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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1930.

OBITUARY.

MR. WILLIAM PETT RIDGE.

(THROUGH NEETER'D`AGENCY.]

LONDON, Sept. 20.

SEQUEL TO RUSSO- JAPANESE WAR.

SEARCH FOR HIDDEN TREASURES,

CHINESE RAILWAY:

in

REVENUES.

·SLIGHT · INCREASE DESPITE CIVIL WAR;

According to statistics compiled by the Ministry of Railways, Nan

The death is announced of the GOLD BURIED IN A TEMPLE king, the total receipts of the fol welltown novelist Mr. Willia Peit Ridge.

lowing nine Goverment railways The alleged attempts of certain for the first six months of this year, (Deceased, who-began to write in Japanca to dig up part of a was 843,510,154. Despite the fast Buddhist temple outside the city that railway transportation lind, 1800, never failed to produce sug noval a year, commencing with "Aof Mukden were the subject of au Clever Wife in 1995, and closing hia literary career with "The Two Minolenzies" in 1028.]

MAJOR-GENERAL WILLIAM

BURNHAM.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]-

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 29. The death is announced of Major- General William Burnham, who commanded A division of the American Army-in-the Great War.

- PRINCE LEOPOLD OF

BAVARIA,

{TALLOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

BERLIN, Sept. 28: The death is unnounced of Field-Marshal Prince" Leopold ór Bavaria, at the age of 84..

He was the chief commander of the German army in the East early in the war, and played an import- ent part in the German victories in Russia and Poland.

The following table shows the income of each of the nine rail- ways

article in the Shunpao which, it been interrupted by warlare, an in said, makes a very interesting no-creans of 802,743 was recorded as quel to the Russo-Japanese War,

compared with the revenue of the According to this journal, four first six months of 1990, Japanese policemen and a Japan Ese woman, accompanied by about a dozen Chiness workman, went into a Buddhist temple outside the city of Mukden early on the mo ing of September 15. After their arrival, the Japanese took out a map and instructed the Chinese workmon to dig the ground about two yards from the front of the main hall."

However, it is said, the Japan. rse policefner spoke in low tones ia Chinese and they were overheard by a young priest who shipped out through, the back door and report- ed the matter to a branch station of the Public Safety Bureau. A telephone message was sent to Police Headquarters and a com. pany of armed men immediately sent to the temple to learn what was the matter.

The Japanese policemen yielded to the Chinese police and agreed to withdraw from the temple. · Before they were allowed to leave. the temple, however, they were made to tell the truth ns.to their inten Hations and the statements they are of reported to have made were to the

-following effect im

of

Tho famous Gorman Royal soldier, Prince Leopold Bavaria, was horn in 1810. Was п som of the Regent Bavaria.

He became commander of tho

Thirty-three years ago, when the Bavarian First Army Corps, and Russo-Japanese War was fought in in 1905 was appointed a. Field Manchuria, a Russian general and Marshal. The Great War-gave him his men were defood and com hig opportunity in big campaign pelled to retreat to Mukden Here: ing, and as commander of a Ger-

in this very temple, the general man, army on the Eastern front în buried his personal fortune: "con- 1918 he captured Wansw, After-sisting 40 chests of gold with the warda bo replaced Hindenburg in intention of recovering them when the Eastern command. He married war was over. Ho propared a map a daughter of the Tate Emperor showing where the gold was buried. Franz Joseph of Austria, and had However, the fussian general four children. His eldest, Prince was later taken prisoner by the George of Bavaria, served in the Japanese, and the commander of war, and later became" a priest. the Japanese forces trented kindly bis prisoner and gave him his MR. DANIEL GUGGENHEIM: daughter in marriage. The latter obtained the map from her husband (REDTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE) And she then come to Mukden, sooking the assistance of the Japanese police in the recovery of the fortune

New York, Sept. 27. The death has occurred of Mr. Daniel Guggenheim, of the firny. of Guggenheim Brothers.

The woman who accompanied then was the wifg of the Russian, prisoner and their intention was to The late Mr. Daniel. Guggenheim recover the gold in the early morn was a noted member of a noted family, whose name is a household tion to their actions. Unfortun ing when nobody would pay atten word in realms of finance. Bornately, their scheme wore frustrated

in Philadelphia in 1650, he was of by the arrival of the Chinese police. Swiss extraction, and at the age.

man.

Ghostly Figure.

of 17 he returned - to-hig, father's native land, and thero aged the European interests of the firm of Guggenheim started by After having robbed the villa of Iris parent, with conspicuous auc-

a Parisian doctor at Vaneresson, cca Going back to America

picturesque suburb. of Paris, o some years later he joined the ex-was driving brimself home, when he tended enterprises of the firm, saw another villa which, as he said, which ranged from lace and em- was just asking to be, rifled." broidery to copper mining, and the Now York business was opened in 1800, soon to become a big factor in Wall Street. From mining in

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Revenue. Railways. Passenger. Freight. Peiping.

Mukden 87,730,418 89,868,816. Tientsin,

Pukow 2,100,030 2,080,978 S'hai-Nanking 4,701,008 1,242,039,

ghai

Taakow

Canton-

Kinochow

Hangchow 2,258,775,000,202

'Chinghua'

Kowloon

Tsinan 2,050,180

Nanchang

Kiukiang Canton Shiu- -kwan Section Canton-Han- kow.......

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7 APPOINTMENT TO HIS MAJESTY THE KING

310,091 $26,TED

699,010 03;110

4,457,087

339,320 240,244

1,110,380 1,020,408.

821,167,723 821,030,130 Miscellaneous income.... 31,322,301

843,510,1547

Total revenue.

for the current half year will exceed, It is anticipated that the revenue these figures it hostilities aro con- stock is available to handle the cluded at an early date and rolling- huge quantities of freight awaiting. transportation.

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