1920-06-29 — Page 1

Hongkong Telegraph.

(ESTABLISHED

·69161-弍拜畫 號九廿月六英港香 TUESDAY, JUNE)

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

THE IRISH UNREST,

PROSPECTS OF FEACE IN DERRY.

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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

LEAGUE OF MATIONS ASSEMBLY.

THE FIRST MEETING,

Washington. Igg 147,

1920.

London. Juos 26. The sitation in Londonderry is easier. A few shots have been tired, moesly in the air. The military is aotive questioning and of the Assembly of the League of Nations. Oficials stat jäha

The Allies have asted President Wilson to call these meeting searching all pedestriana after dark. The city is gradually becom-call will not be issued immediately, as the time and ing rormal. The prospects of peace are good.

Viscount French, speaking at Belfast to-day, said the Governmeeting have not yet been decided. Soms favour

others Brass: Is.

ment would never entertain proposals for the establishment of an Irish Republic or the coercion of Ulster The Clovernment was determined that the Irish people should enjoy the same privileges and protection as other parts of the United Kingdom, and it would not hesitate to employ the forces at its disposal to attain that end.

CIVIL AVIATION.

CONCENTRATION ON EGYPT-INDIA ROUTE

Landos, June 0.

The Report of the Advisory Committee on Civil Aviation says as regards the development of Imperial air routes that concentration must be made on one rante, namely from Egyp: to India. It recom- mends Jirect State assistance to companies operating foreign routes, Jimited to a maximum of £250,000 for two years. It does not recom- mend State assistance for long-distance routes within the British Isles.

General Trenchard disented from the payment of aɔsistance, preferring to allot money to design and research.

WIMBLEDON TENNIS.

ANCOUER STIRRING CONTEST."

THE COURT OF JUSTICE.

of the

SNAKE KILLED IN HONGKONGS

· OVER TEN FRET, LONG,

It is not often that wi [report such happi

captures.

Etila

the

always ban convit

It remains

INGLE CAPY: 10 Us. $36 PER ANN (OM -

BURGLARS BUSY.

BROKER'S OTHŒE -

RMS CURLEW.

OR VISER ARRIV

The lighterai

The Hague, June 26. It is officially announced that the Jurists A dvisory Committer of the League of Nations bas decided to recommend the Hague as O'Conner le produos the stor, sant of the permanent Court of International Justice." The Cours hin firat anaku bunt which should mittee generally adopted the view that the Court should be open only speedily win the Colony back to cases brought by States, not by individuals, who would have the into the famour of the naturalists see their way whkent exciting

pöbern, to, haly, ther protection of their Gaveramente.

In this hunt there ware all the the suspicion of the Wichman gazines, Bollère, etc., are enclosed

Tas Carlea's michnery, details of an exciting story, and who is supposed-to-sleep-izren under a steel-protective our reader will have the pleasure small room under the skirense. further protected by, arom to learn that for once, at least, its truth can be vouched for.

The burglars took down the bulkheads, the deak extending on *clock and removed" avish box, the sides beher: the wafar-Hos In the absance of learned in-whilst the big sale of the office Her armament comprises five formation we arợ ndable to say showed signs of having been the naw powerful 6-in, güne what species this partienjar tampered with. A -knife «was long "rátund" - and accurate; sosko was bok if the details of also found in the oibos, and a weapons of their libre wo the white and yellow warkings guany bag which was syparently 2-in. sati-airersft, guns, four-3 on its boir are a cine to its brought to have been used in poundère "gins," and a coup classification we gladly give them carrying away the booty, to the naturalists. Further the

of anti-akurait pompons, a néi unake was 10 feet 5 inches long wore disturbed in their work and prominence in the South Afriend It is presumed that she thieves Hittle gan, originally brought inte whon shot by the Bergeant, and monda a hurried exit, leaving bɛ- War - and rufntroduon?, diria as the species to which it belongs bind the gunny bag and knife the lete WIE

LATEST SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

(From thur Can Correspondent)

LABOUR DISORDER IN SHANGHAI.

DUE TO HIGH PRICE OF RICE.

Labour disorder and strikes are spreading, with incipiest riotiza

Shanghai, Junë 29. due to the rice of price, which has mounted to from $15-$20 per

It is estimated that there are four days' supply available.

Lundes, June 27. At Wimbledon, in the fourth round of the Singles Competition,picul Tilden (America) beat Kingscote (England) by 6-3, 3-7, 6 %, 5-1, 6-3, It was the most sensational singles ever son on the centre court, owing to the sustained bard bitting of both men. Tilda's hurricane, services were returned in most gallant fashion.at a tremendous pace. The fraule was in doubt till the Lui stroke. other well-known players declam that sub tenuis is of a classabead Riteble and of that of the Doherts era.

COUNTY CRICKET..

Lezden. June 25,

Cmtridge beat Sussex by 181 runs.

Gloucestershire beat Essex by an innings and 56 russ.

The Oxford r: Surrey match was drawo,

Lancashire beat Derby hyn innings and 228 rubs.

Nottingham beat Hampshire by six wickets.

THE AMERICA CUP.

VESOLUTE TO OFFOSE SHAMROCK 17.

Newport, Rhode Island, June 27.

The Cap Defence Committee has chosen the Resolute to defend the America Cup agains: Shamrock IV. The first race is firal for July 15.

THE PRINCE IN‘AUSTRALIA.

Sydney, June 6. The Prince of Wales' visit to New South Wales concluded yesterday. A noticeable feature of the tour was the enthusiasm o the workmen, who, on the Prince's departure for Western Australia.! shouted "Good-bye, Ted: bave a good time."

Prior to departure, the Prince visited Newcastle, where immense crowds repeated the enthusiastic welcome given his throughout his tour. His Royal Highness inspected a number off steel and other works and launched a 6,000-ton State huil: steamer.

FRENCH FOREIGN POLICY.

TO-DAY'S CHINESE TELEGRAMS.

is not know, there is no danger offand averything that they had of the Carlow wi

contradiction of the statement gathered together during their£850,000, of which sun thei that it might live to grow lo`a brief stay. hundred feet long!...

N, 7 Police Station, at about 9 Sergeant ('Connor was in the

p last night, when the alarming FROM HONGKONG...

message was brought to him that

a kasko had taken up its quaṛters

in the comfortable cackleft of Wo}, THOSE GOLDEN TRESSES.

Bing Bogar Radasty at Daris,

Street, Kenedy Towns Fl

ment took up some £18,000.

-Coplain William - Miibarisa pointed a cadet in James, CB, who commends the September, 1897, was prozvočed Heutenant in 1902-specialising in gunsary in the mekating ——~ was promoted commander in 1913, srv) captain in Qotobar 1917, Be

had been persanded to lau haunts on the hillside and groep

the cruiser Queen Mary when liato the building remains a clories of "sweet girl graduates, with that ship in various affairs Could Tennyson have iũng tho the war broke out, sad served mystery, unless the explanatioL in their golden hair," or mused on prior to the Battle of Jutland, in that it was fond of sugar is worthy how the lady fair was robed in which she was sunk. He was of consideration.

the long night of her deep hair," appointed Deputy Director of the Suffice it to say that Sergif be bad read the consular ro-Naval Intelligence Staff at the O'Connor on receiving the report ports? immediately took up a shot gun

Admiralty la 1917, and held that - Shanghai, June 28.

"Tis doubtful, indeed, Information from Hankow states that Yochow fell on the morn-Hogs and forthwith repaired to muse sang of “fair tresses" that and given the C. B. for hh used by the Police to kill strayed It is well that Pope, whose He was mentioned in dispatches appointment ap till recently. ing of the 26th, and that Chang Bang yao retreated to Ka Yue. The the Refinery. The cockloft was "man's imperial race ensoare." services in the war. railways near Yochow bave been lestroyed by the Sodbent dark, and it troops.

WRX situsted bad not examined the trade sta- high op at the back of 'stice.

YOCHOW-CAPTURED BY SOUTHERN TROOPS,

THE PRICE OF GIVING UP OFFICE.

Shanghai, June 28.

THE SIXEWS OF WAR.

Peking. June 28. Ten thousand ifles and 20,000 boxes of ammunition have been supplied to Li Hox-kee. Tuchon of Fooobox, for offensive purposes.

10ther Early and Special Telegrams on Page 2

the building. to which How fortunate that Shakes- communication is secured by peare lived before import figures

means of a ladder. Under these were invented, else bad he never HUMPHREY circumstances a prudent snake-written-

hunter would pause twice to reflect before he ascended into where the. anake

he

loft

to make

And ber sanny locks

Hang on her temples like a

golden fleece."

BISHOP

COMPANY.

Oh, man, the next time you Last night ropest show at the

*S be walk down the street and torn to Theatre Royal was another

Tuan Chi-jui, the chief of Anfa Party, has agreed to the giving might be waiting up of the poets of Ministers of Finance, Communications and Justice i in the Cabinet, on condition tha: the Ministers of the said posts appeared. Sergeant O'Connor, admits the golden tresses of some success for the Haumphrey Bishop

spring as Bither be appointed as chiefs of Bateaux or lavishly financed to tour however had foreign countries, and also that no faults of any kind during their dangers than this. With a small they may have come from Hors-was carried out with a delightful faced greater beauteous maiden, remember, Company. A varied programme terms of office be punished if found out by their successors.

It is erop.co said that Chang Jok-lim bas agreed to all these proposals.

light his way and kong!

swing and there were repeated eventually to show him where Consul General Deorge E. An-requests for encores. The Jazz the snake lay in one hand.derson reports a greatly increas Drummer, Bert Crawford, again and with the shot xoned demand from both the United acquitted bimself in the other the intrepid Sergeant States and Great Britain for ho-lcredit, proving himself a regular with great ascended into the loft, only to man hair. The stocks of hair in orchestra. with the strange find that the stake, undisturbed Hongkong sta small and prices assortment of musical instru by his noiseless approach, we have been advancing rather rap-ments be gathered about him. loft. apparently sleeping the United States, he reports, is ed a striking tablean for the song coiled up in one corner of the idly. The demand from the The Oriental scens, which form- the steep of the contented. Rang!labgost exclusively for the longer. "Dream, While the Incense by went the shot the her grades of hair, while Europe Burning. was very effective andk next second the snake was purchases the shorter, coarser could stand the test of a ra stone dead with its head almost grades.

petition with the audience being blown off by the discharge but The total exports of human hair just as happy as still wriggling about in a horrid from the colony in 1919 were ragtimes and other Bears to aver From way. Its long big coiled round a (853.133 pounds, valued at $410,-dances, it was's highly astertain- The Police have received carried on the shoulders of two $228,395 worth of this.

bamboo pole, the dead reptile was 529. The United States tooking show that the Company_put complaint from a Chinese wOMAD

on the boards last night. There

suffering from a number of in this morning, brought out the fact who was yesterday admitted into

husky coolies to the Police Station. As Goethe wrote:

should be a big house at the

juries. She stated that her lord that the enake had been sent to the Government Civil Hospital Exquiries which we pursued

"Beware of her fair hair, for Theatre Royal this evening when

the excels

the Company is presenting ile and master had committed the Slaughter House where it is

All women in the magic of third complete change of pr

hor locks: grievous assault on her. He bad being skinned before being stuffed

gramme. One of the principal And when she winds them items will be "The Wedgwood begun it at their house in and deposited in the City Hall

round a young man's neck, Classics" and those who Shanghai Street by tapping her Maseur.

She will not ever set him free were To preserve peace and order, head with an iron bar and then

privileged to witness The Chamber passed the Budget for Foreign Affairs and two has ordered that all passengers down

the anton Military Government he hustled

again."

this dainty little poi-pourri on items in the Ministry of War Budget asking for 500,000,000 france coming to Canton by the Canton.street.

and kicked ber

Bot-thes may be from the occasion of ・the Com in connection with the operations in the East, after a speech by M. Kowloon Railroad will be subject

the staira into the

Hongkong!

pany's last vixit will remember: Millerand, who told that France would pursue a diplomatic rather to search. The Government fears

how attractive the item proved. than a military policy in Asia Minor and Syria.

Sa far as present arrangements go, the Company's "viit" will extend until Saturday, and it is already assured of good patronage [until then.

M. PHIAND'S CUTAPOKEN CRITICISM.

Paris, June 25. -

DAY. BY DAY. French policy in the Near East and reproached the Government for estimated value of $10,000. were 'Over 750 als of opium of an not imitating the policy of Britain, which was always. like a fair seized by Revenus Officers on the boter, prepared to give blows and receive them.

In the Charaber, the ex-Premier, M. Briand. criticised the weak

FRENCH FINANCIAL VOTES.

Paris, June 26.

GERMAN DEFENCE MINISTER 'RESIGNS.

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steamers Hoi Hong and Fatsban during the week-end. The drug was found concealed.

that some harm may be done to the Military Government pré mises, which are near the railroad line.

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DON'T FORGET

TO-DAY:"

BRITISH OFFICERS IN AIR COLLISION. Intent or securing his object,

According to a Lokalanzeiger an electric bulb connected with report from Cologne, two British the lighting installation, of the seroplanes collided in the air at} Berlin, May 26.

Po Hing Theatre, Cainese under-Lindenthal near there recently. Theatre Royal. — Herr Gessler, the new Minister of Defence, has resigned as a auction by order of the court, grind in being given an electric 450 feet. Two officers were küll Coronet Theatre --5.15 and 9.15

Messrs. Lammert Bros, sold by went the risk of paying for bis Both crashed from beight of Bishop-9.15 p.m.

Humphrey result of the Allied Note regarding the reduction of the German yesterday, the British steamer shock. He pulled down the wires ed, and one officer and one p.m. Army.

Jehangir, now lying in Hoogkong in an indeseḍminating way, and mechanic were slightly injured. barbour. The Jehangir is of 3360. It was fortunate for him that a Names of the dead officers are and 9.15 p.

Hongkong Thestre -5.15, 715||| T1 registered tonnage and was interruption came from the given by the Air Ministry ne bailt by Maweza. W. Dandy Theatre poeple, otherwise, the Flight-Lieut. . B. Ridley and Brother, Dumbarton. The shir stage ftwulf would bays been set Flying Uficer 1. D. de Pebelez Socialist, Herr Loabe, has been elected President of the Bearis, Policitor, on behalf of set the Police Cage fasir works ELTIM swords flying was purchased by Mr. EH on fire. Hewe te day sentenced both offerta of No 15 Squadron, lebient, for $165,000.

SOCIALIST AS REICHSTAG PRESIDEŃT:

Berlin, June 28.

KOZBOW.

Coronet

zito-5. 15, and 9.15)

TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE.

closing rúta off to-day was