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THE “SANDVIKEN.*...

ANOTHER STORY OF THE PIRACY. |......

THE CAPTAIN INTERVIEWED

AT SHANGHAI.

[THROUGH RIUTKE'E AGETOY.]

SHANGHAI, August 26th, The Shanghai Evening New states: that a gang of thirty-eight pirates,_dis- „guised as passengers, looted the Ner- wegian steamer Sandriken of money, jewellery, and clothes amounting to 220,000 ecar Hongkong on "August 21st..

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TERRIBLE FERRY

DISASTER.

ONLY. SIX OUT OF 100 PASSENGERS SURVIVE.

(THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.)

NOAKHALLS, Bengal, Angust 26th. A terrible disaster has occurred to ferry bont on the river Megna. The ves-

sel capsized, broke in half, and-out-of- à hundred Indian passengers, only six, so far, are reported to have survived.

TURKISH PLOT TRIAL.

DEATH SENTENCES.

The captain, interviewed on his arrival, in Shanghai, states that, after leaving Hongkeng be suspected that some of the

CONSTANTINOPLE, August S8th. Chinese passengers carried arms, so com-

The second important trial arising menced search, when the arms were found. He, however, was seized and from the alleged plot against the life has ended at with his officers as well as the crew, was of Mustapha Kemal, herded on the deck under cover of guns.Angora, where a number of ex-members The witcles operator was injured

HONGKONG ~ DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28TH

THE *HINDENBURG””

RE-FLOODED.

COAL DISPUTE.

THE RESUMPTION OF NEGOTIATIONS,

GALE IN SCAPA FLOW.

[BRITISH WILKLESS SERVICE.

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(THROUGH NEUTER'S AGENDY.]

LONDON, August 26th. The coal negotiations bave "resumed, four officials of the Miners' Federation this, afternoon" meeting Mr. Churchill, Sir Arthur Steel Maitland and Col. Lane Fox at No. 1c, Downing Street.

A delegation of fourteen, comprising two members of the Miners Federation, Mrs. A. J. Cook, several District Agents and miners wives, are going to Russia to-morrow on the invitation of Russian miners, who will cover, the expenses of the visit, which is expected to last one month,

SECRECY.

LATER. The utmost secrecy is being maintained regarding the coal discussions which took plage at Downing Street and which lasted

RUGBY, August 28th.

As the result of a severe gals which 27 swept over the Orkneys, the ex-German battle-cruiser

Hindenburg, which is being raised in Scapa Flow, has been re-flooded.

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Two Questions.

Do you Want $200?

Can you Select the Hongkong

Interport Cricket team?

An ex-German destroyer, which is IN VIEW OF THE MANY DISCUSSIONS AND ARGUMENTS

a breakwater for the. being used as Hindenburg, damaged the floating dock "which is now under repair. One of the

large patches on the Hindenburg, also," gave way and some smaller patches also require attention before, further progress with the pumping can be resumed.

The Times says that proper salvage operations will not be re-started until next week.

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BRITISH INFANT MORTALITY STATISTICS..

BIG IMPROVEMENT.

RUGBY, August 26th,

The annual report, of the Ministry of

though not seriously and the wireless of the committee of the Union of Progress for ninety minutes, but it appears that Health records that the rate of infant

apparatus destroyed with an axe. After were charged with instigating the.com- loqting the ship, the pirates forced the Bias Bay, the capitain to atver notorious pirate refuge near Hongkong,

to

spiracy.

The Public Prosecutor read a lengthy

no immediate good results are likely and no further meeting was arranged."

A full report of the meeting was pre-

mortality per 1,000 births last year was 75, which is the same as the figure for

Commenting upon the big improvement

102-1.

where the pirates went ashore with the document reviewing the Committee's his pared most quickly and sent by special which has taken place during the last | loot. The Sandviken is one of the best tory and ascribing to ita moral effect Courier to Mr. Baldwin, at Aix-les- thirty years, the report states that the

known coasting steamers plying between Shanghai, Canton and elsewhere on the

China Coast.

(A much fuller account of this piracy appeared in yesterday's Daily Press.

GERMANY AND THE LEAGUE.

NO FEAR OF SERIOUS OPPOSITION.

BERLIN, August 26th. The Reichstag's "Foreign Affairs Com- mittee has received Herr Stresemann's report on the foreign political situation.

the fatal consequences of Turkey's par. ticipation in the Great War. The Pro- Becutor demanded that four of the ac cused men he sentenced to death, seven banished and the remainder acquitted.

The ex-Finance Minister Djavid Bey, Nazim-Bey, Nail Bey and Hilmi Bey were sentenced to death and will be executed in a week's time.

SPEEDY WORK. "CONSTANTINOPLE, August 27th. Four of the death sentences mentioned

Bains.

A miners' delegation is visiting Russia for the purposes of collecting funds.

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BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

OFFICIAL ACCOUNT.

Ruory, August 25th. The meeting between the miners officials and the Government, arranged at the request of the Secretary of the Miners' Federation, with a view to dis cussing the coal situation and reviewing the prospects of setting the dispute by

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effect of this improvement can perhaps best be seen by applying the mortality rates of thirty years ago to the figüres-for- the past year. In 1995, the actual mum- ber of deaths of infants under one year of age was 33,000 whereas if the average infant mortality rate of 1891-1000 had been maintained the number would have been 108,780.

COBHAM'S FLIGHT,

PLANS FOR RETURN JOURNEY.

Rucey, August 28th. - On his retura flight from Melbourne "to

It is learned that the foreign Minister were.executed at midnight in the prison- negotiation, lasted for over hour and London, Mr. Alan Cobham will discard is on the whole confident that the diff. yard at Angora. Five other members half. At the close, a statement was the land under-carriage of his aeroplane?

culties of Germany's entrance into the League would eventually be removed. He does not expect any serious opposition by Spain which be considers is fully occupied with the Tangier problem, in which Germany is not interested.

Herr Stresemann pointed cut that.. Lord Cécil's plan was still taken as a basis of negotiatious.

The Committee, which Approved of the Clovernment's attitude, finally rejected a Communist motion demanding the" with drawal of Germany's application to enter the League..

of the Commi

of Union and Progress, including Reouf Bey and Rahmi Bes were sentenced to perpetual tanishment all the others were acquitted.

THE GREEK CRISIS.

NEW CABINET.

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ATHENS, August 26th. In accordance with the decision of the a Cabinet of Ser- party leaders to form vice, consisting of civilians. headed by M. Kondylis, as Head of the National Democratic Party, M. Kondylis has A POSSIBLE SOLUTION.

formed 1 Cabinet with himself According to Le Jouraut the result of Minister of War and Marine, Professor recent conversations between Sir Cecil Petmeras as Minister of the Interior and Hurst, M. Fromagcot and Dr. Gaus, the

Justice, M. Argyropoulos (ex-Minister legal experts of the, British, French and at Angora) as Minister of Foreign German Foreign Offices, as a possible Affairs, Professor Triandafilopoulos, as the question before the Minister of Communications, M Papus, League Council, it is proposed that elec who is a distinguished surgeon, as tions to non-permanent seats will be Minister of Public Instruction, M. Dros Enal and the Assembly will not

sopoulous (co-Governor of the National entitled to revoke them until the three Bank of Greece) as Minister of Finance, years' term has expired. It is also sug and M. Nakos (who is a lawyer), gested that non-permanent members be given a guarantee of re-election, thus practically extending the mandate to six Feare,

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SPAIN AND TANGIER.:

AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT.

MADRID, August 28th..

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Minister of Agriculture.

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MOTOR DISASTER. FAMOUS BRITISH DRIVER KILLED.

BOULOGNE, August 25th The motor car race meeting has opened. disastrously. The famous Brooklands

issued as follows:-"A meeting took

the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the place at Downing Street to-day between

Minister of Labour and the Secretary of Mines, on behalf of the Government, and four officials representing the Miners' Federation. The full position was re- viewed, and a verbatim report will be isaued to the Press to-morrow."

[REUTE'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]

GUN-RUNNING.

AEROPLANE BOMBS STEAMER.

AN EXCITING FIGHT.

at Port Darwin, which he expects to

-the advantage of low tides there, to rest Boats for re-converting the machine inte reach on September 2nd. He will have.

a seaplane. From Port Darwin home wards, as on the outward journey, he will alight on water at each stopping pláce.

MIRACULOUS ESCAPE..

ELECTRIC TRAIN SAFETY. SERVICE FAILS.

LONDON, August 8th.

A dramatic midnight accident occurred

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WHICH INVARIABLY CENTRE "ROUND THE SELEC- TION OF AN INTERPORT ELEVEN. WE HAVE DE- "CIDED TO HOLD A NOVEL-COMPETITION IFE ASK OUR READERS TO CHOOSE THE` PLAYERS WHO THEY THINK WILL REPRESENT HONGKONG IN THE MATCH AGAINST SHANGHAI ON NOVEMBER IITH (or on whatever date the game may be played).

Most people will be able to make a fairly close approximation

to the team by the first week in November. We, therefore, propose

to put a premium upon our readers' judgment and foresight by dividing the Competition into three parts.

That is to say, the first lists of selections-we will call them SERIES A-must reach the Hongkong Daily Press on or before September 15th.

The second lists-SERIES B-on or before October 7th. The final lists-SERIES C-on or beföre November 1st.. (Readers should note that it is up to them to get their lists to The Hongkong Daily Press Office, and no claims for postal or other delay will be considered by the Editor) To avoid the risk of judgment being swamped by numerical profusion..

each competitor is limited to 20 lists in eachseries-60 lists in all.

Selection becomes easier as time goes on and, therefore

For each correct name submitted on each list in Series A, two

points will be credited to the competitor.

"For each correct name in Series B, 11 points

For each correct name in Series C, one point.

Thus while the competitor who starts early has the best chance, the one who starts later is by no means out of the running if he is skilful in selection and assiduous in collecting his twenty coupons.

SYSTEM OF SCORING

To illustrate the system of scoring, to obtain full points a competitor would have to choose the correct team from the start and give this correct team in the full twenty lists of each series.

SERIES A: 20" X 22 SERIES B:" 20 X 16 SERIES C:

X 11 Total Possible...

440 330

points

20

220

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PROBABILITIES.

The Judge is a gentleman who has been associated with Hongkong Cricket for many years. He informs us that he expects the winning total will "be between three and four hundred, and points out that, while ties would involve dividing the prises, as a mark would make the difference, a tie under the system of scoring devised is very unlikely.

First Prize Second Prize

Third Prize.

Prizes.

$200

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just outside Newcastle Central Station. In the very unlikely event of a tie these prizes will be divided.

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An electric train was returning from the coast laden with trippers and, after it had been out of control and unmanned for a couple of miles, the train dashed Lists through Manors North Station, where it New YCRE, August 26th: A battle between a Government bomb should have stopped, at 40 miles an hour, and collided with a glancing blow with a ing aeroplane and a gun-running vessel gooda train which had begun to cross in endeavouring to land arms for the re-front on the electrified line, volutionary forces is described from Mangus.

Two former American aviators, now employed in the Nicaraguan, Constabu- lary, located the vessel of Corinto and, dropping to a low altitude, discharged a shower of bombs. The vessel went out to sea, the crew machine-guaning the aeroplane which pursued the vessel till the bomba ran out. The same night the aeroplane replenished and returned and dropped more bombs, but darkness ended

the fight.

RIVER BOATS SUNK..

The driver's section was practically telescoped. The wonder in that the train did not topple over the viaduct on to the street feet below.

SEARCH FOR DRIVER.

A diligent search was made for the driver, who, it was thought, and shot on to the roofs of the houses below, but the body eventually was found near a railway bridge two miles away."

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Rules.

must strictly conform to the following rules:

Each must have a special coupon attached and be signed with a nom-de-plume. Initials of the selected players must be given. Where more than one player may bear the same name, full and correct initials only will score points.

The competitor's name must not be written on the selected list, but must be sent separately in the same envelope with that list. Envelopes should be marked "Cricket Competition. The names and addresses will be retained by the Editor. The lists only will be handed to the Judge.

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The fudge, therefore will be aware of the nom-de-plums only of each of the cota petitors. (More ebrions ones" Wicket," "Willow," "Stamped," etc., should be avoided to Bave duplication. Moreover, it is hereby notified that any one being the name R. Abbit. will be promptly dingalifed.. It is already dedicated. A

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Coupons.

Coupons, of which we print a sample below, will be published

The circumstances suggest that he was leaning out of the window, when his head on the following dates only:- came into contact with the bridge and he was instantly killed.

The safety device in the driving mechanism, consisting of a knobb whicu drivers have to keep depressed in order to keep the train in motion, failed to The passengers were shaken but only the infirmary.....

function.

In each issue between September 1st and 14th for Series A.

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September 22nd and October 8th for Series B. October 15th and 30th for Series C.

Lists need not contain the full eleven names, but' any list containing more than eleten will be destroyed and no credit will be given for it.

The eleven names upon which the marking will be given are those of the eleven-

Spain's attitude towards Tangier is rider, Captain Howey, during a hill test HURRICANE AT NEW ORLEANS. Sve required temporary admission into gentlemen who actually play in the match. The Judge, the Official Selection Committee.

officially stated to be concerned with failed to take the second band and his three aspects--territorial, maritime, and car dashed among the spectators, killed. Jockt

As regards the first, Spain could not complete the civilising mission of an international character" begun in North Africa while Tangier remains a refuge for rebels and the open door for contra band of war. As regards the second, the collective interest of all Powers is to ensure the neutrality of the Straits.

As regards the third, the international regime has been demonstrated as lacking durability.

ane, broke a gendarme's leg, and cut off the leg of an onlooker Captain Howey was killed instantly. The injured people were taken to hospital.

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SECURITY PACTS.

LATVIA, ESTHONIA AND THE SOVIET.

Moscow, August 28th.

NEW ORLEANS, August 28th. In a hurricane which blew here-last night, severni river boats were sunk.

LATER.

Four fatalities have occurred in the storm in Louisiana, and damage of over a million dollars, mostly to rice, sugar cane, cotton and cora crops, while houses have been swept away, roofs blows off and telegraph and telephone poles splin- tcred.

MINERS ENTOMBED.

U.S. DISASTER.:

NEW YdEx, August 96th.

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THE CADDIE WHO KNEW. LANGUAGE WHEN A GOLFER

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When a former caddie, aged 16, was fined 10s. at Kendal for using abscene language while playing golf on a public ground adjoining Kendal golf links," be said to the bench:

Golfers should set an example. You should hear them when they miss a ball. You would know if you had been f caddic, but there is nothing said about that'

and any one on the staff of the Hongkong Daily Preis are excluded from the Competition.

In any case of doubt or argument the Editor's decision is final.

Series

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Sample Coupon

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

Cricket Competition

As will be seen from the particulars given, the competition will open on Septem-

ber 1st. When a list is completed all that remains to be done is to attach a coupon to

The Foreign Commissariat tas publish.

The Chief Constable said no doubt it and send it in. The coupons for Series A will, as stated, appear in each issue. golfers could se to the occasion when of the Daily Pra from September 1st to 14th Twenty lists is the maximum ed a Memorandum to the effect that the

While coupons may be taken from the required, but when, as in this case, ob that will be considered in any one series. scene language was shouted about the paper of any date it would be advisable not to leave the collection of coupons until the The statemcat draws attention to the Latvian and Esthonian Government have

place on a Bunday afternoon it was very last day. It might be found impossible to secure the full number required. natural connection between the Tangier declared their willingness to negotiate

unpleasant for men who were in the com- A message from Johns Town, Pen-pany of ladies on the golf links and on problem and the question of Spain's directly with the Soviet for a Security position at Geneva 14 urges the Fact The Soviet Government has in asylvania; states that forty miners are the public ground where the defendant

was playing... repre representatives at Biga and entombed at Clymer. Two bodies have The bench joined in the merriment of nations concerned to examine the situa- structed ite

the crowded court. Revel to start negotiations immediately. I been recovered. tion.

(There will be no need to rewrite a list if it is desired to stand or fall by the twenty lists, and points given accordingly.)

names or chest ac list, accompanied by twenty coupons will be judged as Any readers to whom the rules are not clear are invited to write and ask for an explanation on any doubtful point.