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EM WE+AFWEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1928. A♬
FAMOUS LIBERAL'S UPROAR AT CHURCH BRITISH AIRMAN'S
DEATH.
EARL OF OXFORD AND ASQUITH.
VETERAN STATESMAN'S FINE
CAREER ENDS...
A NATIONAL LOSS.
London, Feb. 14. The Earl of Oxford and Asquith has passed away-Router.
CONVENTION.
BISHOP THREATENS TO CALL POLICE.
GREYHOUND BETTING.
London, Feb. 14. Nine hundred delegates repre senting religious and social wel fare organisations attended a Con- vention at Church House, West- minster, to consider greyhound racing betting. The Blahop of Lichfield presided.
The Lord Mayor of Manchester was much heckled when he moved
RECORD.
MAGNIFICENT FLIGHT BY HINKLER.
CROYDON TO KARACHI IN SEVEN DAYS.
ALLEGED RACE, FRAUDS.
CHARGES AGAINST TWO R‚Á.
SOLDIERS.
TICKET MUTILATION?
Two soldiers, Corporal J. David- son and Bombardier G. H. Lowe, of the 31st Company, Royal Ar- tillery, who were employed by the Hongkong Jockey Club during the Race Days, appeared before. Mr. R. E. Lindall this morning. charged with (1) attempting to steal 375, (2) alleged embezzle- ment of $75 and (3) fraud of $76 by mutilating entrance tickets.
Mr. M A. Wadeson appeared for the Jockey Club, and, on his 1
COMMUNIST PLOT IN SWATOW.
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POLICE LAY PLOT FOR CONSPIRATORS.
MANY EXECUTIONS.
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DOCTOR ABRAHAM'S CHAMPIONS WON IN
EXPERIMENT.
ARTERIES REMOVED: TO TEST. ATHLETIC EFFECT.
THEORY DISPROVED,
RECORD TIME.
ELLIOTT BAY ROMPS HOME.
London, Feb. 14. DUNBAR STABLE MAKES RACE
Medical men and athletes. ara extremely interested in wa‘SIVUTİ- mont which has been made by Doctor Adolpho. Abrahams, of Westminster Hospital, DE," Abra- hams had an artery removed from hla arm to sea if his twenty seven years of strenuous athletics had led to a deterioration of his ar terics, and it was found to be in
A Communist plot, timed for Friday last, was discovered by the polles on Thursday, and that night, by a ruse, they lay in wait at the condition.
house which was used as the head-
Dr. Abrahams considered that this goes to disprove the theory that athletes suffer i effects, as is often suggested.
CLASSIC
SPLENDID VICTORY.
The weather was unkind for Champions Day at the Annual Races, opening at noon with the Foochow Cup Race. To-day, the third of the meeting, in more popularly known as Ladies Day, and in spite of the dull and some what chilly weather, with little hope of the overcast sky being dispelled the ladies were not deterred from ‘a wonderful display of colour.
NEW POSSIBILITIES.
London, Feb. 14. Captain Hinkler arrived to-day a resolution to empower local aut Karachi, India, on his flight to The late Earl of Oxford and thorities to prevent the distur-
bance of their amenities, to the Australia in an Avian light aero- Asquith, who was 75 years of age, enrichment of greyhound racing plane. To have flown from Eng-plication, a remand until Tuesday was raised to the Peerage three shareholders and bookmakers, and land to India in seven days un-afternoon was granted years ago. He was Prime Minis-calling on the Government to make
doubtedly ranks as one of the betting on greyhound tracks illegal.
finest feats of aviation yet per One interrupter shouted:-"It is formed.
best and the working man's
The flight opens up entirely new cheapest sport,"
possibilities as most of the big The resolution was overwhelm trans-continental flights have been was educated at City of Londoningly carried,, whereupon an up-accomplished by special high- THE CASH SWEEPS. Swatow for the idol processions. “When you go in for four or five race was seen. Victory went
raar broke out.
ter and First Lord of the Treasury --succeeding the late Sir H. Camp- bell-Bannerman-from April, 1998,
to Dec., 1916. A Yorkshireman, ha
School, went with a scholarship to
powered machine. Balliol; and followed up a bril
The Bishop of Lichfield threa lant career at Oxford by making tened to call the police to restore exactly the same as the machine Capt. Bert Hinkler's machine is an enviable reputation at the Bar. order. He first entered Parliament in
Eventually, the disturbance sub-used by many private owners fu 1886. He reliquished a ne prac-sided, and other resolutions were
British Flying Clubs. tlee at the Bar when he took UP adopted deploring the effect of politica.
First Office.
greyhound betting on young peo- ple, and asking the Government to receive a deputation on the sub-
BRITAIN'S LITTLE
His first office was that of Home| jeek-Reuter.. Secretary, to which he Was appointed in Mr. Gladstone's Fourth Ministry in 1892, In Opposition from 1885, until 1906, be became Chancellor of the Ex- chequer in Sir Henry Campbell- Bannerman's Government. He re signed from the leadership of the Liberal Party in October, 1926.
Lord Oxford was twice married -on the second occasion to Miss Margol Tentant, daughter of Sir Charles Tennant.
"No Vanity."
Writing at the time of Mr. Asquith's elevation to an Earldom, a correspondent In the London Observer stated:-11 is probably true that the man-in-the-street has
in
WAR OVER.
SUDAN TRIBESMEN HAVE SURRENDERED.
Khartoum, Fob. 14. Military operations against the Nuer and Nuong tribesmen, follow- ing the murder of Captain Fer- gusson, the District Commissioner
Bahr, are virtually at an end, states an official communique is sued to-dily.
re-
The rebellious tribesmen treated to the falands surrounded
Cost Only £20.
The defendants worn allowed bail by signingia personal bond of $50 each, Mr. Wadenon indicating that there was no chance of their getting away.
THE LUCKY NUMBERS AT TO-DAY'S RACES.
CHAMPIONS WINNERS.
The journey to India by air in such a machine proves to be the cheapest way of getting there, for the running costs of the machine, including petrol, of and housing, are stated not to have exceeded £20. Capt. Hinkler hopes to reach Australia in eighteen days.--Ticket No. 446,-$222.00 British Wireless,
Below are the Cash Sweep ticket numbers on to-day's Races up to the time of going to presa:--
1st Race,
Karachi, Feb. 14. Bert Hinkler, the British'airman' who is endeavouring to fly from London to Australia in eighteen days, arrived to-day, creating a record time for light aeroplanes. His average speed was eighty miles an hour-Renter.
Hinkley has reached Karachi after seven days.
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previous best, was made when the Air Minister, Sir Samuel Honre, and his wife, flew in India last! year, the Minister completing the journey to Karachi in eleven days.
Best Time Ever Made.
Later. Captain Hinkler's time from 10 Karachi, officially a less definite notion of Mr. by the vast awamps in the Shambe Croydon Asquith's personality than of that and Lake Jorr district, but the given as seven and a half days, 'The of any front-rank politician? One | Royal Air Force machines flew is the fastest ever made. reason for this is to be found deep over the district, and heavily bomb- Mr. Asquith's character. the Nuer herds, inflicting consi- Though he must, at any rate in erable losses in animals, with the his earlier years, have had ambi-result that the enemy speedily Lion, he is entirely devoid even of began to surrender in increasing the innocent egoism which usually numbers.
The fastest time from Europe Meanwhile, parties of young to India, was accomplished by the goes with the ambitious tempera-1
to break Dutch pilot, Koppens, who flew ment. He never dramatisca him- men, who attempted self. His attitude towards his through the cordou formed by the from Amsterdam to Karachi In work, and, indeed, towards the British troops in dare-devil at- October in a
Fokker machine,, whole of life is disinterested in tacks, suffered heavy casualties.
driven by British engines.--| the philosophie us well as thefrom the British rifle-fire and Mills
Reuter. popular sense of the word. As was once said of him by an in- timate-"he is unlike everyone else; he is only interested in what he is doing, never in how he is
Orders have been given for the doing it. As a consequence he troops to withdraw, with the 6x- Is never troubled by the pique and ception of one company which will vanity and self-consciousness remain at Lake Jorr for the pre- which are the besetting weak-sent.-Reuter,
"A very nesses of the publie man. negative character, Asquith's," snid a critic to a friend. "Yes," was the reply,"very negative-no vanity and no self-seeking."
All this suggests, perhaps, an austero "rationalist" free from the weaknesses of lesser men, but de.
bombs.
All active hostility has now! been broken down, and the acro planes have already returned to
Khartoum.
HONGKONG CLUB SWEEP.
DRAW.
*
The draw for the Hongkong on the Champions, Club sweep which took place this morning, re- sulted as follows:
ficient also in genial human feel- RESULT OF THE CHAMPIONS ing. Nothing could be further from the truth. A very brief acquaintance with him will estab lish the truth of Lord Rosebery's saying that his gifts of heart are , no less remarkable than his gifts of head. To have tried to serve him, however, inadequately,, la enough to secure a champion and a friend of inexhaustible loyalty.
Intellectual Zest.
And though he is a remorseless critic of intellectual pretentious- ness, no man could be more appre- clative of human affection and "aimple truth mia-called simplici- ty" Mr. Ramsay MacDonald Baid well the other day that one mark of an educated man was that he could be happy when alone. Of that happiness Mr. Asquith has complete command. His love of ancfent literature, de well known.. The eloquent words in his Recto- rint addreas at Glasgow upon what the classics can mean to the man who has studied them "as student should, and as only a student can," represent, we may be sure, no more than his own
A
Meanwhile, 66, T. B. Pearce. Bakers Bay, 20, W.. F. Simmons, Chesapeake Bay, 89, Capt. G. W.
Halllfax, R.N.
O'Moon, 163, 3. C. Clark. Peck, 230, C. E. L. Grist. Elliot Bay, 20, K. Ewart. Festivo Eve, 147, R. K. Valentine, Little Sit Tang, 173, R. Sutherland, Young Pretender, 234, Capt. G. W.
Hallifax, R.N.
Sitting Bull, 128, C. H. Brangwin." Dumfries, 114, Allan Kelth. Warlordship, 17, M. M. Mázs, Bengal, 187, M. O; Clark. Pickie, 109, R. J. Brown. **San Diego, 12, E. B. Kelloy,
Tangle, 247, J. D. Kinnaird. Heir Apparent, 285, T. P. O'Connor. San Francisco, 33, T. Dallin and
C. C. Stark.
Chatto, 19, G. Engel.
The Field, 20, E. J. H. Mitchell,
The Hague, Feb, 14.
COTTON SPINNING
CRISIS.
OPERATIVES GIVEN _MONTH'S NOTICE.
London, Feb. 14. The General Committee of the Federation of Master Cotton Spin- ners Associations has received a report from the sub-committee which is negotiating with the Cot- ton Spinners Manufacturers' As |sociation with regard to wages and
hours."
Ticket No. 87.-$777.00
Ticket No. 181-111.00 350 Tickets:12, 248, 846, 316,"
2nd Race. Ticket No. 515-31669.40. Ticket No, 251-$448.40- Ticket No 8224.20. $50 Tickela:-210.
3rd Race." Ticket No. 186-$1,705,20 Ticket No. 16-$187.20 Ticket No. 657,--$243.60
quarters and arrested and gagged the conspirators as each came up.
Preparations on a large scale for
His brother, H. M. Abrahams, a rising on the lines of that in Canton were found at the head. the famous sprint athlete, has e quarters, and there was some pressed the opinion that the ren! anxiety among the authorities dur danger in the strenuous life of ing Friday, especially as there wore athletic competition is the phycho- an unusual number of people in logical effect.
Bakers Bay's Victory. The Ladies' Purse brought out capital ponies, and a
seven
Mr. Dunbar's Bakers Bay, In all, some thirty-four arrests were years of competition of one kind to made.
and another, you are in the public | (Mr. Maitland up), who got home The leader of the proposed rising eye, and always wondering two lengths in front of San Fran- escoped, but his second was among whether you are going to beat the cisco (Mr. Charles up), with whore Warrington (Mr. Usher riding) those captured. The rising was to other fellow. That is have been signalised by extensive strain comes in."-British Wire-third three lengths away. fires on the first day, with looting less. and attack on the yamens, to be followed by the setting up of a Soviet.
Twenty Executions.
This afternoon, twenty of those arrested, including two women, were executed. Unusual precau tions were taken to prevent diatur- 75, bance and traffle was held up at the
!
LINDBERGH'S RISKY
FLIGHTS.
APPEAL NOT TO ENDANGER LIFE.
St. Louis, Feb. 14.
At the tifin interval, the usual ceremony of presenting the Ladies' Purse took place in the grand- stand, the purse being handed to the winning jockey by Miss Luard, who was subsequently escorted to In by Mr. Maitland.
The Champlone.
As the result of drizzle during the early part of the afternoon, the
Bureau of Public Safety while the
Col. Lindbergh claims that his course was rendered slightly hea prisoners were taken in chains to flight has demonstrated the vier by the time the eighth race, the execution ground. They pre-feasibility of air mail routes the Champions Stakes, was run. sented an exhausted appearance, throughout the fifteen countries he. There were Ave starters for this. and one man had to be taken in a visited.
the main event of the day. Mrs. rickshaw.
His safe arrival hera has re-Dunbar did not start the Darby Torture is said to have been used loved widespread anxiety, owing winner against her husband's to elicit information. The prison to fog and rain during the Inst nominations, Elliott Bay and ers were all young, between the stages.
Chesapeake Bay, while Mr. Dynas
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ages of eighteen and twenty-five, Mr. Davis, Secretary of War, ty rolled en Heir Apparent, $50 Tickets: 601, 107, 193, 679. and they went to execution with was applauded, when, speaking at who redeemed his reputation by a ashep faces but shouting the ery Jefferson, Missouri, ho decleared fine 2 min. 37 socs, over a mile and "Long Live the Communist Party that he would implore Col. Linda quarter yesterday.
There is no word of a concerted bargh to give up risking his life in Elliott Bay: won in record me altack by the military against the the air, because his death would be coming in many lengths ahead of Red force which raided the Phou- an irreparable loss to the country Pickle. At the start Chesapeake $50 Tickets-368, 711, 698, 299, leng district recently; the soldiers and to the cause of aviation, 455, 619, 362, 184, 56.
5th Race.
4th Races. Ticket No. 770.-$1,800.80
Ticket No. 326.-$642.80
Ticket No. 769.-$271.40
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Ticket No. 561.-$4,025.00 Ticket No. 1110, $1,150.00 Ticket No. 151-$575.00 $50 Ticket:-1101.
6th Race, Ticket No. 201.-$3,675.00 Ticket. No. 1337.---$1,050.00 Ticket No. 187.-8525.00 $50 Tickets:-1319, 687, 938.
7th Race..
Ticket No. 698.--$4,725.00
Ticket.No. 763.-$1,350.00 Ticket No. 656.-$675.00
Bay, set the pace and covered the are stationed at Phou-leng city, with The New York Times understands first quarter in 27 seconds. He soms in Kit-yang. Apparently the that the trustees of the Woodrow was followed many lengths behind "Red" forca is mobile and in con- Wilson Foundation are consider by Heir. Apparent and Elliott Bay, stant communication with Hal-ing conferring the Wilson Penco Pickle bringing up in the rear. Luk Rung, so that it would not be Award ou Col. Lindbergh because Chesapeake Bay pulled up after easy for any but a well-led and his air voyages have all been "good-three-quarters of a mile and his determined body of troops to deal will" flights-Reuter'a American stable companion took the lead with it.
7 Service.
Later roporta regarding the village of Kho-leng are to the effect it was not completely takon by the "Reds" and the dead mum- bered some six hundred.
Printers Holidays.
BRITISH ECONOMIC
PROBLEMS.
about 100 yards from the Rock. Elliott Bay was never headed and
headed won as he liked.
The record beaten by Elliott Bay 'was held by Triumphant Dahlia, the late Sir Paul Chator's pony, which won the race in 1916, The Grst half-mile to-day was.complet ed in 56.1/5th seca, also a record. 8-The Champlon Stakez Sweepstake of $50 cach for ly the chief point of disagreement The House of Commons has starters with $3,000 added for was the number of holidays to be agreed to the Address in Reply to Winner. Second $1,000. Third observed. The Mayor was asked the Speech from the Throne, and
AMENDMENT.
The Printers' Union struck for COMMONS REJECTS LIBERAL $50 Tickets: 471, 308, 93, 1029, one day as the result of the con 566, 1213, 1675, 466, 1108.
celling of last year's agreement by 8th Race.
the Press Association. Apparent
Ticket No. 7217.-886,696.10 Ticket No. 1809. $10,484.60 Ticket No. 8263.- $5,242.30 Unplaced starters, $2,012.00 each: Nos: 3770/änd 3865.
9th Race.
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London, Feb. 14.
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$600. For China Ponies, Winners br the Association to arrange the rejected by 310 votes to 140.
alter, and this point was left Liberal amendment demanding fur- at this Meeting only. Wolght for over, for decision by Canton other measures to develop national inches as per scale. Pontos to be the papers came out on Sunday, resources, deal with unemployment ridden by Jockeys who have won at least 5 Official flat Races In Hong but as Monday is the weekly holl- and solve the slum problem:
day and coincided with one of tho Mr. Lloyd George suggested the Kong or China, or Jockeys ap many special holidays, they are establishment of an Economic proved by the Stewards. One not publishing either on that day General Staff. He expressed the Mile and a Quarter. or on Tuesday.
opinion that if certain things were Mr. L. Dunbar's Elliott Bay
(Mr. Maitland), In addition to the weekly Mon-done, Britain would not only re- day holiday, ten days at Chineau cover her old position, but would Mr. Hynes and Mr. Mackie's New Year, one
or two at the transcend anything before achieved. Western New Year, and one day
Ticket No: 622-$4,585.00 Ticket No. 34-$1,310.00 Ticket No. 304,-$656.00 $50 Tickets: 1224, 1339, 1436, 297, 1014, 661, 1148, 986, 1278.
10th Raco. Ticket No. 24~$3,799.00 Ticket No. 485 $1,085,60 Ticket No. 1312-3542.80 $50 Tickets: 263, 975, 454, 794 each at some Ave other Chinese
No official statement has been la sued, but it is understood that all. the Associations in the Federation, 3, 617. except the Bolton spinners, hand- 1ing Egyptian cotton, have decided to tender to the operativen a month's notice demanding an altera- tion in wages and hours agreement in the American yarn section. Reuter.
AMERICAN SHIPPING
SCHEME.
NEW CARGO BOAT LINE APPROVED.
The
Feb. 14:
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11th Race. Ticket No. 1309.--$3,561.60 Ticket No. 940-$1,017.00 Ticket No. 816-$502.80. $50 Tickets-1220, 177, 1163, 1450, 1042, 1202, 689, 657, 952, 1085, 860, 920, 216, 850, 371, 311.
-Renter.
CHARGED.
Pickle (Mr. Heard) 2 Mr. Evo's Bengal
(Mr. Pote Hunt) 3: Mr. Dynasty's Heir Apparent
(Mr. Haimovitch) 0
Mr. L. Dunbar's Chesapeake
Bay (Mr. Charles)... 0.
regular festivals, the newspaper. managers have agreed to sixteen MEXICAN POLITICIAN special holidays, during the year. These include the Day of Humille- tlon In connexion with Japan's twenty-one demands, and the an
versaries of the Shamcon and ACQUITTED BY US. FEDERAL secs. The time beat the previous
COURT...
Won by many lengtha; two lengths
Time 2 mins. 82.4/6th
Shanghai incidents, It is Inter
record, which was 2 min. 38.2/5th esting to note the absence, of
seca,
- 87.80 | student. commemorative days In
Pari-Mutuel Winner, Los Angeles, Feb. 14. this list as compared with two Senhor Adolfo de la Huerta, the 1st. $6.10; 2nd. $10.60.~ PICKPOCKET CAUGHT. years ago. The only one which is ex-Provisional President of Mexico 1The Foochow Cap-Winner due to the student movement is who with four co-defendants, was the Day of Humiliation. Our charged in the Federal Court with $600. Second $200. Third $100. Own Correspondent,
conspiracy to violate the neutrality For China Ponies. Weight for laws, has been acquittedReuters luches as per scale. Ponies that American Service,
BETRAYED BY FALLING COINS. Sentence of six months' hard labour and 15 strokes of the birch Washington, chipping was imposed by Mr. W. Schofield, the at the Kowloon Magistracy this Board hag approved of establishment of a line of cargo morning, on a Chinese who was boats to ply between New York, charged with attempting to pick Philadelphia and other Atlantic the pocket of a woman passenger
on the Yaumat! Forry, ports to Brazil,
The evidence showed that the defendant cut a hole in the com- sound of falling coins, the woman turned round and saw the defen- dant whom she instantly seized and had arrested:
The Upper Chamber, by 21 votes The Columbian Steamship Line
experience. But his intellectual to 14, has passed the Bill to permit of New York, will operate the new plainant's pocket, but, on the zest excludes no branch of history the exploitation of the petrol-bear-line. Reuter's American Service or biography, and embraces every Ing districts in the Bay of Aroc, kind of good literature, as well as also of Boengoe Island, by the "much to which a eterner critic Dutch East Indies Petroleum Com-
might deny that epithet.
pany-Reuter,
There was a clean bill of health in the Colony yesterday,
According to a police report, motor car. No. 344, driven by Mrs.
have run at any previous Mecting In Hongkong, Macao of China and have won a rice and Griffins of this Meeting allowed 6 lb. Büb-?
W. E. L. Shenton on the Shaukiwan FEWER UNEMPLOYED. acription Griffins of this Meeting
Road, near the Government Quarry last evening, suddenly burst into flames
allowed 10 lb. (Jockey allowance.) RETURNS SHOW ENCOURAG-. Allowances accumulative. En- Fortunately, Police Sergeant
trance $10. Two Miles, ING DECLINE. May was in the vicinity and he
Messrs, Stanton & Reidy's San promptly secured a fire extinguisher
London, Feb. 14,
Diego (Mr. Stanton) 1 from the quarry, with which he Unemployment returns continue Mr. Leo Chouk-auen's U Un II succeeded in putting out the blaze, to show a decline. The number of
(Mr. Wong) The damage done to the car was workless on February 6th, was Mr. B. M. Austin's Brigade Call not very heavy. Mrs. Shenton, 1,162,000 being 6,700 less than the who is at present living at Shel 0,week previous, and loss than a year was on her way home at the time. ago,British Wireless,
(Mr Maitland) (Continued on Page 12.)
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