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THE DISARMAMENT DISCUSSION.

COMMITTEE CONCLUDES ITS PROGRAMME.

GERMANY'S ASSURANCE.

Geneva,, Dec. 2.

The Security Committee has concluded its work,

ment

was

HONGKONG PRISON

LAW.

LOCAL ORDINANCE TO BE AMENDED."

The Gazette contains the draft of

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

LITHUANIA AGAIN

PEEVED..

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ALLEGATIONS OF PLOT BY REVOLUTIONISTS.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1927.

The Very Idea!

She had just gone through the long catalogue of her various ail- ments, and the doctor was secretly cherishing the hope that at last

an Ordinance to amend the Frisons ANOTHER NOTE TO LEAGUE. he was about to get rid of her. Ordinance, 1899, which is shortly to be introduced.

At the consulting-room door, however, she remarked, "Why, doctor, you've forgotten to look at my tongue."

"It's quite unnecessary, madara,” he replied, "grass doesn't grow on a racecourse!"

London, Dec. 2. Another long Note has been addressed to the Secretary of the League of Nations by M. Valde miras, the Premier of Lithuania, alleging that more revolutionary

Deafness of plota against the Government of Lithuania are being" hatched in cannot Poland by Lithuanian political refugees, with the cognizance of Marshal Pilsudski-Reuter.

The Objects and Reasons state: It has been the practice for to transfer to the many years

Civil. Hospital The most noteworthy pronounce-Government

Count prisoners who, in the pinion of that

the medical officer Bernstorf, giving un assurance of of

prison In which such Germany's readiness to co-operate the

are confined, in disarmament, while hinting at prisoners a desire for a revision of the Treaty properly be treated in the prison hospital. There is now a special of Versailles..

ward, Ward Thirteen, in the Gov- ernment Civil Hospital, which is selfcontained and is arranged as a prison. This ward has, however,

The next session will probably be held on February 20. The programme of work adopted by the

Committee includes consideration not been set apart as a prison un-

Polish Accusations.

Warsaw, Dec. 2.

A long statement in connexion

of measures to promote machinery der the Prisona Ordinance, 1899, with the state of war under- to Recently, therefore, it was "pre- taken by Lithuania" has been

of the League with a view

enabling the members to perform posed to make an order setting their obligations under the Coven-His ward apart as a prison, but ant, and also a study of a scheme doubts were raised as to whether for financial assistance to Slates the power conferred on the Gov- which are threatened with agres-ernor by section 2 of the Prisons sion.-Reuter.

U.S. Derides. Soviet.

New York, Dec. 2. There is no sympathy in the

United States for M. Litvinoff's absolute disarmament plan.

Ordinance. 1899, included a power to set apart a portion of a build- ing, because the wording of para- graph (1) of that section is, "to set apart any available. sites and. buildings."

FINE TO CLOUDY.

The local weather forecast up to noon to-morrow is:

N.E. winds, fresh; fine ti

cloudy. Accordingly. para- graph (a) of section 2 of this Or- dinance repeals the words "any The World declares that the pro-available sites and buildings" and

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posal reeks with hypocrisy and subsitutes the words "any place issued by Marshal Pilsudski." for Litvinoff to pretend that the or building or portion of a build-describes Soviet is run by non-resistinging." "Ward Thirteen." pacifista is a very poor joke"

British Delegate Satisfied.

"Ward Thirteen.”

the Polo-Lithuanian frontier as a source of alarm and anxiety, where no ordinary work is possible except under arms.

The

l'ilsudski, suggests that Valde- maras is irresponsible" and has produced "arguments worthy of the muadhouse."---Renter.

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has led to the dis- covery of a pes in a woman's ear, which had been thore for 35 years, and had been forgotten.

The story is told in the current Issue of the British Medical Journal by a doctor living at Banbury. In a letter he says:-

eurs.

THE PIRACY OF THE SIANG TAN.

CAPTAIN LALOR'S PREVIOUS RECORD.

YANG SEN'S NEW ROLE.

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The following official account of the piracy of the ss. Siang Tan, on the Yangtsze--reported yester- day is given in a British wireless 'message;

Thirty armed bandits, in ix Sampans, on Wednesday night at tacked the British-steaner Siang Tan, when anchored on the Yang-

tsźc 16 miles below Ichang.

They killed the second engineer," one quartermaster and one of the The master, compradore staff. Captain Lalor, was taken prisoner.

The commanding Officer of His

A woman, aged 45, complained of deafness. On examination she Majesty's ship Aphis has arranged was found to have wax in both with General Yang Seu that are From one ear as well as parties should be sent to attack wax a rounded hard black body was the banditas. The gunboats Gnat recovered, which had the ap and Bee, the latter flying the flag. pearance of a pea. She stated of Rear-admiral Tweedie, are pro- that at the age of 12, when in-ceeding to the scend of the outrage. dulging with some other children in the sport of potting peas up her nostrils and in her ears she found she was unable retrieve one ahe had placed in her left ear.

ing a pea.

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Willesden man. This policeman ran me in because I was running Shoreditch debtor: My wife down the police, minds my pawrtickets.

Solicitor t Shoreditch County Court: Try to keep your wife quiet at home. Man: She is my

perienced.

Man at Lambeth: I said to my I cannot hear wife-Barrister:

She was taken on the following day to a doctor, who discredited the story. but told her father to the MLAS

put warni oil drops Into meatus. From that time until now itshe had consulted-- no one about her cars, had not noticed any deafness, and had put the whole incident at the back of her mind. This story was confirmed and amplified by her father, On moro The Berid Tribune says that Under the practice" referred to

"For years past one brother has minute examination no doubt exist Litvinoff is the spirit of malicious above it has been usual to obtain inconsequence in the playbox of the sanction of the Governor for been unable to see another, nor aed in my mind (adds the writer) each removal of a prisoner to the mother from her deathbed address as to the foreign body in question Moscow's unrealistic world.

The New York Times says that Government Civil Hospital. This a farewell to her children. the Soviet does not propose to is unsatisfactory in two respects. I most urgent ngws arrives' a "week" abolish all military power. If it in the first place, & doubt may be inte." did, how could it send out tax-expressd as to whether the Gov ernor has power to order a prison- collectors to shoot down the re- bellious peasants, without guns?er to be removed from a prison to a place which is not a prison. Reuter's American Service.

That particular point will be met when Ward Thirteen is set apart as a prison under the present Or London, Dec. 2.dinance. In the second place, it CANADIAN ARRESTED.irst wife, and you have to get ex- Speaking on the work of the seems unnecessary that the Gov- should have to make a Security Commission, which ad- ernor journed this morning to assemble special order in each case in a very probably on February 20 matter which may quite properly DEPORTATION. TO BE SOUGHT. next, Lord Cushendur stated that be placed in the discretion of the

A man who is versed in five he was perfectly satisfied with the Superintendent of Prisons. Again, questions which had been referred it has hitherto been the practice languages and who is stated to to the bureau of the commission in for priseners to he transferred have travelled extensively between order that a set of resolutions for from Victoria Goal to Tai Chi Kokvarious ports in the Far East. was, the next meeting be drafted. He Prison, and vice versa, under the taken into custody last night when added, "We have new really out-authority of the Superintendent of the Fushimi Mani arrived here with him as a passenger. There

A "tootling" pedestrian has ap- lined the basis of discussion.Prisons. Here again a doubt may

is much speculation 48.40 his he expressed as to the power of the British Wireless..

Superintendent to order such lentity, une report stating that peared in the streets of Southamp- Fixed to his walking stick transfers. Accordingly,

a Canadaían who has been tou. new he is Et section 4 which is inserted in the long sought for by the police of is a small but very noisy motor principal Ordinance by suetim: 3 two countries on a charge of being horn, on which he sounds blasts as of this Ordinance will give the implicated in a big conspiracy warning to motorists that he

to is about to cross the rond. amounting Superintendent of Prisons clear wherein power to order transfers of Both several hundred thousand dollars the above classes. That amend are said to be involved. ment will make paragraph (383) of

The name of the man has not section 2.of the principal Ordin-heen disclosed, but on enquiries at LANCE unnecessary. The para-Police Headquarters this morning, According to the New York graph" in question gives confirmation was obtained of the Times negotiations have Deen the Governor power. make arrest of a European, described' practically concluded between the orders. Lo remove prisoners to be a Canadian, who will be pro-and festive Deans, but all Deans Abyssinian Government and the from one prison to another. That duced before the Magistrate on a Ford. J. G. White Engineering Corpora- paragraph is therefore now repeal deportation warrant. tion of New York to build a damed by paragraph (b) of section 20 costing £1,000,000 across the Blae of this Ordinance. Nile where it emerges from Lake Teana.

THE BLUE NILE WATERS.

·US, PLAN FÖR A GREAT DAM.

flows.

Now Yark, Nov. 3.

to

Superintendent's Powers.

sums

The health bulletin of East- ports for the week ending Saturday last, issued by the Prin

ipal Civil Officer, contains the fol-

in evidence what you said to your wife. Man: Very well. I said Woman ht Mansfield: This to myself it that way. debt was in-cured at Coventry,

be sent to Coventry. The judge: Then you had better

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The less you eat the better you arc-Dame Henrietta Barnett.

Talk of war with Russia is so much crazy nonsense.--Mr. J. R. Clynes, M.P.

We have known gloomy Deans are begging Deans. Dr. Lionel

The secret of happiness in a marriage between two professional people is to have the man's job the

Jack biggest.-Mrs.

Dempsey (Estelle Taylor.)

An applicant for relief appeared the other evening. before a Parish Counell Committee

"Are you destitute?" asked the chairman.

The dam will hold back the Section 3 of "this Ordinance in, floods which periodically lay waste parts of Abyssinia, and will serts a new section 4 in the irrigate and enrich the Sudan, principal Ordinance. The main

thesis indicating deaths: Plague, It will also make it possible to effect of the new section is to give wing cases, the figures in paren- kontrol the Blue Nile and furnish the Superintendent of. Prisons Alexandria (3), Passein (3), Ran goun (5), Colombo. 1, Macassar irrigation for the British possess powers to make the tranfers re-

(1); Cholera. Calcutta (306), "Absolutely so," declared the sions through which the riverferred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 abover-This subject is dealt with

"Well, you certainly don't look Mr. White intends to build then sub-sections (2) and (3). Sub-Madras (1), Rangoon (2) Tuti- other. dam with his own money and to section (4) provides that prisoners corin (7), Singapore (2), Batavia sell the water to the British for of unsound mind shall be dealt(); Small-pox. Basrah 1 (1),like it."

with in the manner prescribed by Bombay 4 (1), Caleattu 4 (2) irrigation purposes,

In interviews with Reuter's cor- the Asylums Ordinance, 1906. Madras 2 (2). Rangoon 5 (1), respondent to-day the details Strictly speaking this sub-section Tuticorin 12, (1), Balikpapan (1) were confirmed by Mr. White, the sunnecessary, but it was consider. Banjarmasin 29 (1), Samarinda vice-president of the earporation, ed that it would be convenient to and Mr. Yuliner. the American direct attention by means of it to agent for Dr. Wargnch Martin, the relevant provisions of the the special envoy sent to America (Asylums Ordinance.

Sub-section

(1), Düren 1, Sourabaya 3.

"Mebbe no," responded the ap- plicant, "Like is never a guid heid mark. I take efter ma faither in fined the joiner said he was the that matter. When he was cof- healthiest-lockin' corp ere he saw. But the auld chup was deid a' the same!"

the

of

The Siang Tan is a vessel of: 1,105 tons, and belongs to the China Navigation Company, Cap- tain Lalor, who is now being held to ransom, was in September last year in command of the steamer Wanlia when it was seized by Chinese soldiers at Wanhojen. The Chinese then threatened to kill him, but he was rescued by

British naval force, which board- ed the vessel in which he was im- prisoned and released him in the face of a point-blank fire from the Chinese soldiery, Capt. Lalor has long experience of the intricate navigation of the upper Yangtsze. By a curious turn of fortune, Gen eral Yang Sen, whose soldiers have now been sent to attack Capt. Lalor's present capturers, was in command of the troops which made him prisoner at Wanhsien last year.

UNREST ON THE WEST RIVER.

CHINESE SHIPPING DELAYED.

an

A vernacular newspaper states that tepsion report

the West River has and, according to latest reports from Canton, the Kwangsi-ites have concentrated a continued,

good number of troops at Konghow, a city south-east of Wuchow, fur- As there is ther down the river. quite a big army of "Ironsides" units taking up positions in the vicinity of Konghow it is believed that hostilities between the two sides may take place at almost any

moment.

The s.. Kwong Ying, a Hong- kong-Wuchow, vessel, scheduled to arrive in Hangkeng from Wuchuw yesterday, was delayed. The same

report says that enquiries from the shipping company revealed that even at a fairly late hour last night the vessel had not:furned up, and consequently it is supposed that some sort of fighting has taken place in the upper West River dis- tricts, which, bas delayed the ves- sel's departure. -

The as. Sunning, which left Wuehow on Wednesday evening for Hongkong, and which should have delayed. Enquiries, disclose that arrived here on Thursday, was also when the vessel was berthed at Dosing, the Chinese Customs sent some of their men on board, to make a search for illicited opium. The search took a long time, hence the schedule was affected.

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In consequence of convictions by the Abyssinian Government(1) of the new section 4 introduces ment benefit by Mr. Norman

Shaw, the Clyde Lighthouse against the owners of straying who has just returned to Africa. a provision taken from section 17 Dr. Martin was sent here as fully of the Criminal Administration keeper, who was dismissed for re-

fusing to take part in wireless tests stock being set aside by the Appeal accredited agent of the Prince Act, 1914, to the effect that a

are, being made by one Municipal Regent Ras Tafari Makonnen. prisoner may be lawfully confined from Toward Light on Sundays Court of New South Wales, efforts According to Dr. Yuttner, Dr. in any prison to which the Or has been refused on appeal to the Council, says a Sydney journal, to

It may be added Deputy Umpire of the Ministry of Martin acted with the full know-dinance applies.

powers of the councils. The clause of this issue. ledge of the American Government that sub-sections (2) and (3) of Labour. The Court of Referees remove any ambiguity is to the previously disallowed the of the Act has not yet, however, and had several talks with Presi- the new section 4 are also based had

on section 17 of the same Act. benefit for six weeks and Shaw's been tested by the Full Court. dent Coolidge and Mr. Kellogg.

Asked whether the British Gov-The powers there given are in case was taken to the Deputy Um- Meanwhile, facetiously suggests

councils of Labour Gazette." pernment had been advised of the England vested in the Secretary of pire, whose report appears in the the journal, negotiations Dr. Yuttner replied State for the Home Department.Ministry" that so far as he knew it had not. but it is considered that they may The Deputy Umpire states: The municipalities where gardens are He understood that the Abyssinian be properly given to the Superin- applicant's employers had good rea- being destroyed by wandering cows son for asking him to take extra at night might pass an ordinance Government considered it was attendent of Prisons in Hongkong.

Sunday duty on the occasion in making it compulsory for owners liberty to award such contracts

Prohibited Articles.

question. He does not profess to to provide their straying stock wherever it wished.

time No confirmation has been re- Sections 12 and 13 of the princi- have conscientious objection to do with tail lights. This, however, is

Courier some lttle he had no valid grounds for tak-the ceived by the British Government pal Ordinance overlap, and for no ing necessary Sunday work, and no new idea. As announced by of the above report, and it is apparent reason the maximum pen-

police, of Bradford, have been pro- believed in well-informed circles,alties under the two sections are ing up the attitude he did take." since, the horses of the mounted vided with tail lights, to help avoid The diacrepency that under the terms of the not the same.

accidents. by making their position treaty between Great Britain and is made more serious by an un-

more discernible on dark country Abyssinia no such agreement could usual provision that section 13

repealed by this. Ordin roads, in these days of rapidly mov- be made. The question of the con- shall not apply in any case where

ance. Section 4 of this Ordinance Ling traffic. atruction of a dam has been under the offender is liable to a more discussion between the British and severe punishment under any repeals section 12 of the princi-

Little Sniffleblister "Say, Uncle, Abyssinian Government for some other provision of the Ordinance. pal Ordinance and substitutes time.

The maximum penalty" under seca new section dealing with the

ball again?" tion 12, is more severe than that whole subject of the introduction when are you going to play foot The Rich Uncle "Why, I don't under section 18. A conviction of prohibited articles into prisons.

play football. What makes you soecer under acction 18 might therefore be Bection 5 of this Ordinance repeals

of the principal Orank me that question?" A special exhibition

new Little Snifflebilster "Well, Pop 11 match between the Royal Navy and quashed on this ground, and yet section 18

it might not be clear in any parti-dinance and substitutes a the Chinese Athletic has been arranged to take place on the cular case which of the two section which deals with improper save that when you kick off we H.K.F.C. ground to-morrow after-sections should apply. Accord supply or use of prohibited articles are going to get a brand-new motor 19

and a house." ingly these two sections within any prison. noon, commencing at 4 p.m.

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What common metal of to-day

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What was the Treaty of Ur- bridge?

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What famous scientist whose

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Doyle

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Conan the Sherlock created Holmes typo of detectidef When was it an offence to wear shoes with too pointed toes? What was the Pensioned Parlia- 'ment?

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