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KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1930.

Then the writer in Chian Truth waxrs sarcastic again, suggesting that our correspondent's principle, if good in one part of Chinn, might other p.m.,he very properly applied

parts of the country. Since the The anti-gyelone remains central New Territories are necessary for to the north-east of Peiping. The the adequate defence of Hong Kong depression is passing into the Paci--though we think otherwise Great

fie to the east of Hokkaido.

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*News and Views *

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It is an unusual as of 1 A verdict of "Donth from Mis- motor-eyelist going too slowly," said adventure," was returned by Mr. the foreman of the jury at a Ley H. B. Sewell, the Coroner, at an, tonstone inquest on Mr. Muria

was returned.

Holmes, aged seventy-seven, of Ram inquest at Beckenham on an electri say-road, Forst Gate, who stepped cien, who was employed by the Irom the kerb and was knocked i

Beckenham Urban District Council. down by a motor cyclist. A witness The humble grave-digger of the estimated the motor cyclists' speed Mr. J. Tapper, the Council's ex- During the renovation of King Jubu's Comb in Worcester Cathedral Roman Catholic cemetery at Law at eight miles an hour-and-express-gineer, said that deceased was nut--... it has been discovered that neither pertheir, à village in the Palatined the opinion that, had he been ting in new fures in a cable box the effigy of the monarch nur the

going more quickly, the secilent to itself were painted when ate, has become a father for the would never have happened. A at Elmers End, and had neglected "Accidental death" to wear the rubber gloves. He was placed in the building in the thir twenty-ninth time. He has been verdict of teenth century. They were The twise married. His first wife con

ting in new fases in a cable box Britain should buy it. The propolished Purbeck murile.

The South German Cable works of a new type which had been in- anuunce that they have been stalled by the Council, because they South America thought it was safer. Mr. Tapper awarded by government contract for cables worth over one million marks. Aliexpressed the opinion that he slip- thougher 24 firms competed for the ped on the damp ground and clutch- contract which will provide work ad the live bar in trying to rave for a large paimber of employees of himself from falling. Medical evi- dence was given that death was duo to asphyxiation following an elec tric shock.

Ideal Forecast ;-E. winds, mode. vines of Kwanglung is

market for British goods, and the rate; fair.

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figure of the King, and those oftributed sixteen "arrows" to his. good the two bishops between whom ho quiver, and among the second wife's lies, have already been restored to contribution are three sets of twins. the original polished condition.

An extraordinary incident re- Canton River is n useful water The remainder of the tomb is to

he similarly treated. The tomb was cently occurred at Gatwick Rabes, route for the transportation of first painted in the fourteenth cen- where Kettle, the winner of the foreign goods from foreign landstury, and has been reprinted on Bridge Selling Handicap, was dis-

Reveral occasions. But for this qualified on the ground that she the Mannheim Arm the interior; then Great Britain timely discovery it would have been carried overweight. No blame was the repainted again. In fact, the west attached to Fred Herbert,

For operating a game of chance should also buy them with the end of the tomb had already been fockey, who stated later that his called The Ghost Train, Allert Tay

Monseigneur Roth, duyen of the Boxer Indemnity or other funds treated. The new paint, how theory was that the filly perspinelor, showman, of Sheffield, was in-

ever, is to be scraped off.

20 freely that the saddle-clothed 40s. at Doncaster. Competi- Koning Apostolic Administration which was endden with sweat, was responsible for the extra poundage.tors received prizes when the train, and Pere Wolf, Vicar of Novoros- As the "all right" signal was not which was controlled by switches, siysk has been executed by the hoisted until after the disqualifica stopped at the station indicated on Bolsheviks, the Vatican City an- tion, hackers of Kettle lost their their ticket. The police alleged nowaced inst week, They were judg that, though the competitors bo.ed dangerous as they were tooo well- lieved that they controlled the move-liked by the population who greatly money.

ment of the train, the defendant aduired, their zeal and devotion. train stop at the point he desired. Clara Bow's future in films is im operated the switches and made the

perilled by the incident of the stop-

The Foreign Concessions in Shang- hai, Tientsin, and Hankow are

great markets for imported goods, And for the same reason Great Britain should also own them, Then, there are lots of things in Chin which Whitehall should also huy, if the advice of the-Portugiese [“DECLINED WITH THANKS."olicitor is seriously considered.

HONG KONG, OCTOBER 29, 1930.

Some days, ngo a letter appeared in our columns in which the writer made an interesting suggestion in regard to the New Territories. It

was pointed out that. the arrange nent recently reached between"), to-

presentatives of the British and

Chinese Governinots regarding the Boxer Indemnity has to be ratified.

A Hull toonsee, found his dog playing in the hotel yard with missile which on examination he found to be a hand-grenade. He quickly took possession of it and gave it to the police, who rendered it harmless. It is not known whore the dog picked up the bomb.

A case in which a native woman invoked the unwritten law in de But the question is, where are the fence of her action in killing a funds to come from?" The Cantan native, who, she alleged, had ur dored her daughter, is disclosed paper concludes its cominent by

from Pietersburg, where n woman hinting that any attempt to disturb admitted killing a native with an the present status of the New Ter-axe in revenge for the murder of her ritories may bring about an earlier daughter, whose four children are now motherless. The husband of reversion than is provided for in the dead woman told of finding the the lease!

body and reporting to his chief: The native accused of the murder of the woman was taken to within a few yards of the scone of the crime and chained up to a treo. At dusk the inother of the murdered girl arrived wrapped in a blanket, and Auddenly attacked and killed the prisoner with an axe.

STRANGE RED ACTIVITY.

by Parliament before it becomes a life about to make its appear effective. That being so, there is ance on the planet. Jupiter? Are the famous red spots observed by

Mr. William Z. Foster, who has run for the U.S. Presidency on Communist ticket and who was im- prisoned some months ago for par- ticipancy in non-authorized mass meetings which led to rioting with police, has been released froin the penitentiary.

Brackley (Northamptonshire) Town Hall Committen wanted to replace a smashed mirror in the women hall with a new one costing £4. 15. But, surprisingly, three members of the Council opposed the purchase on the ground that it was a waste of money. "Un

" said one. necessary, exclaimed the second.

When a breakdown gang from pad payments on cheques for £2,800: Derby were on their way to Westin settlement of gambling losses at Bridge Station, Leicester, where ana Nevaded hotel. Following the engine and tender had run off the alienation of affections suit brought rails, they found that they could against her earlier in the year, in not get their big thirty-six ton crane which she is said to have paid was warned by the through Glenfield Tunnel, which is sh

publicity the

'unfavourable the oldest in the country. The line leaders at the film industry that

Leicester-Swannington further branch, which was the first to be might lead to her dismissal. Holly- 16 built in the Midlands, and there wood has now grown so sensitive to is no other way of approach to West public opinion that stars are threat- ened with immediato loss of con- Bridge Station.

tracts should they be involved in A needle splinter embedded ja incidents likely to provoke hostile spend the money better in other her finger two years ago was the criticism. Miss Bow gave a pro- cause of the death of Mrs. A. Emise to her directors recently that Newman (16), of Northwood Road,aho would incur no more unfavour- Thornton Heath. At the inquest at able notice in the newspapers, and Croydon when the jury returned this gambling episode is causing her verdict of death from misadventure, considerable apprehension. it was stated that about six months ago the finger became painful. This

"Foolish,"

"We can

waye," declared the third. They were overruled by the men on the Council and the mirror is to be purchased.

Falling 120ft from the seventh storey of what will be the highest bricklayer, escaped death recently,

Watford Peace Memorial Hos

still time to amend the tentative astronomers upon Jupiter's gaseous the market in the near future as skyscraper in Britain, a Manchester month the finger was X-rayed, with 1pital has received 132 bottles of

arrangement arrived at, and our correspondent suggested this be done. With the object of con. Biting Britain's position in

surface in process of solidification or merely a manifestation of in- ternal volcanic activity, like the spots on the sun?

Motor-cars with bearings which will not wear out may be placed on, the result of the discovery of large deposits of lithium in South West Africa. Lithium is the lightest mutal known, and has a specific gravity of not much more than half In an article dealing with this that of water. It is understood to new

Hong Kong, our correspondent pro-question, which has puzzled scien-be the chief element in a

aluminium alloy which is much posed that negotiations be opened tists for generations, the Abbéighter than pare aluminium and MOREAUX, the famous French as early as strong as steel, and which for the cession to Great Britain of tronomer and weather expert, de will stand indefinite wear as a bear the territory beyond Kowloon which clares that recent observation has ing material. Already thousands is at present, leased by the Chinese proved beyond doubt that the of tons of ore have been mined, and the deposits in the mine now work pinnet is mainly composed of super-ing will not be exhausted for many Government on a term of ninety-heated gas. Nevertheless, he says, years.

The the two red spots-one of which was nine years from June, 1898.

Been first in 1605 and which has been idea was that this grant in per

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The idea seemed to us wholly impracticable, but as the suggestion was an interesting one we gave it

found since to measure roughly

3,000 miles in length and 6,800

toss-seem, by their consistent movements and high speed, to be solid, or partially solid. "We can almost say as a fact that Jupiter in a planet in the process of for- Įmation."

In one year—from 1913 to 1914-

T Grifins will take place the publicity, expecting in due courge the larger spot" travelled, 33,493

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miles in a longitudinal direction- to learn something of the Chines

or more than five times the diameter réaction to such a bold proposal. of our world. It appears that the Wo note that China Truth has an second "spot "-discovered in 1901 Article on

the subject and, of-travels even faster and overtakes course, does not approve the iden at all. This is quite natural in the circumstances China's policy to day is directed at the reduction,

and vanishes into the first one every

not the extension, of foreign in aut fluence and control within her TENTH EXTRA BACE MEET territory. The Canton journal is first abode of life upon, the Inrgest ING to be held on SATURDAY, 8ra rather cynical in its personal refer- of the planets, NOVEMBER, 1930 (Weather Permit.

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the result that the splinter, about champagne as a gift from Mr. J.. the Anger. millionaire. The hospital commit- and removed He was working on the masonry of half an inch long, was discovered Pierpont Morgan, the American a window when he fell. Luckily,

con-Gangrene, however, set in, and the tee, although they knew the gift is proved, his head struck a

would be useless to them, grateful- crete ledge which diverted his fall woman died of blood poisoning.

ly accepted. the wine, and are now away from projecting brickwork, causing him to fall into a water At the opening of the annual Con-cking to exchange it for hard gress of Public Health in Mar cash. A wine merchant has already container only 5ft wide. Had he not fallen in an upright position, illes, the French Minister has en- been asked if he would agree to or had his fall boen deflected a few umerated

urgent measures make an offer, but no response has inches further away from the build which have been undertaken for the been received. .__. ing, he would have struck steel pal protection of mothers and children ings and been cut in two. He was in order to increnan the birth rate. conscious sten rescued, and was for the development of medical taken to hospital with head in school inspection and legal publica tion of lists of contagious diseases. juries.

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Local Notes and Events *

At the Marine Court yesterday, two junk masters, who were found guilty of leaving harbour without clearances, wore each fined $23.

Reports have been made by Mr. D. A. Rushton and Mr. E. W. Blacknors to the effect that their motor-cars were stolen on Saturday night. These have, however, since

Looking Back 25 Years.

Mr. John Hay Whitney, aged twenty-six, heir to the £48,000,000 estate left by his father, Mr. Payne Whitney, the banker, was married last month to the beautiful Miss Mary Elizabeth, Altomus,

aged twenty-four, of

Philadelphia. Among the ushers was Mr. Fred Astaire, of musical comedy fame,. while his sister, Miss Adele Astaire. was a bridesmaid. It was revealed carly this year that Mr. Whitney had been working for months as messenger boy for a New York bank, at a salary of less than £1 week, in order to learn the bank- from the bottom.up.""

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The transformation from mufti to khaki on the part of a Voluteering businces was yesterday the cause of a rather amusing incident. Leaving his Mr. Charles Matthews, builder, business the Volunteer was convey the Broadway, Thorpe Bay. ed in a ricksha to his residence, Essex, whose son, Captain F. R. and on getting out told the coolie Matthews, the well-known aviator to wait for his return. In a few who flew from England to Australia "The Love Parade," a gem of minutes the man had changed into recently, attended Southend Bank entertainment, is uniform and, on emerging from ruptcy Court for his public exami all-talking screen

The coolie, however, failing to re-to be 214,404, and assets £0,724. will be showing hgain in Hong his house, minde to enter the ricksha.. nation. His liabilities were stated Kong at the Majestic Theatre,cognise him, interposed, saying: Mr. Matthewa attributed his posi- Kowloon, for five days beginning No, no, have got gentleman, toption to his inability to soll his pro- to-day. It is the first musical side." The Volunteer, tried to experties at profit. The oxamina- romance written exclusively for the plain. All game men," he said,tion was adjourned. screen. Maurice Chevalier is starred and again attempted to board the

From an advertisement appear- | been recovered, ing elsewhere in this issue, it will be learned that the draw for sub- scription griffins will take place at the Hong Kong Jockey Club Stables this afternoon at 3 o'clock.

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23 months, only to reappear again The Nanking Finance Minister, and to continue its movements Mr. T. V. Boong, who left for ever higher speeds. When these two Canton to confer with the Canton in the production. Ernst Lubitsch ricksha. Again the coolfe drew off. An actor's wife chose a Friday and

was the director.

"Have got gentlen, n topside," he green wedding-dress for her "spots" meet is another mystery.leasics during the week-end, ye

Baid. Getting desperate, as th

to her husband. She is marriege This, the Abbé MOREAUX points turned to Hong Kong on Sunday

He is The first tea dance arranged by time was near for the departure of Mrs. Edward Woodings, wife of t ont, may be the beginning of evening by special train,

understood to be leaving on the the Ladies' Committee will be held the launch, the Volunteer prayed young English actor who played solidity destined perhaps to be the President Lincoln' this morning. in the Club Rooms of the Cheero the coolie to take him on, but with Jim Hawkins in "Treasure Island" (Naval and Military Y.M.C.A.) at out avail. In the circumstances the a few years ago. After the ceremony The Children's Day, held at the City Hall, from 3 to 7 this Volunteer had to summon another at St. Martin-in-the-Fields 3fr. evening. These gatherings proved ricksha, and drove off towards the Woodings sald:-"Wo were married Filipino Club on Saturday was an

Meanwhile the first coolie at the magistrato's office in Johan- most popular last winter, and a pier.. unqualified success, there being good attendance is expected. Ser began to realise that he had made nesburg three years ago today, I record attendance. After the spuria vice men are also reminded of the a mistake, and bolted after the had met my wife, then Miss Phi! but the case for China in opposition M. Doumergue, President of the Mrs. V. N. Atienza distributed the dance to be held in the City Hall other with his empty rickaha. At Buchanan, in South Africa, and we Entrion CLOSE st 12 Oʻalooke NOON,

French Republic, arrived at Pen- THURSDAY, 30 DUTOBER, to the proposal is quite fairly ex-dala from Marrakech and received Prizes Tea was served and during on Monday, November 3, for which the pier he approached the gentle decided to be married there. Sinc man with a carious expression on then I have been in America with an enthusiastic welcome on the part the afternoon, the Orient String tickets can new be obtained.

his face, and after some "talkee the company of Journey's End, pressed as follows:--

of the French and native popula-Orchestra provided soms excellent

talkee" he was paid. When he re-and this is the first anniversary of "Nevertheless, it is pertinent to tion, Penndin is a sea resort with music

A further hearing of the ease injoined the other coolien they ap our wedding that we have spent to. enquire whether China would scil

which Kwok Chun Bhing, a former parently demanded an explanation gether. So we decided to have a the New Territories, with the Boxer CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME Fund as a price, when the pre

manager of the local branch of the why one man should pay two faces, church ceremony in celebration." nounced foreign policy of the

Health Service Intelligence Bureau, and as the tale was unfolded to National Government is to get back

is charged in connection with an them their faces broadened into a allegedly forged voucher, took grin, while the narrator continued all the leased territories, including

piner yesterday before Mr. R. Ets wear a puzzled look. Hong the International Setifcreent and

Lindsell. The proprietor of the Rong Daily Press, October 26, Burenu, Mr. Show Choon Leng, 1906. French Concession in Shanghai,

gave evidence yesterday in connec Surely, the Concessions in Shanghai are more important than the New Fresh concern over the situation

tion with the voucher and the books Territories, yet would the Chinese in China was expressed in Washing

of the Bureau, Mr. Siow repented "authoritics delay for a second to ton last wock, as a message was re-

in general what he had said at pre- Bcoure the return of these territories ceived from Mr. Frank P. Lock-

ricus hearings of the same cose. to Chinese control 1 Burely, not! hurt, American Consul at Hankow,

The case was adjourned, until to Only last week, Dr. C. T. WANG, informing the State Department

day, the Foreign Minister, declared that that bandits have seized another the unequal treaties respecting group of missionaries. Other ban extra-territoriality will expire in its have also attacked an American three years and that most positively boat on the Yangtze, according to they will not be renewed.. At the Mr. Lockhart's cable. same time, it should be emphasized

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recently developed harbour facili- M. Emile Vandervelde, the chair tics and is rapidly increasing its: importance as an industrial and man of the Second Internationale agricultural centre. The President and the ex-Socialist Belgian Minis embarked on board the Colbert ter of Foreign Affairs, who is on tour of the Far East, returned amid zeclamations and alvocs. 3. Maginot, Minister of War, will re-to the Colony after a trip to Mac

on Sunday. He received Chin nain in Morocco for some time.

Press representatives. yesterday morning at the Peninsula Hotel.

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"Sping - Spong - Spong - Spoong, Shing-Shong-Shong-Shoong. Thing Theng-Thong Thoong." This is just one of the exorcinta in "You Can Sing" (Selwyn and Blount, 68). by mo, Clara Novello Davies, the Looking Back 50. Years,

celebrated singer... To book is a The day will assuredly come when complete education for anyone Charged With the unlawful

South Australia will be only too possessing the slightest claims to possession of 48 taels of raw opium,

to avail herself, of Chinese voice: Evory branch of singing, migration, If the Northern from doh, ra, mẹ to dist, has been Chinese was fined $1,440 or six.

Territory is ever to be settled and exhaustively explained, with many months by Mr. H. R. Butters

its resources to be developed it must helpful diagrams and sores of use- terday, whilst a woman who

When a Joki of a stall at Kun be done by Chinese labour, and if

musical" wrinkles,“ 39 tools of the drug was fined 8000 or five months. Appearing for Chung Market appeared before Mr. the trans-continental railway from the prosecution, RO. Tallon stated. Butters yesterday on the Port Darwin to Adelaide is to be Contrary to what was formerly both defendants were carriers from charge of cruelty to three pigeons, made it will be best accomplished reported, ex-President Irigoyen

it was stated that the man put the with the aid of Chinese. The and ministers of the former Argen that the Boxor Fund is returned Koenigsberg doctors are puzzled Canton

birds into a pot of boiling water Australian colonies will make a sad tine régime will be brought to court. not as a purchase price for some by the case of a 10-year-old girl'

At Kowloon Magistracy, yes when they were still alive. He was mistake if they adopt the policy The representatives of the Brazilia Chinese territory, but for the build who has been asleep for a week, FOR SALE. ing of railroads and other construe- and shows no signs of awakening terday, a Chinese who was charged fined $60. The defendant's master inaugurated by the Pacific States revolutionaries declare that the to the likely, as has frequently been point crament are totally unfounded. "It VALUABLE LEASEHOLD tive, works for the benefit of Chint. She collapsed in a canoes, and it with the theft of clothing and in his evidence said that his man of America. The Chinese are not optimistic statements of the Gov

UUTING SITES 10 X64 the Boxer Fund can be teed, for was at first thought that she had with returning to the Colony from was arrested, he went

ideal heat lake the fist any, ut the throat of the pigeon Cotonter, and in the tropical rs troons approaches Cuyaba enpital contemplated between China and to be i

count, and six months with whith was all live Two of the gioi Theaterial de sars

the second. It was birds were already dead when he to the growth of the prosperity of regiment & Camerando is shit

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