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CENTRAL BANK OF FRENCH ROYALIST

CHINA.

NEW NOTE ISSUE.

REDEMPTION OF TREASURY

BONDS.

(rukoval azUTER'S LOINCT.}

NANKING, Oct. 30th.

Finance

1-

The Ministry nounces the formal opening of the Central Bank of China go Novem ber 1st Nates of $1, $5, $10,

DEMONSTRATION.

PONS RIOT SEQUEL..

MANY PRISONERS

RELEASED.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31st, 1928.

AN ENTERPRISING

"SECOND LANDRU" | RIVALS CLOSING

GOLF CADDY.

DIES.

SPEECHES.

STOWAWAY ON THE ZEPPELIN.

HUNGER STRIKE IN PRISON,

GHASTLY MARSEILLES

STRUGGLE IN NEW YORK STATE.

AMERICAN YOUTH OF 17.

[REUTER'S AMERICAN "APETICA)

New York, Oct. 9th. giant Germs dirigible, the Zeppelin, which left the navn aerodrome at Lakehurst, New Jersey at two o'clock this

(THROUGH REUTEN'S. ADENCE.]

PARIS, Oct. 30th. Following the riot at Pons in

The which the statue of M. Combes was mutilated, all but seven out of the Graf forty-six members of the Royalist organisation Camelot du Roi."

been released. Noge of them were armed. The charge to be brought against the remaining seven will be that of assaulting the police.

$50 and $100 denominations will be who were arrested at Pons have morning, passed out to sea ninety

isrued for circulation at par and will be acceptable as legal tender for the payment of all Government

taxes.

HANKOW" NOTES.

(Wal Te Tat Pan).

SHANGHAI, Oct. 30th.

The Bishop of la Rochelle, who had ordered the clergy to 'treat Sunday as a day of mourning, has issued a statement in which ho .condemns the violence of the Camelots du Roi and others, but

more than pity expresses

for the dead Camelot,

COTH

The political controversy. The Nanking Financial Departered provocation in honouring tinues around the question of the ment has announced that it is the former Premier, M. Combes.

to redeem all:

taking issues

measures

of treasury bonds and all

Central Bank notes stamped "Kan

.

miles south of Cape Sable, the most southerly point of Nova Scotia at 10.16mm.

The course thus taken would in dicate that her Chief Navigating Oficer intends to follow the northerly course.

The Zeppelin will thus benefit by favourable winds and is expect સર્વ

to accomplish the return time than on the outward trip. journey to Europe in much better

Four hours after the Zeppelin took off at Lakehurst, members of the crew discovered a Berenteën- year-old American youth, who had

kow which were floated during COPPER · MINES INstowed away on board.

the Northern Expeidtion

It also announces that the Shang- hai branch of the Central Bank wil be inaugurated on November 1st.

NATIVE PRODUCTS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S MOENCY.]

NANKING, Oct 30th.

ANGLESEY.

ABANDONED WORKINGS

EXAMINED.

JOBS FOR UNEMPLOYED.

(BRITISH WIRELESS EXVICE.]

Rusar, Oct. Esth.

It is understood that Chiang Kai She and other leading members of the Government are going to Shanghai to attend the Nationale men will be engaged. New veins

Native Products Exhibitions, which is being held on November 1st.

It is announced that the copper mines at Pary's Mountain, in the island of Anglesey, are shortly, to be reopened, and many unemploy of copper have been disuvered, showing yields of 3 and 34 per

cent.

The Anglesey copper mines began to be worked during the Roman e FAILURE OF RICE CROP.cupation, but the industry really Records show dates from 1750. that more that 27,000,000 was paid in dividends from the working of these mines.

THROUGH BETTER'S MORSOY.]

HANKOW, Oct. 30th. It is reported locally that the autumn rice crops in lupeh and Hunan have almost completely fail- ed owing to the dryness of the season. The position of the coun- try folk. is very serious, and a ragrid

se of prices here is expected.

LOCAL BANDITS.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

PEIPING, Oct. 30th. Yang Ha Chen with the Tenth Army of the Second Group, which was recently stationed at Tangshan, west of Hauchowfu, has been or dered to Kiäochow to "suppress local bandits," presumably meaning operations against Liu Chen Xica.

PEKING POLICE FOR

"NANKING..

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

Peirisa, Oct. 30th.

The Bureau of Public Safety has selected 200 Peking poles for re- serve in Nanking, and will despatch them very short. The Bureau is giving an allowance of $20 to each family.

PEKING - HANKOW RAILWAY.

(THROCOK KEUTER'S AGENCY. }

The

PEKING, Oct. 30th. Feking-Hankow Radway authorities yesterday commenced 10 remore the archives from

The special attention of rising saperta was drawn to the abandon ed mines some four years ago, 'und,

after prolonged fuvestigation, the potential value of the copper atea has been demonstrated.

BAD SITUATION IN MELBOURNE.

ANSWER TO BOMB ATTACKS. ITALIANS USE KNIVES. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.).

MELBOURNE, Oct. 20th. The strike situation continues unsettled and Italian and Greek volunteer deckers are beginning to use knives in retaliation for the nisaults and Lomb outrages, which have been directed principally' against them.

SHANGHAI-HANKOW AIR MAIL.

THROUGH RAUTER'S AGENCY.)

NANKING, Oct. 30th. Chiang Kai Shek has contributed $100,000 to the Shanghai Hankow Commereint Aviation Co., Ltd., with the hope that air mail and passenger services will soon be in- augurated between Shanghai and

Hankow.

MR. ARITA'S VISIT..

(ah Taz Fat Paa).

SHANGHAI, Oct. 20th.

It is considered in Chinese circles

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This ad

CRIMES.

(THROUGH LEUTER'S 4OENOT. Į

00

MARSEILLES, Oct. 30th. Pierre Rey, known as "Landru the second," who has been hunger strike: use his arrest, has died in prison.

The first development in this ghastly Marseilles villa erime took place on June 28th, when the Chief of the Algier Police announced | that he had arrested 'n man answer- thg the description of Jerome Frat, the man wanted" by the French Police in connection with the murders.

The Chief of the Algiers Police advised the Marseilles Police that the man he had detained was described Ra Pierre Rey, alias Jerome Prat, or Jerome Gallaird.

HOOVER A CERTAINTY?

[REUTER'S AMERICAN, SERVICE]

New York, Oct. 30th. "Only a political miracle" say the experts "can encompass the defeat of Hoover," who is still a strong favourite on the ere of the Presidential election. Meanwhile both candidates are fighting hard, and the Democrats are in nowise dawnhearted. They are concentrati ing especially on New York State, Al Smith's own state," which is a pivotal state wielding forty-five electoral votën—the largest single

bloc in the Union.

This state is likely to see the closest contest of all, everything depending

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SYDNEY TO LONDON DEVELOPING CIVIL

AND BACK.

AUSTRALIAN AVIATORS

VENTURE,

SISTER 'PLANE TO LINDBERGH'S.

[THRQUOR `RIUTER'S AGENCY.]

SYDNEY, Oct. 30th. Captain Frank Hurley, accom- panied by Flying Officer Moir, started at 4.38 this morning on a flight from Sydney to London and back, a distance of approximately 29,000 miles.

The machine they are using is a monoplane, the Spirit of Aus tralia," PL

sister-plane of the

AVIATION.

COMPANY FORMED IN

BRITAIN.

CHAIN OF AERODROMES.

[BRITISH WIRELESS BERVICE.]

Ruday, Oct. 29th

A private Company is in process of formation, with Capt. Frederick Guest, who was Secretary of State for Air in 1821-92, 25 its Chair MAS, to develop civil aviation under unified management.

Such developments as privata charters to feed the Imperial air. lines, the institution of a network of aerodromes all over the country, the provision of flying instruction, Spirit of St. Louis in which and facilities for garaging private the famous American airman, Colly-owned aircraft will be fostered Lindbergh, flew the Atlantic..

by the Company. Very careful The airmen plan to fly by stages consideration has been given to the of 1,600 miles, and it is hoped that scheme, which is stated to have the whether Smith's they will reach London in twelve cordial co-operation of the Air majority in New York City will | days. be sufficient to set of the Repub- lican strength of the rest of the state.

On November 1st Mr. Hoover crosses the continent to his

will deliver four speeches en route. Governor Smith has delivered at Baltimore the first of his four final speeches in the east. He scathingly denounced the Anti-Saloon League, the Ku Klux Klan and the Repub-probably Bagdad, and most of the lican" attitude to prohibition.

Terrible Crimés. Sixty years of age, Jerome Prat disappeared from the villa on June seatures is believed to be a golf 15th, after neighbours attention home at Paloalto, California, and had been attracted by the screams of a woman, who subsequently was found strangled in of the

caddy.

"THE GHOST OF “BANQUO.”

MASSACHUSETTS TO FACE

...THE RECKONING.

SACCO AND VANZETTI DISCLOSURES.

[REUTER'S. AMERICAN SERVICE)

New Yonx, Oct. 30th, In the course of an outspoken leading article entitled "The Ghost of Banquo," the World, comnient- ing on the Outlook's statements to the effect that Sacco and Vanzetti were innocent of the grimes for which they were executed, says:

"The evidence set forth estab lishes an overwhelming presump- tion that Vanzetti had nothing to do with the Bridgewater case, the implications of which are terrific, för if Vanzetti was not guilty in ense, then the the Bridgewater

rooms.

He left in a motor-car and was carrying & Back in which it is be- lieved was the body of yet another woman victim of his dreadful crimes.

F

The case was. described as a new Landru "ense, the Police suspect- 'ing that other women had been those. murdered in addition to whose bodies had been found.

SOVIET PLUNDER FROM

MUSEUM.

STOLEN PROPERTY FOR SALE.

RUSSIAN PRINCE'S PROTEST.

(THROUGH BEUTHE'S ADENCY.]

PASSIVE RESISTANCE IN

SAMOA..

NATIVES REFUSE TO PAY TAXES.

BANISHED EUROPEAN'S

INFLUENCE.

(THROUGH RZUTER'S AGENCY.]

BERLIN, Oct. 30th.. theory on which he was tried in

The Russian emigre. Prince the South Braintree case lapses and

Alexander Cotromanitz, has appli- the reasons for the refusal of ed to the courts for an injunction demency at a time when the people to prevent a firm of auctioneers

medicine cheat among the objetzing, which the outbreaks occurred.

Sir James

| of the civilised world were protest-selling a valuable portrait and a

ing against the execution seem utterly inadequate."

The journal adds: This cele- brated case rises from the grave to haunt all connected therewith. The commonwealth

of Massachusetts now faces the reckoning. It can ng more ignore these findings than it can ignore the Day of Judg ment.."

AMERICAN. PUBLISHER

ATTACKED. HOUSE BOMBED BY NIGHT.

[DEUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

NEW YORK, Oct. 9th. Enemies of Mr. R. C. Hoyle, the American publisher, well-known threw a bomb into his home at Mansfield, Ohio, in the early hours of this morning, the verandah being torn, away and a window. shattered and blown out by the explosion.

Part from Russian musclams, which the Soviet has ordered to be sold in Berlin.

The Prince declares that the

Other

articles were illegally taken from his palace in Petrograd: Russian emigres are similarly pro- texting against the sale of stolen property by the Bolshevisks.

TROTSKY GROUP, ATTACKED.

PERNICIOUS TEACHINGS IN RED ARMY.

um-

CAMPAIGN BY STALIN PARTY.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

RIGA, Oct. 29th. The Stalin party has now Larked on a general campaign to clear out the Opposition entirely fron al branches of, the Com- The family were asleep at the munist Party, and the Control The Commission at Leningrad, which time and nobody was hurt.

retently

careful bėgan miscreants escaped, though. the police are carrying out vigorous rigorous examination of all Party investigation.

officials, has censured thirty Len- ingrad officials, and expelled for a second time five leading members. of the Party, who were recently re-admitted penitent Tro skyiste.

LABOUR WINS A SEAT.

BYE-ELECTION AT ASHTON-

-UNDER-LYNE.

طرح

[THROUGH NEUTER'S, AGENCY.]

LONDON, Oct. 29th. Labour bas triumphed in the

Peking to Hankow. It is believed that Mr. Anita's sudden visit t what the licad Office w shortly Shanghai will greatly help the pro-bye-election at Ashton-under-Lyne by established at Hankow. " wigress of the Sipe-Japanese negotit at the expense of the Conservatives.

Marshal Yen Hsi Shan

tions. A certain report even goes apparently control the northernofar as to state that the Japanese disqualification of the Conserva- The election was caused by the section of the railway, from which Government will shortly issue an he will receive 8300,000 mouthly official Note announcing ita willing owing to his bankruptcy.

sive member, Mr. C. W. J. Homan, The for the payment of his Shansi

neas to open formal negotiations polling resulted as follows:

......... 9,567 Marshal Yen has appointed the with the Nationalist Government to Mr. A. Bellamy (Lab.) Shansi General Ho Shao Nan to confirm the Wang-Yada Agreement C. C. Touche (Con) 7,181 in regard to the Bankow and Nan guard the northern section, moving him with his troops from king. incidents and to settle the Tientsin to Peking, where he will Tsinan incident and the problem of taks up his headquarters in the treaty revision. Kinhan Building

troops.

DICTATOR OF SINKIANG.

(Wah Te Fat Peo),

SHANGHAI, Oct. 30th,

re-

ORIENTAL DEVELOPMENT CO, LOAN.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

PEIPING, Oct. 30th. General Chen Ming Shu's present

With reference to the Oriental journey to Peiping is to consult Development Company the Japan.) with General Per Chung Hai_re- ese Legation spokesman states that garding his military ratus. Gen, it is a misapprehension to assume Chen also brings a personal jetter that the loan will be employed for from Mr. Hu Han Min to General the development of Manchuria. It Pei, the main point of which is to will be used for the redemption of persuade him to take up the dieta-old loans.

Mr. W. G. Greenwood (Lib.) 8,874

Labour majority

2,406,

and

It is also notable that. the Red Army Communists in conference at Moscow passed a resolution to- day urging the adoption of extra- ordinary precautions in view of the alleged pernicious teachings in the Red Army of adherents of M. Trotsky,"

GERMAN LOCK-OUT

AVOIDED.

WAGES DISPUTE SETTLED.

ITBROUGH EXTER'S AORNCY.]

COLOGNE, Oct. 29th.

At the last General Election, The threat of the Rhineland and there was also a three-cornered Westphalian mill-owners to lock |fight, the result being:-Mr. Ho-out 100,000 textile workers failing man (Con.), 8,971; MF. C. L. L'E. settlement of the Muenchenglad Malone (Lab.), 7,451; Mr. H. T. bach wages dispute, has had the Greenwood (L.), 0,202..

desired effect, and the lock-out has been obviated.

PRINCE OF WALE'S

PROGRESS.

CHEERING CROWDS OF NATIVES.

The warning was given on the 12th, to take effect on Saturday, and the workers left it to the last minute before submitting.

Ministry.

The plane can remain in the air

Country Clubs, for forty hours, giving it a range

The Directors propose to hire or of something like 4,000 miles. To purchase and equip at least 22 up-

of the venture, to-date aerodromes: Cover the cost

in suitable £10,000 was raised by public sub-localities, and to establish ulti- scription in Australia.

The airmen propose to follow the route of Sir Alan Cobham. They will touch at Singapore, Calcutta,

capitals of Europe.

THE SPORT OF KINGS.'

IAN HAY AT HIS BEST.

RACE COURSE ATMOSPHERE

mately about 100 less elaborate landing grounds between the main tant centres, a small fleet of air- nerodromes. At the more impor

inaintained to give flying instruc craft and a staff of pilots will be

tion.

Alrendy the principal aerodrome near London has been secured, and this will be developed first and provided with a Country Club to attract visiting pilots Similar facilities will be provided at other aerodromes as the traffic develops and membership grows.

Temporary Subsidy.

A very

In its earlier years, the Com-. AND ITS APPEAL.

pany will ask assistance from the Air Ministry on similar lines to Rehearsals and general prepara: that now given to Light Acro- GENEVA, Oct. 20th. Unusual interest attaches to the tions for the Hong Kong Amateur plane Clubs. It is understood that examination by the Alandates Com Dramatle Club's opening Froduc- they will be willing to forego such mission of the New Zealand Gov-tion "The Sport of Kings,'

are assistance immediately ernment's report on the adminis proceeding apaes, and there is every modest percentage of profit or tration of Western Samoa, which indication of the earlier anticips their undertaking is exceeded.

tions of success being more than It is claimed by the Company New Zealand holds under a man-

realized. date from the League of Nations,

that its primary object is to foster the serious troubles With the advent of crook plays the development of civil aviation. owing to

absorbtion of Trans The Chairman will be unpaid. among the natives. The report de- and the

Atlantic humour, the farce, as tails the administration for the year ended March 30th, 1995, dur-understood a decade ago, has made less and less appeal every time it Parr, the New has made its appearance before Zealand High Commissioner present-day audiences, and it would London was present assisting the indeed be a very daring theatrical manager who to-day,, would take the financial risk of presenting such past successes as "Charley's Aunt,"

The Private Secretary" and half A Chinese was charged before a score of old-time favourites, we, W, Schofield at the Kowloon could mention, to the modern Magistracy yesterday morning with. public.

breaking or damaging an electric meter, the property of the China Light & Power Company.

in

Administrator, General' Sic George Richardson.

Sir George, in reply to questions by the Commission explained that the so-called "Citizens' Commit tee" still existed in the islands secretly, and evidence had been obtained that it was still in touch with the European agitator, Nel- son, who was banished from Samoa, by the Administrator's order.

The Citizens' Committee still contributed to the disfection of the natives by spreading false

news

Sir James Pair told the Commis- sion that the situation has con siderably improved during the last six months. The order maintain. ing the courts had been obeyed, but the Administration had had to deal with a kind of passive resis tance in the form of a refusal to He added that the pay taxes.

Mandatory Power was going to the limits of its patience before resort. ing to stronger measures

OBITUARY.

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TAMPERING WITH ELEC- TRIC METER.

SERIOUS. WARNING. TO PUBLIC.

And so, with perhaps the excep- tion of Oscar Wilde's classic of farce," "The Importance of Being Mr. C. R. Murray, who prosecut- Ernest," the rollicking type of ed on behalf of the Company, said play has fallen somewhat into dis- that as recently as June several favour. A tremendous pity per consumers were charged with steal haps. but the situation had to being vectricity and any tampering faced by managers and play-wrights with meters must be regarded as a alike, and the theatre going public very serious offence. catered for according to their mood of the moment.

His Worship: There is no ques- tion of stealing electricity in this case..

It is not however, to be admitted that farce, in its complete sense of, Mr. Murray remarked that any the word, is absolutely dead-a defect in the meters was always sense of the ridiculous will, we repaired immediately if a complaint trust, always remain with us; but was made, free of charge. It was

however most dangerous for inex perienced persons to touch the meters and cases of men being electrocuted while doing so had been recorded. Taking away the scal allowed easy removal of the cover and exposure of mechanista carrying 200 volts which might easily prove a fatal shock.

a revision was necessary.

The modern school of humourists were therefore coked to and the required vein found in Tan Hay, the wealth of whose keen wit had reached the far-flung English speak. ing races through his novels.

SIR LEWIS MICHELL.

Olever Humourous. Dialogue. ADVISER TO CECIL RHODES. In "The Sport of Kings." the The mechanism contained, inci- author has combined his well-tried dentally, the bridge which could be BRITISH WIEELIAS BERVICE} ability as a novelist with a natural adjusted to register less current

gift for stage-construction, with than was actually consumed. RUGBY, Oct. 29th.

the result that fatce though it be, The defendant said that there The death is announced from the play has been built up from was a defect in the wiring and he Capetown of Sir Lewis Michell, C.V.O., one of

prologue to elimax with a care removed the seal to put it right. Grand Old Men, who was Conf regard for detail usually only last Saturday morning the lights.

South Africa's

for ever-increasing interest and a The master of the shop said that

dential Financial Adviser to Cecil found in works of a more serious failed and he asked defendant, who Rhodes. He was 80 years of age. and dramatic kind. There is a con

was a customer, to put things right. Sir Lewis. Michell was a Director stant flow of clever, humourous His Werehip convicted, and of the British South Africa Com- dialogue, which never flags for being told that defendant was pany and for many

moment and the merriment result formerly employed by the Company General Manager of the Standarding from the abounding situations said that he should have known Bank of South Africa. He began is of a kind to banish dull care. better than to have interfered with his career as a junior clerk bank near Plymouth.

WIS yearB

He held office, without portfolio, in the Jameson Cabinet and was vention which led to the Union of also a member of the National Con-

South Africa."

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GERMAN LABOUR

"TROUBLES..

BIG LOCKOUTS THREATENED."

BERLIN, Oct. 26th. CAPABLANCA WINS AT

Germany's labour situation is [BRITI WLESS KERVICE)

BERLIN...

growing worse day by day, follow ing the decision of the Rhenish iron RUGBY, Oct. 23th.

industralists to establish a lockout Torship in Sinkiang in view of the The Oriental Development Com- H.R.H. the Prince of Wales is (THROCOH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

which involves 200,000 workers: fact that he is a Mohammedan and pany has operated chiefly in Korea, now returning to Kenya Colony

The Rhenish textile industralists BERLIN, Oct. 28th. is therefore well fitted to govern and the only investments in Man- from Liganda.

The International Chess Tourna have likewise decided on a lockout the Mohammedan population of the churia were some years ago during He passed through Kampala, the province.

the boom, when several millione native capital of Uganda, this ment concluded in Berlin to-day, against 150,000 workers, which is to General Pei is reported to be in were invested in immovable pro- morning. Thousands of natives and resulted in the first prize go become effective on October 27th.

It has been suggested that a com favour of this suggestion but he is perty such as houses, mainly in lined the route and cheered his ing to Capablanca, with a record determined to

of 8h point. Niemzowitsch with 7plete lockout in the German textile wait for practical Harbin. The company lost con- Royal Highness. plans from the Central Government siderably in this venture, after

industry may take place, which At Jinja, there

great points gained second place;

It is notable, however, that would cause unprecedented hard before leading his forces to Sia- which it confined its attentions to gathering of Chiefs and notables

Котел,

to bid him farewell.

Alekhine was not a competitor. ships and expense to the country, kiang.

on

The author has been happy in his the meter. "He would be fined $25 choice of a theme and the atmos with the alternative of one month's phere is charged and recharged hard labour. with the instinctive appeal that erowds, make in the hearts of all.. borseflesh, open-air and jolly

As already intimated the A.D.C. has gathered together an extremely capable caste for the occasion and

NEW GERMAN FLYING

* BOAT.

ail appear admirably suited to their LATEST TYPES OF AIRCRAFT respective parts... i.

First Performance November 16th.

TRIED OUT.

BERLIN, Oct. 23rd. The play will be presented at the

Tests of the Travemunde Ros- Theatre Royal, on Friday 16th, tra," the latest type of flying bost, Tuesday 20th and Saturday 24th have been started by the Rohrback November; and at the Star. Theatre, Airplane works and have been en- Kowloon on Thursday, November couraging thus far. 29nd the curtain rising at 8.15 each Providing the tests are complet- evening. There is a short prologue ed in satisfactory fashion, it is to the play, and as the interest beplanned to start service in mid- ging with this scene, it is hoped November from Vigo, on the west audiences will make an earnest coast of Spain, to Halifax by way endeavour to be in their seats on of the Azores and Bermuda, time.

The new Rostra abip has a cruis- Booking opeпs at Anderson'sing radius of 2,000 miles, it is an- Music Store on the morning of nounced. Accommodations for five passengers, in addition to the Thursday 1st November and the public will be well advised to seenre necessary pilots and crew, are pro-

vided. their tickets early.