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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1929.

BY MAIL, WIRE, AND

WIRELESS.

ORIENTALS IN FRANCE.

Leeds. Sir Robert Gower has EQUAL RIGHTS CONCEDED. been elected Master of the Needle- makers' Company.

Lisbon. Dr. Luiz Maria Lopes da Fonseca has been appointed Minis- ter of Justice in the new Portugues Cabinet.

London-Lieut.-Col. H. E. Verey has been elected chairman of the board of management of St. Mary's Hospital, W.

London. The Westminter Book

Horticultural Society held its third annual show at the Threadneedle Street Office of the bank,

Doncaster. Of the sum of £300,34 advanced by the Doncaster Guard ians" on loan to the miners during the 1928 stoppage, only £17,065 has been repaid.

Belgrade. In spite of a second demarche of the German Legation in Belgrade, the expelled corres pondent of the Berliner Tageblatt has to leave Yugoslavia.

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Bude. After a 14 weeks' strike Cornish granite workers have re- turned to work, an advance of half-penny an hour having been granted to the mechanics.

Bury St. Edmunds.-Mr. S. E. Smith will retire at the end of this term after 34 years as headmaster of the Guildhall Feoffment Boys' School, Bury St. Edmunds.

Moscow.-Lenin's mausateum is to be reconstructed. and therefore Lenin's body will be removed to the Kremlia, where it will remain until the work is finished.

London-At the Overseas Mechanical Transport Conference, India is represented by Colonel T.

Adviser to the India Office.

Hutchinson, Mechanical Transport

Belgrade.M. Polychroniadis, the Greek Minister in Belgrade, was married to a Serbian lady, Mlle. Nikolaevitch. The wedding took place at the Greek Legation.

Grassc. Prince Mustapha Kiamil Fazil, first cousin once removed to the King of Egypt, has died 'nt Grasse at the age of 43, leaving one daughter, the Nabila Saliba,

Derby. The old Derby Prison was withdrawn at auction at £11,000 and Wha afterwards purchased privately by Sir Albert Ball, of Nottingham. It was erected in 180 at a cost of £65,000, and the grounds cover six aeres.'

Portsmouth.-Thirty midshipman of the Chilean battleship Almirante Latorre, now refitting at Devonport, accompanied by several officers, visited the Victory at Portsmouth Dockyard and laid a wreath on the spot, where Nelson fell.

Brighton-At a luncheon at the Royal York Hotel, Brighton, Mr. Harry Preston presented to the chairman of the Brighton Hospital a cheque for £2.000, the proceeds of the annual boxing tournament held at The Dome, Brighton, last September.

Genon. The Coaulitch Line, which maintains a servies between Genoa and New York has, as a re sult of the recent concordat between Italy and the Vatican, provided chapels on board its motor-ships, the Saturia and Vulvania and ap pointed chaplains.

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Tramore. A verdict of Death from heart failure" wae returned An inquest at Tramore, Co. Waterford, on the body of the Rev. Rubert Gordon Stowell Greer, rector of Whitechurch, Co. Wexford, who collapsed and died white bath. ing at Tramore. Bay.

St. Andrews-St. Andrews Life boat Association has been presented with a centenary vellum signed by the Prince of Wales. The presenta tion was made by Mr. George Shee, London Organizing Secretary of the R.N.L.1, who presented a similar vellum to the Arbroath station.

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QUARTERS.

PERSISTENT WOULD-BE SUICIDE.

JUMPS IN RIVER THRICE AND SLASHES THROAT.

Shanghai-An incurable illness Yangtszepoo and threw himself into caused Wei Shen Lin, an employs the Whangpoo. His action was of the N.K.K, steamship company, seen by a sampan man, who rescued to make three attempts at suicide. him? That evening Wei made a Wei almost succeeded the third time second attempt to commit suicide when he slashed his throat with n by drowning. He

saved butcher knife, at his home in again, that dine by a river pelices Chapel. He is now in the Chishen man, who sent him to Chapei police Hospital, Haining Road and is not beadquarters. expected to live.

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Orientals are scattered in Paris. There is on, Chinatown. Such a thing as a Japanese quarter does

Mrs. We had been trying to not exist. No line is drawn against the people from the Far East--they aru. He had suffered for a long it was his habit to come home as Wei was a boy on the Lushan | locate her husband all day, because are "welcome everywhere. Under Louis XIV Chinese mandarins freme, spending much money in try soon as the Lushan Maru docked. quently were guests in the Louvre ing to be cured, but his efforts were She finally located him in a charit- Palace and were made much of at unavailing. Because of his illness able institution, where he had been Versailles, but Japanese in numbers it was almost impossible for him to taken by order of the Chapei police. have appeared in Paris only since continue to work and the possibility He was permitted to return home the establishment of the Third Re of being unable to support his with his wife.

family was the last straw, so Wei publis.

The French are civilized to the attempted to solve his problem by

taking his life. point where they know that to have i the good will of a foreign people

Tried to Drown. as much must be extended in kindli.

When the boat arrived in Shang- expected in return. Na tives of the Orient have the same hai he didn't go home, but went to rights in Pakis ng Americans,

ness as

The Eighteenth Century. "I think I can explain why we' Orientals receive the identical treatment as other foreigners to day." mid Gia-Ling, who is a pro- minent Apnamese merchant living in the aristocratic Pare Monceau district of Paris

STOLEN PROPERTY..

SNEAK THIEVES BUSY.

A number of petty thefts were the Central Police reported at Station yesterday.

Miss Margaret Murray, a passen ger of the as. Tanda made a report

while shopping in a silk store in in the afternoon to the effect that

Wei "was closely watched by his wife and didn't get another chance to do away with himself until he made the attempt with a knife, which will probably be the last pac he'll need to make, as his condition is critical.

O.S.K. ENTERPRISE.

DIRECT JAPAN-CANTON

SERVICE.

The O.S.K. has decided to launch a more extensive service to south- jera porta, now that the shipping trade with those regions has be. come more active, and among other things, a direct Canton service will

be established.

"It began in the eighteenth cen tury, when Louis XVI concluded a trenty with the king of my coun. try whereby Tourane and the island of Pulo-Condor were ceded to of France. That was the beginning France in return for the protection

of French influence in Indo-China

The Osaka Mainichi says the and the respect that the entire Pedder Street, she left her hand-ship to be used on the Canton route Orient has for France.

bag on a counter. When she re- are the Nitto Maru, 3,500 tons, and France is now dominant inturned to claim the bag, it was no make two trips a

the Koshi Maru, 3,800 tons, to Indo-China with a governor geter longer there. The bag itself, ac-Nitto Mara will leave for Canton month. The

as the firss of the service in the middle of September. The ports

call are as follows:- Outbound: Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobc, Moji, Amoy, Swatow and Canton.

al, a secretary general and &

superior council there, but we ofcording to Miss Murray, was worth Annam still have our king and so 920, and the contents included a has Cambodia. Nothing has been cheque for $20 on Thos Cook's done to interfere with our reli. Bank. There was also 837 in Hong gion, which is a very liberal Bud-Kong money and

two fountain, dhiam."

of

Indo-China. Gia-Ling explained that of the 20,000,000 population Indo- Chinn, 80 per cent, were Annamese, and that perhaps 25.000 Europeans were there. He said that the peo nla of Annam were the original in- habitants of southern China, and that their language was only a dinlect of Chinese. Incidentally, labour battalions from Annam kept The roads repaired from Bar-le-Duc to Verdun in the critical days of the World War.

pens.

Mr. L. W. Walkingshaw of the Nestle Milk Company made a re port to the effect that a clock valued at 85 was stolen from his motor- car, No. 2301 which was left un- attended in Jackson Road.

Capt. Dobbie, Adjutant of the K.O.S.3. reported the loss of a gold medal from Austin, Barracks on Tuesday last. The value of the medal is not stated.

The sub-manager of the Yoko hama Specie Bank, Mr. Minen Tamura, livifig at No. 8, Bowen In regard to the Japanese, Gin fond reports, the theft from his Ling pointed out that they do not house during yesterday afternoon, differ physically from the Chinese ai meney, clothing, and jewellery, and Annamese nearly as much as

the inhabitants of northern Europe to the value of 187.

differ from those of southern Europe. He concluded: "We are all from the same stock-Japanese, Chinese and Annameae,”

Undoubtedly the administrative loose rein of the French rule" in Indo-China has much to do with the popularity of Paris with both Japanese and Chinese. The rice crops of Indo-China are bought by Japan and Indo-China is the only colony of France which is self.

sustaining.

Differentiation Dificult,

The difficulty in Paris is to differ- entiate between Chinese and An- namexe. They look so much alike. Both are short in stature with pro- truding check-bancs and lozenge; shaped faces. The eyes of the Au- namese are less oblique than those of the Chinese, which is the chief distinguishing mark.

FIRE ON CARGO STEAMER.

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MARINE

Washington.-The Inter-depart- American Steamship Export Cor- mental Board has approved an poration loan of 80,000,000 for con- struction of merchant marine ves- sels.

Robert Patterson Lamont, Secre tary of Commerce, informed the Shipping Board that the advance is legal under the Jones White Act. as it will facilitate private con-.

Cargo for Caaton, up to now, used to cost in freight Ya for dry goods, cotton goods and enamelled ware; Y. for beer, glassware,struction of four vessels. chinaware and marine products: Y.4 for matches tietween Japan and Hong Kong, in addition to about Y.4 for transhipment Bong Kong and Canton, or alto- gether about Y. 10,

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The freight on this direc: Canton service is expected to be about Y.8.

warehouse at Canton at a cost of The OS.K. is now building a Y.700,000 which will be completed in February next.

THE COASTAL SERVICE.

CHANGES AND APPOINT- MENT.

SINGAPORE, Aug. 21.

Mr. J. M. McWilliams, arcond For the greater part of 28 hours officer, Nanning, has gone second the master and crew of the oficer, Huneb. Mr. F. E. Noyon, Bougainville. which arrived here on

second officer, Hupeh, has gone her way to Saigon and Haiphong, second officer, Kwangchow, were in danger of being blown up, as the result of a fire which broke

out in No. 2 hatch during their passage through the Red Sea.

The fire started among railway material that occupied one part of the hatch, and the danger lay in the fact that at the other end of the hatch were stored 200 tons of No such trouble attends the plac-chloride of potash, One spark ing of the Japanese, whose energe from the flames, and there would activity, general shortness of legs have destroyed the ship and her tio character expressed in a lively have been an explosion which might and European clothes that fit, distinguish them instartly from the other Orientals in Paris.

the art expositions, in the theatres, They are found everywhere-nt along the boulevards and at the races, where they exchange pods with American college classmates.

Warsaw. Persistent rain has caused serious floods in Enstern The Japanese have arrived ΣΠ Onlicia.

Railway communication Paris, socially, artistically indus has been interrupted in several trially and financially. No diplo- places, a number of bridges have matic function at the Quai d'Orsay been entirely destroyed, and about

is complete without their inclusion. 20 villages are under water. In Anhassador Adachi, who lives in some districts all communications, the Avenue Hoche with his chan- including telegraph and the telewellery in the Tuc Greuze, is ac- phone services, have been interrupt cepted as one of the ablest diplo-

ed.

Moscow. The Soviet Government has ratified convention with Fin-

mats in Europe.

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The Bougainville is a cargo bost, and was carrying a full load East. board and do his best to extinguish The master decided to remain on the dames. The alarm was given at 1.50 a.m. "on July 27, and all available hose was immediately put into use. Every man that could he spared was requisitioned, and ex- tinguishers and grenades were used.

Stuck to His Ship.. Soop after the fire broke out the

Cap Saint Jacques was sighted. Her captain went aboard and, when he saw the position, advised the master of the Bougainville to leave the vessel to its almost cer- tain fate, for, despite all efforts, it was obviously a hopeless task to

land for the provention of illicit GROOM AGED 75, BRIDE 23. the fire had got a strong hold, and

trade in spirità. According to the Soviet Press smugglers have a per- manent base in the neutral zone of the Gulf of Finland, where vessels flying the Czechoslovak, Hungariun, Panaman, and other flags are carry. ing on a brisk trade.

Rabat. The Bank of British West Africa has just closed its branches nt Mogador and Rabat, in Morocco,

SURPRISE WEDDING OF A LANDOWNER.

Northampton.The wedding has taken place in London of Mr. F. H: Thornton, J.F., of Kingsthorpe Hall, and Miss Betty Buxton Cogan, second daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Danby Cogan, of Northamp-

ton.

in consequence of the diminished The bridegroom is seventy-five commercial importance of Mugador, years of age, and the bride twenty-

and the fact that in spite of the prosperity of Rabat, results have not been sufficient to justify a continu ance of the branch there.

Pesawar-After the conclusion of the joint jirga (conference) of Afridis, Sunni Orakzain and Shiah Orakzíne at Postwar, the Afridis interviewed their Political Agent in their own country with the Orakzias in a further attempt to find a formula scceptance to both tribes for the settlement of the dis pute over the village and the lands of Kalaya in the Tirah, where Shiah property has been occupied by Bunnis.

three.

put it out.

stored.

Mr. W. Dickenson, from reserve, has gone' chief officer. Fatahan.

Mr. E. G. Benson, chief officer, Chengtu, has gone chief officer, Kueichow. Mr. E. t. Graham, chief officer, Kucichow, has gone chief officer; Chengtu.

Mr. J. M. Brackenridge, second engineer officer, Sinking, is on Home leave. r, J. H. Fayers, gineer officer, Sinkiang from reserve. has gone second e-

Mr. J. E. Duggan, from reserve, has gone second engineer officer, Payang. Mr. J. W. E. Tonkin, has gone second engineer officer, second engineer officer, Poyang,' Nanning. Mr. E. E. Murray, se cond engineer officer, Nanning, is on reserve.

Mr. A. Brown has been appointed third engineer officer, Taming. Mr. D. II. Davidson third engineer third engineer officer. Taming, is

on reserve.

Captain C. R. Harris, of the Kingwo, is on

reserve. Captain R. Hughes, from reserve, has gone master, Kingwo.

Mr. R. J. T. Hopkins, from re nerve, has gone chief officer, Chak- sang. Mr. G. K. Hudson, chief officer, Chaksang, is on reserve,

Mr. P. J. Brown, third engineer officer. Luenbo, has gone third ca gincer officer, Yusang.

Captain W. J. Collom. from ré- serve, has gone master, Tungshan. Captain R. J. Gillespie, from re- serve, has gone master, On Lee.

But the master of the Bougain ville, was not to be turned from his decisions, and, with assistance received from the other vessel, con- centrated every effort on preventing the flames spreading. One of the measures he adopted was, to alter the course of his ship, so that the

Mr. J. Mathieson, chief engineer flames would be blown away from that part of the hatch in which officer, Erie Moller, has gone chief the dreaded chlorate of potash was in office Isabel Moller.

Shipping and Engineering." Mr. Thornton and Miss Cogan Port Sudan, where the fire-figh- met at a dance in Northampton ters could get more assistance, was early this year. The bridegroom, made for, with the flames still rag: M.P.'S APPEAL TO THIEVES. who has been three times mayor of ing unabated. Just before that Daventry, is one of the largest port was sighted, 20 hours after landowners in Northamptonshire, the first alarm was given. the flames Sir Martin Conway, M.P., is ap and one of the best-known breeders were overcome, and then only be pealing to the thieves who stole of dairy cattle in the country. He

cause they had nothing more on his motor car and abandoned it in was for many years chairman of which to feed, every partion of the Maida Vale, to return the dors- the Conservative Association here. railway material having been burntments contained in a trunk which

Miss Cogan has for a time been

out.

was taken from the vehicle. acting as an assistant profession

These documents are the fruits of al pianoforte teacher. Sir Gerard

seven years' research by his daugh Thornton, son of the bridegroom,

ter at the Record Office, and are was fest, man. The honeymoon is

material for a Life of Henry VII, heing spent on the Continent.

which she is writing.

How the fire originated is at pre- sent a mystery. The railway in terial, goods waggons, was being carried to Haiphong for the French Government.

TO-DAY'S WIRELESS

PROGRAMME.

BROADCAST BY Z.B.W. ON 360 METRES.

148 p.m.-Weather report. 3.30 to 6.30 p.m.-Programme of Chinese music. (Columbia records. supplied hy the Wo Shing Co., 'Ltd.).

7.8 p.m.-Evening weather re- port."

8 p.m. Evening. programme. (Columbia records. supplied by Messrs. Anderson Music Co., Ltd.). The Five O'Clock. Girl," Selec

tion, Ray Starita and His Am- bassadors Band. Dance music.

8.43 p.m.

"Napoleon'" and "She's Mine,"

Comedian, Billy Bennett. Dance music.

10.15 p.m.- "The Mikado" (Gilbert and Sul livan), Vocal Gems. Columbia Light Opera Company. 10.30 p.m.-Close down.

SUNDAY.

"ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL" TO BE RELAYED.

The following programine will ho broadcast on Sunday from the Z.B.W. on 350 metres:- Government Broadcasting Station

1.18 p.m.-Wenther report. 3.53 p.m.-Evening Service relay." ed from St. John's Cathedral,

7.48 p.m.-Evening weather re- peri,

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p.m.Evening programme, plied by Messrs. 5. Moutrie & Co., (Vietor and H.M.V. records sap- Ltd.).

"Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory Of The Coming Of The Lord? and For All The Saints," Choir of The Temple Church.. Bells Across The Meadow" and "Serenade" (Drigo), Organ Solo, Reginald Foort. "On The Banks Of The Danube," Piano Solo, John Kuruez.') - Introduction And Fague" (Liszt), Organ Solo, Fernando Ger. mani. Messiah Hallelujah.

Chorus."

(Handel) and "Gloris from Twelfth Mare" (Mosart), Trinity Choir.

"Sporting! Feasting" and "Ho!

HI Look To The Rudder," Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Prayer Of Thanksgiving" and "Swing Low Sweet Chariot, Associated Glea

Clubs of

America.

By The Blue Hawaiian Waters," (a) "Leave Me Alone" and (b) Songs My Mother Taught Me," Organ Solo, Reginald Fourt.

"Ye That Now Are Sorrowful" (Brahms), Boprano, Florence Austral

"Andantino in D Flat" (Lemare) and "Traunersi" (Deverie). Organ Solo, Edwin H. Lemarc. Larao (Handel), Pipe Organ

Solo, Mark Andrews. 10.30 p.m.-Close down,