, is at the northern entrance. 1890 this was increased to £300,000, the Wembley Station on the L and NW. additional £60,000 shares being issued at Kailway and the Bakerloo Tube are close

BANDIT OUTRAGES IN KORTH “OFIKA,

gave evidence that he received instructions EUROPEAN WOMEN ILL-TREATED a premoum of 100 per cent, and in 1920 to the Exhibition grounds. The Exbibi

on behalf of the other defendant.

it was raised to £300,000 by the capitali

AND WOUNDED. from defendant and another man. They consented to judgment and went into

sation of reserves and undivided profits. tion, is also "in direct tramway communic Chambers to arrange instalments. The

PEKINO, August 22nd.

The net profits of the company show from tion with Finchley and Hampstead on other defendant absconded after judgment According to various reports, 3,000 288,401 in 1912 to 2171,264 in 1920, and the North; Paddington and Willesden on bad been given. The agreed charge was Bandite, formerly General Chao Ti's the average annual dividend on the the West; Hammersmith, Putney, Acton and $10 to each man.

troops, attacked Shuanchow, to the west Ordinary shares to March 31st, 1921, was Ealing in the South. These trans pass" Defendant denied having given instruc- ward of Loyang on August 17th and such a little over twenty per cent. The new within a few yards of the southern entrance. ed the township. They carried off preferezce shares will be entitled to a Omnibus services will run to both en tions. The solicitor who appeared (Mr. Lenoir, 4. French employé of the Langhai and cumulative preferential dividend of trances along a number of new routes, Mactamara) did not appear for him, but railway, also a Greek named Michael and seven and a half per cent. per annum, and now main roads sanctioned by the ill-treated and wounded Me, and Mlle. which will be payable in February and Ministry of Transport will provide Sidot, wife and daughter of a French August. They will rank preferentially exceptional facilities for motor traffic. employé.

on capital account, and holders will have the right to convert any of them at any time during the next ten years from Two main-line stations are in immediate October 1st, 1999, into a like amount of proximity to the Exhibition. These are Ordinary shares, Registered in 1856, the the Great Central Station, Wembley Hill, company's activities consist of the work and the London and North Western Station, ing of extensive teak forests in Upper Wembley. All visitors from stations of Siam and the carrying on of a general the systems of these railways will thus be trading and agency business. Included in the company's assets is a herd of 400

Existing connections further admit of olephants According to the latest THE CORONET'S NEW FILM.

figures available, the assets without cal through trains to one or other of these.. culating anything for goodwill, amounted stationa being run from the provinces by "If it fails to get 'em there isn't a07to £2,315,853, and the liabilities to all the main line

The Puise Judge remarked that it appeared to him that Mr. Carreem had received instructions from a crowd of people. He had taken their name and told them it would be #10.”.

Mr. Macnamara replied that this was not 99. It was usual to charge $10 for these cases.

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The late Sir Thomas Brock, R:A., who was 74 years of age, was the sculptor of His Honour raid there might have been the Queen Victoria Memorial, on the unsome misunderstanding at the time. veiling of which he was knighted. He was not at all satisfied. Judgment would was awarded the honorary freedom of be eutered for defendant.. Worcester, his native city, in 1P13.and"the following year was elected President of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.] THE BETRAYAL OF PORT

ARTHUR.

"JAPAN PREPARED TO FURNISH INFORMATION.

REFORM IN CENTRAL MARKET.

BANDITS DEMAND A RANSOM The bandits have since announced that they will release M. Lenoir on payment of $3,000 and four revolvera. The French Legation has made vigorous representa tions to the Government."

THE PROVINCES."

able to travel direct to the ground.

DURATION OF THE ZIHIBITION

use of making any more emotional picture £1,130,442. The company has branches in country, systems of the dramas is what an American film ro Jara, Singapore, Eangkok, and agencies The above facts show that no site could. viewer wrote about The Woman in His or representation in Penang, Ipoh, be more accessible from the provinces, and House which comes to the Coronet Sourabaya and Samarang, a tea estate in statistics prove that at the last great ex- 23. LESSON TO STALL-HOLDER. to-day and will be screened there during Sumatra, brickworks in Singapore, new Libition held in London 40 per cent, of the

the rest of the week. He considers it as wharves and warehouses in Bangkok, and total visitors were provincial. No previous Fuspector Fred. Fisher, of the B.P.CA., big an emotional knockout" sa East a rubber estate and gold mine in exhibition has enjoyed such main-line, com- prosented another market stall-holder for Lynn" was and reckons that nobody who Sarawak. Three directors of the communications cruelty, before Mr. B. W. Hamilton at sees it need be ashamed if caught rub-pany are also directors of the Bank of On all the love lines, from North- LONDON, August 22nd.

the Police Court yesterday morning. The bing his eyes with his handkerchief long England-Mestra. G. W. Henderson, E. West, East and South, freight can The Japanese Embassy has issued a defendant was a member of the local before the final scene." " O. Grenfell, and A Whitworth. The now be brought direct to the ground without statement with reference to the Tilinski Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Certainly the story suggests emotional shares will not be dealt in till about 'a auair, regarding the betrayal of Fort Animals and possessed a card issued by possibilities. It starts with the meeting month has elapsed, because the articles double handling and without delay in Lon Arthur, declaring that should anyone in the Society to stall-holders.

and then the romance and finally the mar of association of the company have to be don goods yards. A special siding which he would advise the Irregulars to lay England require evidence for use in the Inspector Fisher said that, on the mornriage between a celebrated physician and altered to permit this preference issue to has been constructed within the Exhibition down their arma and agree to pursue Courta regarding the documents in using of the 18th, outside the Central a fisherman's daughter. Absorbed in the be made. The proceeds of the issue will will admit of goods being carried direct. tion, it will be prepared to furnish the Market, he saw carriers bring in two work of his profession, he permits ber to be applied partly to repaying bankers from the place of manufacture to the ex their ideals by constitutional, means.

necessary information.

crates of fowls which were not provided fancy that she is neglected and the usual advances and partly to furnishing addihibitor's stand. with matting, and, a result the legs false friend comes along to help forwardtional working capital. and henda of the birds were protruding the misunderstanding. An epidemic of It is proposed to subdivide the present PROPOSED BRITISH AIR SAILING CONTEST.

through the holes in the bottoms of the infantile paralysis breaks out and while shares of £10 each into 10 shares of £1 crates. The defendant admitted that the the physician is away working in the tene cach; aso that in future ownership of crates were his, but said they were in the ment quarters his small son is stricken shares shall be unrestricted, which, menne DAILY NATT PRIZE OF £1,000.

charge of the salesman, and he did not down and, to all appearances, passes that other than the hitherto privileged

slureholders can be owners of shares. know anything about the matter. The away! LONDON, August 203. The increased interest in air sailing, in consequence of the German success, has resulted in steps being taken to form a vpecial club, while the Daily Mall offers a prize £1,000, open to any nationality, For the longest flight in a motorless glider, of not less than thirty minutes, at a meet ing in England which is being arranged For September next.

THE UNSTABLE MARK. RECORD LOW LEVET

LONDON, August 22nd Marks have fallen to a new low record of 5,000 to the pound sterling. This is Inspector added that three days pre- The wife hardens her heart towards her attributed to speculative selling, follow viody, he had visited each poultry stall husband for what she believes to bo his ing the recovery yesterday

holder in the Western Market and showed neglect and is only saved from compromis WAS IT WATER OR MILK? him the regulations made by the Captaining herself with the home wrecker by the Superintendent of Police

interposition of a man who is a staunch Kwan Tat Tong, of No. 3, Cochrane In impoting a fine of $25, the Mingis friend of them both, The physician Ends Street, described as a milk seller, trate observed that this cruel treatment that the child is not dead after all and appeared before Mr. Hamilton, yester of fowls had been going on for a long in the quiet of his laboratory, works day time, and if defendant did not stop it, and night for a month in an effort to he would have to pay a heavier fino next restore consciousness. He does not suc time he was summoned. It was much coed, however, and then the friend makes cheaper to buy matting for the bottom of a suggestion which leads to the force of the crates than pay a fine of the amount mother love working a miracle where

science had failedĄ

FRENCH EMBARGO ON JEWELS

CANCELLING DECREE ISSUED. PARIS, August 2nd. A decree has been published cancelling the probibition of the import of real pearls, precious stopes and cut artificial stones.

just imposed.

The Exhibition will be opened in April, 1924, and will remain opon till the end of October The Stadium will be ready for use is time for the Final Tie of the Football Association Cup which will be played there in April, 1923.

While the exhibition is primanly a Trade Exhibition, every attraction will be provid ed for the general public. Sports, gaines, displays and amsements will be prominent features, a

The catering, the gardens, the magical day, for selling & fluid, alleged to be entertertainments, etc., will be the finest milk, which contained 67.6 per cent of of their kind, and contribute their fall water. As the Assistant Crown Solicitor share towards the pleasure of visitors. A (Mr. T M. Hazlerigg) put it the offence system of transport within the grounds will was more against the present water rebes convenience allowing the whole of the gulations than against the food lews A Exhibition to be reen with a minimum of

fatigue, fine of $200 was imposed..