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FIGHTING LIKELY

AT CHEFOO.

CHẲNG TSUNG

CHANG

REFUSES TO MEDIATE.

DECISION OF LIU CHEN NIEN.

(THROUGH RITER'S AGENCY.]

Cresco, Feb. 18th.. Liu Chen Nion has decided to put up a fight against the rebels, who are led by Shih Shy Chun, an ex-brigada commander under Chang Tsung Chang. If his plana mature, fighting may be expected in the vicinity of Chefoo is the next few days. Looting is feared and local merebants are panic atricken.

Liu Chen Nien is reported. to have requested. Chang Tsung Chang to mediate, but Chang has refused It is believed that he is behind the present movement against Liu..

MERCHANTS · PRECAU- TIONS.

According to naval wireless mes Bages, disturbances broke out at Chefoo City yesterday moming.

There is considerable unrest in the city, and Chinese merchants Have begun to store their goods in foreign godowns is a precaution against possible disorder.

General Lin Chen Nien is said to be parleying with the Fourth Army although it seems doubtful whether acceptable terms will ba tabled. It is rumoured that Gen. Liu's troops may turn against him at any moment.

A crisis is expected within the next few days.

PRINCE'S VISIT TO JAPAN.

FURTHER ARRANGEMENTS.

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It is learned that H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester, who is to head a mission to Japan to present the

SHOOTING AFFAIR AT HARBIN.

DRUNKEN RUSSIAN AT SOVIET CONSULATE.

TWO SHOTS FIRED.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

HARDIN, Feb. 13th. Yesterday an intoxfnated Russian called Manokooo called at the Soviet Consulate and demanded an interview with the Consul-General, At the same time he drew s ̈re- volver and fired two shots, but without causing any casualties. He was immediately disarmed by the staff and arrested by the Chinese authorities..

POPE BLESSES HUGE CROWDS.

A TRADITIONAL GREETING.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14th, 1929.

BIG INCREASE IN BRITISH KING WELL ENOUGH

TRADE

A NEW YEAR SPURT.

JANUARY'S HEAVY EXPORTS.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

Rugar, Feb. 12th. British overseas trado has started the New Year with a big spurt. The figures for January, given in

TO READ.

SEES PAPERS OCCASIONALLY.

TAKING PLENTY OF NOURISHMENT.

(THOUGH KEUTEE'S AGENET.]

LONDON, Feb. 13th. It is officially stated at Craigweil

Reuter understands that

BOMBAY RETURNING TO FROST AND ICE IN Telegrams in Brief.

NORMAL.

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POLICE ROUND UP BAD CHARACTERS.

CASUALTIES IN THE RIOTS.:

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY. 1

BOMBAY, Feb. 12th. There is every indication that the worst of the communal troubles are over, and the city is already

the Board of Trade returna, are House that the King passed & good rapidly returning to normal. higher both for imports and exporta night. than for many months past.

His Majesty's progress is such that he is now able occasionally to read The importa LEA valued at £118,000,000, showing an increase the newspapers. His Majesty is on of £14,500,000, compared with Den ordinary diet and takes plenty of cember, and of £15,500,000 compar

* Very Good." ed with the previous January

Exporte are £6,500,000 above those of December, at a total of

nearly £67,000.000. The increase compared with January, 1929, is £7,000,000,

January's total, of exports has been exceeded only once during the past two years, namely, in Novem- ber, 1917. Of the increase compar ed with the previous January, no less than £5,500,000 is accounted for by articles wholly or mainly manu-

ROME, Feb. 12th. Responding to an insistent de. mand from the vast multitude which assembled outside St. Peter's | factured,, to-day, on the occasion of the cele bration of the anniversary of the

the

Coronation of Pope Pius XI., and of the settlement of the Roman question between the Vatican and Italian Government. the Sovereign Pontiff, escorted by his Cardinals and Prelates, appeared on the balcony and bestowed an apostolic benediction.

A wave of emotion swept the con: course in the great square when, after a four hours wait in the cold and rain, the Pope made his ap-

pearance.

The troops on parade presented arms and the great crowd sank to: their knees while the Pope blessed them.

After the benediction, the crowd" raised a hurricane of cheers for

The Pope, and the King."

The cry "Long Live the Pope and the King" was the traditional greeting of the Popes before they retired into self-imposed imprison.

The outstanding increases under this heading are:-Vehicles, in-

craft, £1.623,000; iron and steel and manufactures thereof, £1,103,000; cotton yarns and manufactures, £812,000.

nourishment.

A

It wu officially stated at:

t:Craig. well House on Tuesday evening that His Majesty had spent a very good day, and this report is regard. ed as extremely satisfactory as it is the first time that the phrase " very good" has appeared in any official report.

The Air Ministry has notified air pilots to refrain from flying within four miles of Craigwell House during the residence of the King.

For the first time since her ar rival at Bognor, the Queen went for a drive this afternoon.........

Snow in the South of England

EUROPE.

MANY DISASTERS CAUSED BY COLD,

SHIPPING PERILS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S JÖKYCY.]

LONDON, Feb 19th. The terribly cold weather which swept over the British Isles yester

Continent, continued to day, and, day with the bitter winds from the indeed, seems to be getting steadily worse.

The police are busily engaged in rounding up the bad characters, who have used the disturbances as a cloak for mischief, and already

In London last night, the thermo- 493 persons have been 'detained,

meter dropped to 20 degrees Fahrenheit, registering 18 degrees The total casualties during the of frost, and all day to-day there ricts are placed as 137 killed, and 7830 seriously injured as to re quite detention in hospital,

OBITUARY.

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LADY HUGO DE BATHE.

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LILY LANGTRY DIES OF INFLUENZA.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,]

LONDON, Feb. 12th. The Evening New learns from

cluding locomotives, ships and air-s been slight hitherto, but the Monte Carin that Lady Hugo De out in the forenoon, and Craigweiltry), the famous Victorian beauty, frost is intense. The un broke Bathe (formerly. Mrs. Lily Lang- House was bathed in warm rays, died of influenza today at her villa which poured into the King's bed.

Lady De Bathe had been ill at roon. The King's bed was wheel-

Nice with bronchitis for three ed to the window of his room so that he could enjoy the su

The imports of raw cotton and cotton waste show an aivance of £7,012,200, which suggests a revival of trade in Lancashire.

UNFAIR ATTACKS ON BRITAIN.

CANADA'S RESENTMENT AT U.S. ATTITUDE

PREMIER DEPRECATES

CRITICISM.

(THROUGH AKUTER'S AGENCY.]

OTTAWA, Feb. 12th.

The strong feeling of resentment

A FASCINATING POLICE- WOMAN.

ADMIRER ARRESTED FOR "OBSTRUCTING HER."

$

A. young man's love for a police woman led to his appearance at Hampstead Police Court" on charge of wilfully obstructing Policewoman Browning in the ex ecution of ber duty,

weeks.

was practically to improvement. The cold is still accentuated by the

cast wind.

The Trocadero On Fire. There is дл arctic bleakness everywhere in Britain to-day and still colder weather is predicted. Railway and road traffic in Britain.

The Earl of Granard represented H.M the King at a solemn Requiem Mass for the late Queen Marie of Spain, held at St. James' Church London. The Spanish Ambassador and members of the Embassy staff attended in uniform. Among others present were Sir Lionel Halsay, representing the Prince of Wales, and Mr. Walford Selby, representing Sir. Auston Chamber- Iaia

had informal conversations

The Prime Minister yesterday both Mr. Macdonald and Mr. with

form which an inquiry into the Lloyd George the late Labour and

economic aspects of the channel Liberal Premiers, to consider the

scheme should take

The President of the Board of Trade stated in the House of Com owners' Associations to the mem mons that the reply from the Ship- oranda on overloading of ships, which was addressed to them by the Board, showed a considerable mea sure of agreement with the Board's suggestions, and promised active co-operation and assistance. Ar. rangements would be made as soon ter with representatives of the as possible for discussing the mat Associations."

The number of registered anem-

as on the Contirent, has been seri.ployed in the latest returns shows- ously delayed, and a number of a reduction of nearly 25,000 on the deaths from cald have occurred.

preceding week.

The The Trocadero Restaurant in the Bureau, to which the Naval Con- United States Budget West End of London was damaged struction Bill has been submitted by fire early this morning. The for estimates of monetary appro intense frost froze the water from priatione, has recommended that s

burning building while pavements G.848,000,000 to G.830,000,000 be the hoses and foicles hung from the small amount be set aside in the current fiscal year and that from and roadways were converted into appropriated in the Escal year a akating nk.

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1908 in London and it is over forty Coldest For 20 Years. Tuesday was the coldest day since years since such cold has been ex perienced in February. Last night the minimum temperature in Lon-

ending on June 30th, 1930,

daughter, Anne, to Colonel Charies Mr. Dwight Morrow, the Ameri- announced the engagement of his can Ambassador to Mexico, has

Lindbergh, the atlantic airman. It will be recall

famous Tran

don was 21 deg. Fahrenheit, but ed that Col Lindbergh was enter- She was born in Jersey in Octo- much lower readings were register tained by the Morrow family in ed in the suburbs and in the pro-Mexico City during his goodwill vinces, while in Scotland and Wales fight round South and Central" the cold was again intense. The America. bitter east wind has however moderated.

ber, 1859, and was the daughter of the Vory Rev. W. C. Le Breton, the Dean of Jersey.

Her real names. were Emelia

Heavy snowfalls in Scotland and Charlotte, but early in life she was Wales have greatly hampered com- nicknamed "Lily" and she became munications. The London to Glas knows later as the "Jersey Lily." the freezing of the water in the gow express was delayed owing to "At an early age the married Ed-railway troughs, and on arrival ice ward Langtry, an Irish landowner, coaches had to be broken through which had collected between the who had come to the islands in his before they could be separated. jacht,

Two trains which were caught in Millais, Poynter, Watts, Barne- imprisoned throughout yesterday, aanowdrift, near Stranraer were Jones, Whistler and many other result of work by snow ploughs And but have now been released as the artists painted her and Queen a gang of 190 a. At Penydroes Victoria remained long after her rear Carnarvon passenger train was snowed up throughout Monday layed rail traffic in many parts of the country.

Road Traffic.

"Order of the Garter to the Em-ment in the Vatican after the loan in Canada "against unfair attacks when he saw Collett by the White usual time at a drawing room, in night, while frozen points have de-.

perot, will on coming East board "H.M.S. Suffolk, one of the new County cruisers, and complete the last stage of his journey on her.

SOMERSETSHIRE IN TROUBLE.

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"

TRANSPORT, RETURNS TO

SINGAPORE-

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of temporal power.

THE GLASGOW EXPRESS SMASH.

'DRIVER AND FIREMAN KILLED.

:

train in the early hours of this morning at a speed of fifty-miles an

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

RUGBY, Feb. 12th. An express passenger train which left London last night for Glasgow, The transport Dorsetshire, pro- ceeding from Colombo to Hong with a large complement of passen- Kong with drafte for various regi-gers, collided head-on with a goods ments in China, has been ordered to Singapore in order to tranship those aboard the transport, Somer- setshire which is returning to Singapore with engine trouble.

Both transports are due to arrive at Singapore today. It is anti- cipated that the Dorectshire will il for Hong Kong late to-morrow afternoon.

hour.

The collision "occurred just out- side Chesterfield in Derbyshire, the the express was partially derailed. nearest place being Alfreton, and The express driver and the fire- man were missing for some time, but rescue workers found their dead

on Great Britain by Americans was manifest in the Canadian Parliament to-day, during the dis cussion on the Address in Reply to the Speech from the Throne.

The Address in Beply was up proved by the Commons without division after only five hours "dis- debate, the cussion, but in the course of the Conservative Party leader, Mr. Bennett, alluding to the Bill for the Ratification of the Kellogg Pact which is to come before the House during the present Session, ventured a strong protest against the violence of the anti-British attacks by influential Americans, attacks which he charac terised as being quite unjustified.

He expressed the opinion, that, in ratifying the Pact, Canada ought to voice its resentment at such attacks!

bodies in the debris of the engine The Somersetshire left Singapore which was a mass of wreckage. on Friday with the 2nd Battalion

The Premier, Mr. None of the passengers was in-

Mackenzie Wiltshire Regiment on board, des- tined for Shanghai, but was forced jured, through the fortunate circum- King, deprecated criticism of a to return when 700 miles from stance that the four leading vehicles neighbouring people as fraught with Singapore with a broken crack-pulled by the express were parcel the possibility of mischief, and em shaft.

vana "All these were derailed by barrassing to international amity. the smash, but the passenger coaches behind held the rails.

It is expected that the Somerset shire will be out of commission for five weeks while she is being over- hauled.

DRIVER STONED "IN MELBOURNE.

EXCITING CHASE OF STRIKER,

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENcr.]

MELBOURNE, Feb. 13th. Strikera in the timber dispute here have stoned the driver of a timber waggon One of the demon- strators was arrested after a long chase during which the police, fred over the bead of the fugitive. Eleven firms in Sydney are ad Tertising for free labour.

KABUL EVACUATION DELAYED.

Saveral of the passengers receiv ed a shaking, but no-one seems to have been hurt The driver and freman of the goods train niso es caped.

ANOTHER BYE-ELECTION..

DEATH OF MEMBER FOR BATH.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

RUGBY, Feb. 19th.

This creates another bye-election, But it is noteworthy that Bath is

strong Conservative seat.

belief of Sir Austen Chamberinin that the United States, signed the Pact in good faith and intended living up to it.

He would prefer to endorse the

He was Sidney Collett, & flower trader, of Willoughby-road, Hamp- stead.

Police Inspector Charles Clayden atated that he was standing at Upper Heath on Saturday" evening Stone Pond. Policewoman Brown- ning came out of East Heath-read at eight p.m. and turned to her right. Collett then moved in front of her and engaged her in versation. He went towards them and Collett ran off, but was chased and arrested. He had seen Collett obstructing Policewoman Browning sime he ran away when approached. on two previous occasions, and each

con-

"Hi Bent Photographs." Policewoman Browning said that Collett stepped in front of her and began to tell her that he had left a parcel for her. He had written letters to her and sent photographs and presents

Collett, on oath, said that he was in love with the policewoman and he thought that the feeling was mutual.

order to see the famous beauty, "who was late in appearing." She became a member of the set of the Prince and Princess of Wales, and Oscar Wilde, who was one of her

many admirers, wrote a long poem to "The New 'Helen," while his play "Lady Windermere's Fan "

Road traffic is much more serious- that the conditions near Stranraer ly disorganised. Inhabitants state are even worse than during the about one hundred motor-cara are great blizzard of 1895. Buses and wasenowed up in neighbourhood. In vices have also been suspended, and South Wales many motor 'bus ser- numerous accidenta due to skids on ice-bound roads occurred yesterday, while scores of vehicles were aban doned in snow-drifts

composed for her. Among her many distinguished friends were Ruskin and Gladstone.

Steering Gear Frozen. The steamer Peel Castle with nearly a hundred passengers on hours

Mr. W. M. Bruce, the Australian Federal Fremier, announces that he has given assurances of Austra lian co-operation in a weekly air- ship service between Great Britain and Australia, if thorough examin ation of relevant subjects reveali that Australia, will derive advan tages therefrom.

ampton flying boats, each fitted A fight of Supermarine South- with two Napier Lion engines, of

the

in

cruised, for several months

same type as those which eastern waters and are now based at Singapore, will leave Plymouth Empire flying boat "base is to be on Thursday for Basra, where an established.

The Greek Chamber. has adopted

Bill for the ratification of the Graeco-Italian Pact of Arbitration and Friendship, recently concluded Venizelos. between Signor Mussolini and. M.

a comparison with the Arctic con ditions prevailing all over Europe, which have already been productive of many ghastly tragedies.

Poland, that many deaths have It is reported from Warsaw, Mra Langtry's enormous success

occurred from the cold, and news. in society, put a very heavy strain upon her husband's resources, and

has just reached. the capital of a horrifying discovery by soon their London house had to be

forest guards, who came across a whole sold. Lily Langtry then turned to

gipsy band of thirty-four persons, the stage, making her first appear-board was exposed for sixteen men, women and children, who had She smiled at me the first time ance as Kate Hardcastle in we met," he added, and she said.. Stoops to Conquer" at a charity and tremendous seas on a voyage All had been frozen to death. She

to a blinding snowstorm encamped jo' a' forest near Lublin. Ob, you naughty boy, because I had been speaking to another young She was then engaged at a very

matinee at the Haymarket in 1881. yesterday from Douglas, Isle of

Black Sea Blocked.. Man, to Liverpool

Sofa, the capital of Bulgaria, 18 woman, I have never done any- f high salary and made her protes | pool landing stage at two o'clock in the throes of the bitterest winter thing without encouragement."

The vessel was due at the Liver. sional debut in Ours." He was bound over for twelve

yesterday afternoon, but she did from Burgas and Varas, Bulgarian for over a century. It is learned months in the sum of fo

In 1882 she toured the provinces not arrive at the early hours of ports in the Black Sea, that the with great success, especially in this morning. Manchester, Edinburgh and Glas- It was revealed on her arrival Black Sea is blocked with ice and gow and played for a season at the that she had met with a most ex- that all ports have been closed to. Imperial Theatre,, London, with her traordinary difficulty. The icy gale

Davigation, own company. After making a con- froze the mixture of glycerine and quest of America in the first of water which covered her steering many tours there she took over the rods when he was off the Far Prince's Theatre, London, and at lightship at two o'clock in the various times managed at St. afternoon, being already late on James's, the Princess's, the Opera account of the rough passage, Comique and the new Imperial In 1905-6 she toured. South Africa, Pening a new theatre at Johannes

FUGITIVE FROM AN ASYLUM.

ALLEGED INFATUATION FOR A SERVANT.

"An educated man's alleged in. fatuation for a maideervant led to

his

appearance

burg. at Marylebone

BISHOP OF CHICHESTER.

Channel Wreck,

+

The ico extends far beyond sight of the sbore and is so thick that skating is possible along the coast. The scene is unprecedented since

1849.

The authorities are only main taining railway transport with the utmost dificulty and a food crisis in Bulgaria is feared.

BOY'S DEATH AFTER VACCINATION..

The ship was completely helpless in the angry seas and anchor was SLEEPY, SICKNESS CASE "IN Police Court. He was Cecil Charles

immediately dropped, while the A MILLION."

engineers dismantled the steering Palhill, aged thirty-eight, and was

Her career

This was later reassembled described as a university man and

on the turf began gear. with the gift of a colt and she raced aid the anchor was weighed and

West Baltic Mishaps.". "It is a cease in a million, and Sanscrit scholar, of Abbey Road, under the name of "Mr. Jersey," she resumed her trip to Liverpool the ice has held up over thirty From Berlin it is learned that I have sent the details to Professor St. John's Wood.

a venture that was looked at sak. shortly before midnight. Turnbull, of the London Hospital," | Polhill was charged on WAT-

steamers in the West Baltic Bome ance. She proved very successful The death is announced of said Dr. Johns, of the Poplar Hoscant with wilfully and wantonly and after a time had a large racing

of these ice-bound vessels have Captain C. T. Foxcroft, the Con-pital, at a Poplar inquest on Sidney disturbing Mrs. Flora Caroline stable, being probably the beat cross-Channel

It now appears that the Belgian already mam out of their provisions, servative member for Bath. Harry Crowe, aged eight, who was Solomon, the occupier of a house known lady owner on tht turg.

steamer Ville de while others are so damaged that tis lethargica (sleepy sickness) after the servant was formerly employ married Sir Hugo De Bathe in 1899. of the Dover landing stage, has not rescue work, have found them atated to have died from encephali- in St. John's Wood, Park, where After Mr. Langtry had died, she Liege which was reported to have they are no longer navigable.

sunk within a few hundred yards he was waccinated.

German cruisers, engaged in ed, by ringing the door bell with- Dr. Johns said that it was a rare out lawful excuse.

actually gone down though she has crea severely hampered by the condition set up by a defect in the Mr. Engelbach, who prosecuted,

been badly damaged. calf lymph, a Casual organism said that last August Polhill was

ica and Government aeroplanes The vessel appears to be resting are being employed to supply the The death is announced of the having been introduced into the medically examined by order of Mr. Rt. Reverend Winfrid Oldfield a bank, fast on some rocks. ordinary vaccine. The condition Hay Halkett, the magistrate, and Burrows, D.D., Bishop of Chiches can be seen, but this morning some

Only a small part of her hull vessels with food. was, in fact, denied to exist by was sent to an asylum." He had ter since 1919. Educated at Eton, of her mails were taken off at low

Leyden's Disaster.". escaped from the asylum for the Corpus Christi and Christ Church,

Meanwhile, all Holland is aghast" The coroner: But you have put second time, and Mt. Hay Halkett Oxford, he had a fine scholastic tide, and an attempt was to have at the destruction of the Town it down se the cause of death personally witnessed an assault by record. Soon after taking his de. The crew and passengere were down with its priceless art treasures been made later to get her of Hall at Leyden, which was" burnt That is the only diagnosis one can bim. Polhill, in an effort to get gree he was appointed a tutor of brought ashore safely by the Dover and archives.

into the house where Min. Solomon Christ Church; a post which be Does it not prove that the con- lived, kicked and cracked a door held until 1891, when he was made terrible hardships by reason of the motor-lifeboat. All had suffered ditinn does exist -Yes. It implies panel, and threatened to kill me. Principal of the Leeds Clergy freezing of the spray which bespat that a casusi organism was intro- bera of the household. ... duced into the vaccine.

School.

From 1904 until 1910 he was Archtered their clothing. The coroner adjourned the case A remand was ordered, and Mr.deacon of Birmingham, after which for further inquiries and for the Bingley, the magistrate, directed ho became Bishop of Truro, moving attendance of the doctor "who per- that Pobil should be medically in 1919 to Chichester. He was 71 formed the vaccination.

examined.

at the time of his death.

CHINESE ATTACKED IN PHILADELPHIA,

INVESTIGATOR BEATEN BY

ROBBERS.

BAD WEATHER AND SNOW.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]

RUGBY, Feb. 13th. "Bad weather and snow prevent

(THROUGH REUTER's agency.) ed further evacuations from Kabul yesterday. On Monday four Royal

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 13th. Air Force

Mr. Yai Lo, who is at present Victoria machines brought 58 passengers to Peshawar, studying stock exchange methods comprising fifty British Indian bere on behalf of the Chinese subjects, including 38 women and Government, bas been severely children, five Germans including beaten by robbers and has been two from the Lemation, one Per- taken to hospital Fifty-five stitches mian and two Afghans.

had to be put in his head.

воде,

maks.

Polhill It is all lies, sir.

Gipsy Band Wiped Out. however, are comparatively trivial The experiences in Great Britain, (Continued on next Volume)..

Princes Julians, theading the The tremendous blaze, was wit nessed by thousands, including the at Leyden University. The appl. ances of five Fire Brigades were on the scene, but they were power less to stem the blaze owing to the acvere frost.