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THE HONG KONG DALY PRESS, MONDAY, APRIL 23rd, 1928.
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DEATH FROM A LENTEN FAST.
TERRORISTS' WAY IN RUSSIA.
FOURTEEN DAYS FOODLESS.
BERLIN.
Ninety-three Russian engineers have been arrested in the Soviet's Donetz coalfield, and their position is far worse than that of the arrest ed German engineers who have had the whole of Germany demanding their release.
Two of the Germans, an engineer and fitter, have been released, Chicherin, the Foreign Commissar, haring persuaded the Ogpu formerly the Cheks terrorists and the real rulers of Russia-that it was tactless to annoy the Germans just when Moscow was trying to get a credit of 250,000,000 from ther
WOMAN HEAD" OF THREE NEWSPAPERS
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MAATSCHAPPY.
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CONTROL FROM SICK BED,
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"NO FINER CALLING."
Panis, March 19th.
From a convalescent's auch in
her flat near the Bois de Boulogne
THE MOTOR VESSEL
"VAN HEUTSZ"
a woman is conducting personally Due to sail to SINGAPORE, BELAWAN.DEL! and
and of the greatest newspaper enter prizes in the world. She is Mine.
aul Dupuy, widow of Senator Offers Paul Dupuy, the man who made the Petit Parisien, which has an enormous sale.
Mme. Dupuy a recuperating from an operation, but by means of the private telephone exchange adjoining her study she is in con- stant touch with her newspapers. In addition to the Petit Parinien, Me. Dupuy controls the Excelsior, the leading picture paper on the Continent, the Dimanche Illustre, an illustrated: Sunday paper with a
To save the face of the Ogpu," four Russian engineers were liberni ed at the same time is the Germans.circulation of more than half a A German engineer who saw the million, and a number of magazines. arrest of one of the Hbarated men,.
She said to a pressman: Herr Goldstein, has returned here and has described the arrival of the Russian terrorist agents in the said they did not know what middle" of the night. The agents
was the charge; they wore simply carrying out their orders.
As soon as I am, able to be out and about again I shall be back in my office at the Petit Parisien. My husband was the pioneer in France of the policy of giving the public the best news and the best pictures and the best adver- tising. I am carrying out his traditians.
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PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL
STEAM NAVIGATION Co.'s
STEAMER "JEYPORE,"
ARRIVED HONG KONG ON
30TH APRIL,
1928.
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"NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
PENINSULAR AND "ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION Com
·ŠTEIN "KIDDERPORE,"
Asaivan: HONG KONG ɑ Pori APRIL, 1929,
FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND
STRAITS,
Trials have taken place and liveries made by Mess. W. 8. Bailey & Co., Ltd., of the steel bulk oil motor lighter Utah and of the steel tug best Chirm Chom Phot. Descriptions of these vessels were given in a recent issue. The Diah, when fully loaded, made an aver- age trial speed of 2.63 knots against the contract speed of 7.5 knots only. The Chirm Chom Phol, on her trial trip, made an average sped of 9.63s knots against a contract speed of 9 knots only. The machinery in both cases ran perfectly and the speeds were easily, maintained.
Messrs. W. S. Bailey & Co. have row in hand an 80ft." twin screw trakwood launch for the Earbour Master's department, to be fitted with semi-Deisel Gardner motors; a100ft, steam launch for the Police Department, generally similar to the No Police they lately built and which maintained a speed of over 13 knots; a peft, tug boat for the Macao Government, and three gunboats for the Cantor Govern- ment all these vessels being of steel. Two of the gunboats are dift. long with galvanized sheer strakes and fitted with twin sterling motors to give a speed of 15 miles on a draught of ft. sina saly. The other gunboat is 11ft. in length with all the hull plating gal vanized, and will be fitted with twin triple expansion engines and Thornycroft boiler to give, a speed of 14 miles on 4ft. Gina draught, All three vessels are armour plated Russia. The Germans were accas believer in the efficacy of the closest foa Mondays and Thursdays, within the "Messrs. Godiano à Dovežas st 10 ...
from deck to water line.
This work is well advanced and the yard and shops are also busy on general construction and repair work for which they are well equipped.
BELGIAN LINK WITH
CONGO.
PLAN TO MAKE ANTWERP COLONIAL AIR FORT.
BRUSSELS.
The air service to be inaugurated or April 23rd between Antwerp and Brussels is intended to be the start ing point from which Belgium's chief maritime centre is to develop into an international and colonial
air port.
L
At the beginning aeroplanes will By twice a day in each direction giving connection at Brussels with the air liners for England, France, Holland, Germany, and so on.
Goods as well as passengers will be transported and in this way an idea of the requirements of Antwerp in the matter of air service will be obtained.
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Friends wrapped Goldstein in a huge eiderdown for the journey in an open sleigh acrou country to the prison."
The But, the Runion newspaper published in Berlin, states that the origin of the trouble was the dis- covery that three great turbins generators supplied by the German A.E.G. had not been properly installed by the Russian engineers wad werkmen. The Bolshevist au thorities bad refund to allow men From the A.E.G.. do the work, and when Goldstein arrived to Ixpect the machinery he could only shake his head and say he could not guarantee the generators would operate properly..
As the Rul points out, serious work is impossible in Russia when, from hour to hour, there hangs over the head of the workmen the posibility of sudden transference to a prison by terrorista.
The Berlin Cabinet, as a sequel to the arrests of the Germans, broke off the negotiations for a and treaty
Gertnany
between
ed of being concerned with a "sabotage organisation associat- ed with a counter-revolutionary group.
MISS NORA BAYES DEAD."
COMEDIENNE WHO MARRIED
FIVE TIMES.
New York, March 19th... Miss Nora Bayes, the popular comedienne, died this morning-in the Jewish Hospital, Brooklyn, where she went last week for an abdominal operation.
Her death is a great shock to her public, for only the day before she went into hospital the sang in two bment performanca She was 47 years of age. She was known popularly as Laughing Nors Bath England and, the United States admired her as one of the brightest of comediennes.
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In her Confessions she bas told the story of her five husbands. Her song, Has anybody here seen Kelly?" went round the world. She smilingly confessed once to the need of £300 Week as a living wage,with alligator pears at 50 cents a half portion and husbands and clothes so dear."
An America woman by birth, I have the inborn leaning towards newspapers which all Americans have. I have been interested in newspapers all my life, and I sm glad that I married a newspaper
higher calling in the world.
FroMANTWERP LONDON GIBRAL TAR MARSMILES, MALTA, PORTSAID, ADEN. COLOMBO
AND STRAITS,
of Cargo by
tha
www.
CONSIGNEES of Cargo by the above
CONS
zamed Vendel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed und
man, because there is no finer or ONSIGN Vessel are hereby in-/placed. At Ta ax in the Hong Kong formed that their Goods are being landed any Kowloon War and Godown Com and placed as TERI RISE in the Hong pany's Godowns at Kowloon, where Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Consignment will be sorted oat Mark Company's Godown at Kowloon, where by Mark and Deliver their each Consignment will be sorted out Mark the Goods an
by Mark and Deli Our news-DY
goan be obtained ka
This Yeasel brings on Cargo from Persian Gulfer B.L.S.N. and B. & P.8.N. Co.'s Steamers
edy sons, Jean, aged is, Jacques, aged 17, and my daughter, Gladys, aged 16, will fallow in
am training them in their father's footsteps, and 1 father's traditions. paper enterprises are our family property, and my learn the business by working
the Goods are bond wat be landed hers
Optional sons are to
unless instructions have been gives to the contrary Ris hours before anival of
insida the office. My policy as a newspaper editor is based on iron rules which my husband followed a curate and brightly presented nows and pictures, a well-printed paper, and good advertising.. I stand for good advertising and truth in advertising. Mme. Paul Dupuy is an ardent understanding between Great Bri- tain, France, and the United States.
AMEER AND KNITTING GIRL.
ROMANCE AT THE
FAIR
WORLD
A NEW WORK FOR AFGHAN WOMEN.
BERLIN.
A story that reads like a fairy tale comes this week from the Leipzig Fair. It became the topic of the hour at Leipzig, and all the ingenious novelties, all the kaleido scopic carnival scenes, and all the romance of the trade of many nations, bad, for the time being, to take a secondary place in the general interest.
King Amanullah of Afghanistan
the biteamer.
elading date of arrival will be subject to Goods not cleared within 8 days in Rent
can be obtained se
Optional Goods will be landed hers unless Instructions have been given to the contrary 6 hours before smiral of the Steamer.
incinding dals of arrival will be subject to
Goods not cleared within 8 dayı - Rent
"No Fire furarance will be effected by us in any cass whatever.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any case whatever.
Damaged Packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Consignees, and the Company's survey on Messrs. GODDARD & DOUGLAS at 10 am,
period.
Free against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before 10th
Free
Storage t
Damaged Packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Cox- signees, and the Company's Burveyors, Thursdays, within the All Claims against the Steamer must
Ind
not be recap Mar. 1988; or they will be presentol to the Undersigned on or No Clima will be admitted after the bore 10th May, 1928, or they will
No Clad
will be admitted after the MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & Co., Goods have left the Godown.
Agenta,
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & Co,
Agente Hong Kong, 20 Apr, 1998. [8158
Hong Kong, 20th Apr., 1828. [6139
Goods have lets the Godown,
HONG KONG METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER.
Hong Kong Oberstory, April 22nd.
Previons Oz Date On Dals
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Direction Force
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machines, and suggested, through ordered. twenty-five knitting. Lowest open-air Temperature, 2ând: 75 his interpreter, that the very tired B-Bize aky: G-Claudy: D who was demonstrating the parti--Mist; O-Overcast P-Passing and very industrious young girl Drizzle; Ffog; L-Lightning cular type he ordered should go to showera; Q-Squalls; R-Rain; T- Afghanistan to teach the women Thunder. how to use them. The Magic of the East" never worked greater
HONG KONG TIDE TABLE.
From April 9rd to 29th, 1928. Hien WATER.
Miss Bayes was born at Mil-wonders. The change of expression aukee, Wisconsin, and made her and the altered bearing of this very ordinary young women were almost miraculous No King in tho wildest, romance ever worked ruch an apparent miracle in a humble destiny. This is the most extra. ordinary incident, indeed, that Leipzig's records have to show.
For the equipment of a modern aerodrome at Antwerp the Govern- ment is making an advance of 8,000,000 francs and the scheme of the promoters provides that every-rst appearance in New York, com- thing shall be in working order by ing to London in 1805. At the con- 1930 for the Centenary Exhibition. cluding performances of a three- It is hoped that by then the months engagement at the Pal. Belgian Congo will be linked up ladium in 1923 the audience was not with Antwerp by aeroplanes and satisfied, till she had sung 33 song that the journey will be completed
She was very fond of children, though she had none of her own in seven days.
She had adopted three children, one of them the orphan of a British Midier.
WHOSE WORM?
CAVE EXPLORERS' LAWSUIT OVER A FIND.
BUDAPEST. Exploring a cavo together neur Budapest, Dr. Ludwig Medelyi, professor of science, and Dr. Imre Bokor, head of a secondary, school, found a blind warm called Asenas Cavhtimus, for which both had been looking for a long time, for it is very rare in Hungary.
Dr. Bokor published in a scien- tifie journal shortly after narrative of the excursion to the cave, “in- dienting that be had sem the worin
:
It is understood from the remarks of the interpreter that not only will
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the women of Afghanistan learn to Man. 25 mio 4 7 3m 4 42 kait in the most modern European
6 607 way, but that the Ameer envisages Tass 24 m 1 6 47 57 Speaking once of her marriage the possibility of showing collec-
II 31 venturer, she said?
Every time we marry we think ton of bis country's products at Wed. £5m 2 4 4 3 29 38 we have found the ideal man, but Leipzig next year. we are only too often disillusion-care with which he studied Soviet Thur 264341m
Russia's exhibits-vivid textiles,
ed. Men are so selfish. They al ways want to get more out of marriage than they give.
FIFTEEN CHILDREN: ON.... 35. A WEEK.
The extreme
2 26 11 8 1
painted toys and toothsome pre Fri. 27 No infe, high nor low wit serves-shows, it would seem, that these are the models he has in view. Bat 28 No indy, high nor low wat
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"We
children. had fifteen Eleven of them are alive now, How we managed to bring them up on my wages I don't know, and
FATHER'S HALF-CENTURY IN neither does my wife. It was
ONE JOB.
dreadful hard sometimes. We just daren't think of the fature at all, or we'd have gone out of our heads, "We just took everything as it came and made the best of it, They've grown up a fine family,
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. QUEAN STEAMSHIP CO. LTD. CHINA" MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO, LTD.
FROM UNITED KINGDOM VIL SINGAPORE
“YONSIGNEES par Co.'s Steamer
"ORDSTES" are hereby notified that the Cargo will be discharged late Holt's Wharf, Kowloon, whers it will lie at Consignees, risk and abject to Terms and Conditions of Sto Storage at Holt's Wharf. The Cargo will be ready for Delivery from Godown en and after 20th April. unless Noths has been given prior to Optional Cargo will not be landed here, Steamer's arriva bat carried on from port to port to the final port of call to which the opti
option extends. All buk
chafed sad damaged Goodi
are to be left in the Godowns, where they will
| be examined on any Tussdays and Fridays between the hours of 10,15 all, and Noor within the Free Storage period, No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Steamer's
all Goods remaining undelivered after the 28th April, will be subject to Eent,
All Claims against the tamer must Presented to the Undersigned on or before the 10th May, or they will not
recognised,
be
be
No Fire Insurance will be affected.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
"20th April, 1029.
Agunta,
[6181
HAMBURG AMERIKA LINIE,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,
THE
Steamship
*PREUSSEN*
kaving amited, Consignees of Cargo are hereby notified that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hong Kong and Kowloon What and Godora Company's Godowes it Kowloon, where Delivery CRA obtained the Goods are landed.
Options Largo will be landed, unless Notice har been given prior to Stemmer e Brival.
No. Claims will be admitted after the Goods hat left the Godowns, and
A man of seventy-six, who has first and that it was his worn, or worked for more than fifty years rather discovery, Dr. Medelyi chait the same job with the same firm lenged this claim, and out of the for an average wage of 35s. a week, Mr. Gregory pointed to the walls with Illustrations, Maps and Flags Goods remaining undelivered after AUSTRAL CHINA NAVIGATION CO. ch is likely to infonguit, talked, toda. Daily Express repre, of his little, parleur, which were
S.S. “CALULU
Will be despatched hense on the
23RD APRIL, 1928, at 4 p.m.
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grown up she felt so lost without
PRICE
81,78)
On Bale at:
Apr 1926, will be. robject
AU·
the
All Chains must reach, us before the 9th May 1985, or
or they will not be
which last a long time, sentative about the troubles of covered with photographs of his Witnesses have been called
bringing up a large family. A children-" but if we were starting
Good roten, Goods are to be left the Dr. Medalyi, who â suing for
Godowns, He is Mr. Joe. Gregory, a little all over again we shouldn't want to
where they will be examined on 24th libel, said in court that he saw the red-faced, healthy-looking man, have so many."
retired from work worm first, though Dr. Bokor car-who has just
Mrs. Gregory admitted, however, HONG KONG DAILY PRESS OPTIOL April, 1928, at 10 am, by our Barrerons,
Mesara, Goldard and Donging, ried the electric torch. It reposed as a pavior with the French that when her own family waS upon a stats, and be at once ex-Asphalte Company amined it with a pocket microscope, It was hard work, he said, identified it, and called it Mongo but I became used to it and liked lophil," meaning Loring to the it, and I wouldn't have given up Mongola." It was his worm and now if I hadn't been taken ill with Dr. Bokor had no claim to it at alt lumbago I used to go about all
The case was adjoumed for for over England: sign experts to attend.
(Continued on next Column).
Sa
a child about the place that sho took in a little girl and brought, her up for four years..
SUNRISE AND SUNSET.
Bunriae.
Fanart..
One of their sons, Charlie, went
8.47 p.m.
5:47
BAT
to America to seek his fortime, and To-day
has been a clerk at the Ritz-Carlton To-morrow. Hotel, New York, for fifteen years. Wednesday 18,56
recognised
No Fin Inarancs will be entsetad Bill of Lading will be countersigni by the Undersigned, w
JÉBSEN & CO
Agente,
Hong Kong, 18th Apr, 1928. [6153
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