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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 10th, 1928.

THE KING'S ILLNESS.

(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7.). Optimistic Views.

A mare hopeful toos is creeping into authoritative public utterances regarding the King's progress.

HAPPY RUSSIA'!

ANOTHER BATCH FOR SIBERIA

STALIN'S TYRANNY, (THROUGH HAVIKA'S AGENCY.]

Moscow, Dec. 8th.

REGIMENTAL SPORTS.

QUEEN'S AT SUN WAI

TRAINING CAMP.

As part of their training while under csavas at Sun Wai, in the New Territories, the 1st Battalion The Queen's Royal Regiment held For example. Sir Robert Arm!!

their held sports on Saturday. The At the latest Supreme Court trial, strong Jones, the world-famous-

of thirty employees of the Com: programme included all the features mental specialist, described the missariat of Communications on

of military athletic contests and were well carried out in spite of marning, bulletin. which stated charges of bribery, embezzlement the unevenness of the track, that the King had gained restful and other offences four engineers the officers bandicap. Lieut. Evaly Tomchuk, yin, Zinchenko and sleep, and that his general strength Sakharoft, were each sentenced to and Leas Dickinson ran a dead- was maintained, as "the most com ten years imprisonment and heat. The results were as under forting since the King's illness."

Lord Lee of Fareham to-night aid that owing to medical science. there was now every prospect of a speedy and happy, recovery,

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"His Majesty's symptoms are im proving and the situation is less anxious says a message from Buckingham Palace, signed by a private, secretary, and received by the Norfolk Yeomanry Old Com rades Association in reply to message hoping for the King's speedy recovery

SATURDAY.

Some Hours Of Sleep... BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.}

RUGBY, December 5th.

This morning bulletin issued at

11.55 a.m. was as follows:-

The King has had some hours of sleep. His temperature is still raised on account of the local con- dition of one lung.

His general condition is the

same.

twenty-three others to terms of imprisonment ranging from one to eight years. »

Three were acquitted.

Ruthless.

BERLIN, Dec. 8th. The news from Russia shows that Stalin in ruthlessly suppressing the adherents of Trotsky, batches of whom he is sending to convict settlements in the Solovietsk Islands and Kem where are respec. tively, 97,000 and 20,000 prisoners. including many dignitaries and hundreds of laymen of the Roman Catholic Church.

They are being treated most bar. hurously by the Soviet gaolera.

3,214 prisoners at Solobietak are said to have. perished during the pass year.

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Saunders; L/Cpl. Miles: 3, Lient Throwing Cricket Ball-1, Pte. Foord; 4, Cpl. Ives. Distance: B

yards.

100 Yards Race.-1, L/Opl. Per- cival; 2, Pte. Saunders; 3 Lieut. Foord: L/Cpl. Cooling. Times: 11..sees.

220 Yards Corporals Race-1, L/Cpl. Percival; 2, L/Cpl Cooling, Time: 28.1-5 seco

Lung Jump-1, Pts. Cumnar; 2, Lieut. Realy; 3, Pte. Curtis; 4 L/Sgt. Hooper. Distance: 18 lect

880 Yards Race.-1, Pte. Hutch ints; 2, Pte. Warner; 3, L/Sgt. Martin. Time: 2.14.2-3 secs.

100 Yards Boys' Race.-1, Boy "Durrant; 2, Boy Stacey; 3, Boy

Prothero.

Chiang Kai-Shek's Son Among the latest consignment of political prisonora is a group of Chinese youths, who declared sol, darity with Radek, including the son of Chiang Kai Shek.

NANKING, Dec. Sth. Marshal Chiang Kai Shek's Chief of Staff, interviewed by Reuter re- garding the foregoing cable, stated that Chiang Kai Shek has received no news of his son's arrest and that their relations are bad, the aon having attacked his father in speeches and statements at Alos- cow; but Chiang Kai Shek request. Reuter to investigate the rea- sons for the arrest..

We are informed from a Chinese source that Chiang Kai Shek's son is, actually, un adopted son.]

Signed STANLEY HEWITT DAWSON OF PENN. The non-disclosure of any appre-ed ciable amount of pleural effusion is considered by some-to-be-a-distinct- ly hopeful sign but others stated that it can be considered peither as a good nor a bad sign. Their view is that had there been pleural effusion in large quantities.certain active sters could have been taken which might have had the effect of shorten- ing the duration of the trouble. A it is no such steps can be taken and ordinary passive treatment.will be reguwed

A Denial

"Moscow, Dec. 9th. The newspaper report of the arrest of the son of Chiang Kai Shek is semi-cfficially declared a pure invention and it is added that there have been no arrests in Moscow or elsewhere of Chinese.

FRENCH POLITICAL-FINAN-

CIAL SCANDAL.

SCHEME TO RESTORE THE FRANC.

PROMOTERS - ARRESTED.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.

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"Public Sympathy Unabated.

LONDON, December 8th. Public sympathy and interest is unabated at the third week-end of H.M. the King's illness; but the more hopeful developments of the

PARIS, Dec. 7ta. past week, added to. the fact that Financial and political circles have experienced a first class s2n- the night was the coldest, this winter, no doubt, were the reasonssation in the arrest of Madame for the few inquirers who called arthe Hannu and her divorced husband, Lazare Bloch, in couner- at the Palace gates towards day tion with what is described as one break than on previous mornings." of the most colossal financial swin-

Eight degrees of frost were re-dies in French records. gistered in the Palace grounds. The clear atmosphere is a welcome change to the past day's logs.

Kews Sent To Trains And Steamers,

LONDON, December 8th. As the morning bulletin was issued after the "Flying Scotsman" expresses had left London and Edinburgh respectively the L.N.ER arranged for copies to be obtained from the Post Office at York and handed to the train attendants on both trains for the benefit of pas sengers.

It was also arranged that all bulletins should be sent by wireless the night steamers between Harwich and the Book of Holland

to

and Antwerp.

ы.

Duchess of York At Church Aruny Shelter.

Both are accused of huge frauds at the expense of small investors. Madame directed a vast share in the investment organisation of the Paris "Gazette due Franc" found- ed in 1926 with the avowed idea of restoring public confidence in the franc.

The Gazette boosted the shares of her companies, published articles

several ministers and well- known authorities and once the front page was devoted to a letter from M. Poincare.

The crush came when inquiries were opened on her proposal to issue bonds of 170,000,000 francs at a high intereat.

920 Yards Race.-1. Lieut. Kealy.

Licut Foord; 3, Pte. Saunders: 4, L/Cpl. Cooling Time: 26.1-0

es

High Jump 1 L/Cpl. Watling: L/Cpl. Sharp; 3, Lieut. Kealy. Height: 5 feet 3 inch.

Putting the Weight-1, Lieut Realy; 9, Pte. Saunders; 3, Pte. Stannard; 4, C.S.M. Watford. Distance: 34 feet 4 inch.

440 Yards Race.-1, Pte. Shand- ers: 2, L/Sgh. Martin; 3, L/Sgt. Hooper. Time: 35.3-5 secs.

V.O. Race-1, D/Cpl. Gray; 2, Pte. Bradford.

Throwing the Discus.-1, Lieut. Kenly, Etc. Boon: 3, Sgt. Wyles: L/Cpl. Miles. Distance: 98 feet

6 inch

Pole Jump-1, L/Cph Percival: 2, L/Cpl. Gray; 3,-Pte. Märtin.-

Bareback Mule Race-1, L/Opt. Gray; 2, Pte. Stears.

Sack Race.-1, Pte. Lewry; 2, Pte. Fowler.

Pillow Fighting.-1, Pte. Nash: 2, Pte. Crafts.

Old Soldiers' Race.-1, C.S.M. Watford; 2, Q.M.S. Wakeford.

Tug-of-War-1, "C" Coyl; 2 DCoy.; 3, MG. Cox.

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One Mile (Indian Troops)----1, Naik Nursang 2, L/N. Hassar Shah; 3, Driver Gainda

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Officers Race.-1 Lieut Faals and Leut. Dickinson (dead hent).

20 Yards (Indian Troops).—1, Naik Narsang 2, Mobd. Khan; 3, | Buggat Rham

Inter-Coy. Relas-1, "D" Coy. (Pte. Dry, Pte. Warner, Pte. Kendall, Lieut.. Kealy); 9, H.Q. Coy.;.3, M.G. Coy."

Boys' Race 440 yards Handicap.-- 1. Boy Crauch: 2, Boy Corby 3. Boy Wilson.

Sergeante Race-1, Sgt. McCoy¦ 2, Sgt. Mallion; 3, Sgt. Twitchen,

Band Race-1, Bdsm Winter; 2, Bdsm. Dodson.

One Mile (teams to count), "D" Coy: 2, H.Q. Coy.; 3. M.G. Coy. (Pte. Warner of "D"

was the first man home).

3 Mile Race.-1 Pte. Storey; ? L/Cpl. Rowbottom; 3, Pte, Wool- lards. The winning team of six were the M.G. Coy.

INSULT TO INJURY. ROBBERS VICTIMISED FARM

ERS IN SHATIN.

CHILDREN HELD FOR RANSOM.

Not satisfied with robbing a An examination of the books is family of farmers in a ribage at alleged to show an uncovered de Shatin, a gang of five armed rob

ficit of £500,000.

It is alleged that a number of de-bers added insult to injury to their puties are involved in the scandal.victims by kidnapping two children, a boy and a girl, aged 5 and 4 years A. Pointare, in the Chamber, When the Duchess of York visited the Church Army's new shelter in which judging by the cartloads of

promised a thorough investigation respectively, for ransom,

In the early hours of yesterday Waterloo Road this morning she and documents, seized at the Gazette morning, a matshed occupied by a the little band of Church Army office, will likely be very pro-brother and three others, was en- vegetable gardener, his mother and workers around her stood with bowed heads in the silent prayer for the King and the National Anthem was then sung.

W

The Evening Bulletin.

Rroby, December 8th.

The following bulletin was issued

at 8.35 this evening:

tracted.

MANILA SHOWS. VERY LARGE ATTENDANCE.

A very large crowd of nearly

to be

tered by five men, three of when were armed with revolvers Speak. ing the Punti dialect, they bran dishing their weapons told the armed men then began, binding inmates to keep quiet. The two

tematic search of, the shed was and gagging their victims. A sys The King has passed a quiet 3,000 people attended the opening made and when the total foot was day with some sleep. The raised of the Manila Shows on the Praya asembled, which was only to the temperature persists because the East Reclamation on Saturday inflammation of the lung must of night. The show opened at 8 p.m. total value of 37.40, the brigands They then con- necessity be slow in its progress were crowds waiting for the doors ceived the plan of making their

but long before this time there felt dissatisfied. towards repair.

the visit worth while by kidnapping a opened. Amongst Signed STANLEY HEWEST,

H. GRAHAM HODGSON, numerous side-shows and attrae boy and a girl who were on the

premises. tions were rides on the Merry-go- FUBQUHAR BUZZand,

The two youngsters sent up the the Ferris Wheel, HUMPHRY ROLLESTON,

Round, Caterpillar, and the Seaplane, and piteous wail, but were soon sub. DAWSON OF PENN.

Rumerous side shows, including dued by brutal force. The matter "the World's Tallest Man," "the

was reported to the Police and up MORE PUBLIC MONEY

to's late hour last night, no trace Champion Tattooed Lady," 辞 LOST.

miniature circus with trick cyclists of the desperadoes was found. and other interesting turns, variety show,, the Mysterious Blon-" dell, the fire-cater, Looping the Loop in a huge Globe of Death,' and a reproduction of a Hawaiian village with hula-hula dancers Of the side shows the Fire Eater is perhaps the best, while the hula The loss of a consignment of hula dancers were exceedingly Treasury notes worth £5,000, whilst clever.

"

£3.000 STOLEN BETWEEN LONDON AND HONG KONG.

(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE).

LONDON, Dec. 7th.

in transit between London, and On Sunday "the entrance to

NAVAL MOVEMENTS. According to a naval wireless received here on Baturday, it is stated that H.M.8. Kent (flagship) and H.M.8. Berwick left Yokohama on Friday for Hong Kong, and are due here on Wednesday.

H.M.S. Suffolk left Yokohama

Hong Kong, is disclosed in the the" shows" was packed for hours, on Saturday for Woosung, the port Treasury Chest Account for 1997, the turnstiles being unable to cope of Shanghai which is issued to-day.

This has been written off as a loss in the Profit and Loss section

of the account.”

with the number of patrons. All H.M.S. Hermes, the aircraft the attractions did well, and the carrier, loft. Jesselton on Friday. place presented a right merry and arrived at Kudat in the courie

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