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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1929.

BY MAIL, WIRE, AND

WIRELESS.

Paris Marc Sagnier, the well known lender of the Young Re- Fublic," is planning a "crusade" of the young generation in favour of peace and international 'under- standing. A large number of de- monstrations are to be held in August next throughout France in which delegations from similar organizations in the neighbouring countries are expected to take part. Berlin. The Minister of Posts announces that the German postal administration intends to and maintain its own air mail service between Berlin and. Con- stantinople.

Vladivostok-The Soviet system has been introduced at the order of the Moscow authorities among the nomad tribes in the region of Qlsk in Kamchatka where until now the bends of the various tribes ruled with absolute power,

Nanking.. Liu Tah personal representative of General Chang Hauch Liang, arrived from Shenyang (Mukden) and called on President Chiang Kai Shek at the State Council Building to submit a detailed report of the administra- tion of Party affairs in the North- eastern Provinces as well as of the result of the enforcement of dis- Landment measures throughout Manchuria,

Belgrade. The Jugoslav Govern- ment is considering a decrea pro- riding for one week's compulsory labour annually for all males in- gluding foreigners residing in the country, and of between 21 and 51 years of age. These labour onscripts will be employed in re- pairing and extending the coun- try's road system,

A

A.P.C. OFFICIAL'S ADVENTURES.

IN THE HANDS OF BANDITS.

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FULL STORY OF NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH.

[British United"Press,]

Haokow.

Chinees Government

LAUNCHES COLLIDE. IN HARBOUR.

GOVERNMENT VESSELS

INVOLVED.

TWO COLLISIONS REPORTED.

There was some excitement da the waterfront near Blake Pier, yesterday, when the stean-launch Stanley was about to go alongside the pier at 6.30 p.m.

The launch had on board à large party of picnickers and as it was being mancurred into position to allow the party to land on the Pier, it ran into the stern of No. 2 Post Office launch.

The Stanley was also damaged on the bow, but not to any great ex- bent. No one on either launch was injured.

Portland, Ore.-Through arrange- Inents with the Library Association Board here, the Society of Oregon Artists bave made it possible for the public to borrow pictures for home enjoyment in much the same way that books are lent, according to a report by Mrs., Harold Dick- sor Marsh, secretary of the society.forces are restoring order in Hunan openPictures are lent from the art room Province following a sporadic reign.

of the public library for one month of terror marked by murder, loot and may be renewed for another month, a fine of 10 cents a daying, arson and assaults on foreign- being charged in case a picture is ers by 4,000 Divine Soldiers,** kept over the allotted time,

notorious Runanese bandits "who Edmonton, Alta-Second place sacked the among the Provinces

prosperous city of of the Dominion in. its per capita Changtch, one of the leading trad. According ton police report there national wealth is held by Alberta,ing centres of Hunan, '

was a collision earlier in the day, the figures for this Province as an-

For 13 days during April Chang The steam-launch Ledka is reported some 200 yards of Stonecutters. Meng,nounced by the Dominion Bureau

of Statistica.being 83,608. The first tch was a bloody battleground be to have run into the stern of the place in per capita national wealth tween rival bandit gangs and co-launch Waytoons, doing damage to is held by British Columbia, this tending military factions

the extent of 891 figure being placed at 83,844. dreds of civilians. were slaughtered Bournemouth. - Miss Veronica in the streets and some foreigners Pilkington, fourth daughter of the subjected to brutalities. Native late Sir Lionel Pilkington, Bt., of women were attacked and left "to Clevet Park, Wakefield, died in the die in the open. Buchanan Hospital, St. Leonard's on-Sea, following an operation for septic poisoning. Misi Pilkington was at work on her farm at Why down, near Bexhill, some days ago when she was kicked on the leg by a cow, The wound. became septic.

New York. The letter George Washington wrote in reply to a sote of thanks passed by the Mary land Assembly in 1781 was sold at Sothebys in London for £500, and will go back to Maryland.

Los Angeles-A school of citizen- ship and public administration bas been established by the University of Southern California, in the civic entre area, to care for the needs of government employees. Courses range from public speaking to power and light bureau administra tion. Evening classes make it possible for all employees who wish to learn more of their city or county's administration to do so without dropping any of their work. The school is under direc- tion of Emery E. Olson, and its courses are designed to give prac- tical rather than purely academic instruction.

Victoria, B.C.-The Government of British Columbia is watching with interest the first move by a city in this Province to invoke drastic provincial legislation dimed at Oriental penetration. The Van- couver City Council has appointed A committee to study this legiela- tion with a view to its adoption. In brief, the law allows.a munici-

pality to appoint a licensing board with such drastic powers over the issuance of trades licenses that it would have the right to control the business operation of Orientals. It represents the most drastic nction against Orientals ever at- tempted by the provincial authori ties, and its effects, if it is adopted. will be observed with interest all

cuer western Canada, where the Oriental problem is acute.

Vancouver, BC-New records vero reached in the salmon pack in British Columbia this year, the total pack being 2.035,67 cases Major J. M. Motherwell, Dominion inspector for fisheries in British Columbia in his annual report states that fisheries in the province ere improved as a result of the de partment's conservation program regarding spawning conditions, The pack would have been greater had it not been for the restriction in certain атель where all the season's fishing was confined to one day and a half. “

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Mr. L Hansard Gabb, a Briton employed by the Asiatic Petroleam Company, has arrived in Hankow after escaping the bandits. He told a vivid story of escape from death. Mr. Gabb was shot at close range, beaten, and stabbed six times in the thigh with a spear.

The Attack.

The bandits attacked Changth on the evening of April be said,

Goole. At Goole, on charges of James uttering counterfeit coin, Francis Kennedy, a shoemaker of Balby, near Doncaster, was sent to

sol for six months, and James overpowering the guard at the city Moorin, riveter, of Doncaster, was streets. firing at random. Mr. Gabb gates and charging through the fined £10.

was dining at the Commercial Club, outside the East Gate, and the Club ed and looted. was among the first buildinge storm

Cobham-Thieves entered the residence of Mr. Joe. Lee, turf com- mission agent, at Stoke D'Abernen, Cobham, Surrey, and stole articles valued at over £2,000, including four gold medals won at philatelic exhibitions.

PlymouthFiremen were forced

several Chinese, three of whom Mr. Gabb hid in a cellar with were found by the bandits and shot. When he went to telephone, he was, fired at but the bullet missed, shat to wear smoke helmets in fighting tering & wall clock. He retreated premises of Messrs, Clarke, Noble of coal, where a second bandit a fire which destroyed the extensive to the cellar. hiding behind a pile and Co., Ltd., box-makers, party found' ham. printers, and manufacturing He was dragged into the open, stationers, at Plymouth The Chief stripped of his clothing and a gold Constable (r. Sanders) head of ring, and, with hands tied behind the brigade, and a number of fire his back, marched through the city ACTI were partially overcome by with a spear at his chest, and a fumes.

pistol at his head. The bandits Liverpool Special prayers for demanded ransom and, when they rain, were offered in many churches were informed he had no money recently in Liverpool and the stabbed him with a spear in the agricultural districts of the Wirral thigh. Peninsula e

The prisoner later was confined Southend-Thomas Digby, aged in a cellar from which he escaped sixty-eight, a retired Canadian when his guards deserted their Government emigration inspector, posts to participate in the looting was found dead in a gas-filed room of the city. in a house in Quebec-avenue, Southend..

Leeds. Mr. Charles Stüart Brown, of Birkenhead, has acquir ed Croft House, Morley, near Leeds, where the late Lord Oxford and Asquith was born, and intends

to convert it into a home for Leeds old-age pensioners.

With the help of a friendly Chi- nese, Mr. Gabb made his way to the Presbyterian Mission and later, reaching an A.P.C. Launch which with other refugees, succeeded in carried them down the Yangture River to safery, at Changsha,

TRAFFIC CASES."

MISLEADING WHITE LINE..

SHOOTING IN KOWLOON.

SANITARY BOARD COOLIE

THE VICTIM

A Sanitary Department coolie was shot at To Kwa Wan yesterday by two highway men. The incident occurred near the No. 3 Railway Bridge, At the time the coglie was proceeding towards the Sanitary Department quarters followed at some distance behind by a number of other coolies. Near the bridge. the two robbers appeared, one of them producing a revolver. The whereupon one of the robbers shot coolic immediately shouted for help him in the thigh. Nothing was stolen, although the victim had 852 in his possersion. The injured man was removed to the Kowloon Hos- Police last night stated that one pits and a late report from the mas had been arrested.

FRENCH AVIATOR

EXPECTED.

INVESTIGATING INDO-CHINA *AIR LINES.

A French seaplane was expected to arrive at Kai Tack Aerodrome yesterday afternoon from Saigon and Kwong Chow Wan. A party of local Frenchmen, including the French Consul, and Squadron Leader Freeman, R.A.F., and Asia- tie Petroleum Company's repre sentatives, waited until 5 pm,” at the Aerodrome.

As the aviator did not arrive to time, they left.

No cablegram has been received of the aviator's movements.

The object of the flight, we under- connection with proposed air ser stand, is to gather information in

vices between Indo-China. South China ports.

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THE Caliph of the Arabian Nights would have considered an Orthophonic Victrola as worth a king's ransom. For any instrument which could re- produce music so accurately, so true to life, would have been credited with magical powers. Its inventor would have been. made the Grand Poob-Bah.

Today, you can buy an Or thuphonic Victrols for less than the price of a good rug. It will bring your whole family/ musical entertainment year in and year put. We have a com plete stock of models at our store. At all prices. Liberal terms can be arranged. Come in and let us demonstrate soon!

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London. A splash of hot bacon at which Bew into the nostrils of Mrs. Elsie Walford, aged thirty, of Gränge-street,

Chalk Farm, while she was trying the bacon for breakfast, was stated at an inquest at St. Paperas to have caused her J. Shea at Kowloon Magistracy THREE NIGHTS AT THEATRE death. Mrs. Walford died in the yesterday were summoned for caus- Hampstead General Hospital from ing obstruction by leaving their general septicemia

cars outside, the Star Theatre.

Messrs. E. J. de Figueiredo.and

Schenectady, NY-An incan- Mr. Shea told his Worship there descent light, with a bulb the size was a white line drawn on the road of a large watermelon and a water giving the impression that it had New York The American Asso-cooled radiator, is under develop-been painted there to indicate a tiation of Foreign Chamber of ment in the General Electric com-parking stand. Commerce Secretaries has just been pany laboratories here. The big The traffic officer said that it had organized here to promote the ex- bulb uses about three times the nothing to do with the Traffic De change of information on matters power of the largest commercial inpartment." It might have been of mutual interest. The group is candescent lamp and yields 80,000 drawn by the P.W.D. expected to include representation candle power. The object of ex-

Mr. Shes remarked that the line for all of the 17 foreign chambera periments is to build bigger lamps was rather misleading Both d of commerce in New York City, by discovering how to prevent the fendants were fined $3.00. Nine nations were represented at hot gases inside the bulbs from Trouble at Hotel Corner. the organization meeting, which warping or melting the lighting was held in the offices of the Mer-elements.

Mr. J. J. Basto was also summon chants Association. They were

ed for disobeying the traffic signals Hankow-The Aeronautic Asso at the junction of Salisbury and Great Britain Germany, Italy, ciation at Hankow has assigned Nathan Roads (Peninsula Hotel Belgiumi, the Netherlands, Sweden, Wuchang, Changsha, Hengchow corner). The summons was dismiss Poland, Brazil and Russia.

and Shaochow as the four intered following the Indian constables' Chicago. The site of the first mediate stations along the Hankow-failure to identify the driver. white man's house in what is now Canton air mail line, which is over fr. Basto said that at the tine Chicago is scheduled to have a new 1,600 li long and is to be covered in question he was at his office and adornment. For threescore years, by a six hour fight."

the car might have been taken out and 10 it has entertained a soap

Nanking-Messrs. Tsai Yuan. By someone else. factory. Some day it will have a skyscraper. The house stood on the

Pei, Wang Chung Hul, Koo Ying sorth bank of the Chicago River,

Fen, Chang Ching Kiang and Lin where Michigan Avenue crosses it.

Sen were appointed members of the Standing Committee of the Central- Skyscrapers cluster about.. The soap factory clung to its home Supervisory Committee at the first during a period which saw Chicago meeting of the C.S.C. grow up from a small city, passed through the Chicago fire of 1871 and watched the transformation of its locality. Finally it decided its ite was too luxurious, put up a new plant and moved away.

Augusta, Me.—An act for the ex- termination of mosquitoes from the State of Maine has been passed by

poses.

I CAN'T FIGHT!"

WOODEN LEGGED

NUISANCE" IN

'COURT.

A six-foot Chinese with a wooden

CHINESE HUSBAND AND

WIFE QUARREL.”

A Chinese woman summoned her husband before Mr. Whyte Smith at Kowloon Magistracy yesterday with alleged persistent cruelty and failure to maintain her, The Roman said she had been married. to defendant since the was 16 and, had four children. After her fourth child she became ill and her husband took in a concubine.

Thereafter she was ill-treated and

ROYAL.

The Bravard English Comedy Company are arriving back in the Colony to-day from Shanghai per the 8.8. President Hayes. The Company has had an enormous success in the northern port, the theatre in which they were playing being packed out each night. Hong Kong gave them a warm welcome during their short season' at the Star Theatre before going North and many theatre-goers have been counting the days till their return.

The Company is giving "Rookery Nook" to-night at the Star, a delightful farce by Ben Travers, with which they scored is great success four weeks ago. Os Sun- day is "The Fanatics," for which All tickets were sold two days be fore the night during the earlier: visit, on Monday "Thark," and on Tuesday a play not previously given here Diversion

After this short Keason at the Star the Company will move across "the harbour to the Theatre Royal for three nights-May 22, 23 and 24.

Tickets may be obtained at Moutrie's and the Star, Theatre Kowloon, at the popular prices of $3, 89 and $1.

is

CHINESE MURDERED.

A QUEENSLAND TRAGEDY.

Charles Hong, a Chinese baker and storekeeper at Barcaldine, was found almost done to death in the shop in which he lived alone. His head had been frightfully battored He died a few hours after admission to hospital. Hong was a very quiet thought to have been the motive for and unassuming man. Robbery is the murder.

A Mrs. Colman went to the back door of the shop, and, opening it, saw Hong lying on the floor in a pool of blood. She screamed, and a man immediately rushed out of the shop, nearly knocking her down in his haste. Mrs. Colman - then

safe open. In it was £100.

the Legislature and signed by, the leg and another man with a black Governor, but carries no appro- eye appeared yesterday, before Mr. priation for accomplishing ite

The act recites that our N. L. Smith at Central Magistracy often beaten. He only allowed her with some blunt instrument.

the on a charge of fighting. The man a few cents to live on and mostly insect known as the mosquito is with the wooden leg turned up the she had to work to keep body and hereby declared in all its stages right deg of his trousers to show soul togethe Hall, on behalf of the

public nuisance," and the state that he had an artificial leg and Mr. health commissioner is authorized could not therefore inflict a black husband, said that the husband so to use all lawful methods for its eye on anyone!

eused his wife of having deserted. THE GENERAL ACCIDENT FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE CORP., LTD control, suppression and abate- The prosecution, however, told him," and she had lived with some

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