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Hongkong Telegraph.

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NO. 22,432

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日九十月二

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BIKOLE COPT 10 CENES

AMAZING SCENES LABOUR GAINS IN AERIAL TRAFFIC IN NEW YORK STOCKS PIRACY FEARED ON

AT GENEVA.

PRESIDENT'S ERRORS BEGIN DISORDER.

SIR AUSTEN SPEAKS SHARPLY ON BALKAN QUARREL,

RUMANIAN OBJECTION.

Geneva, Mar. 9.

The Balkans dispute, which has defted solution for over five years, and which Sir Auston Chamber- Jain described to-day as a fester-

LONDON,

FAR EAST.

COUNTY COUNCIL ELECTION RESULTS.

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BIG BRITISH SCHEMES

OUTLINED.

MacDONALD FAMILY.

London, Mar. 9.

The final state of the parties as the result of the London County Council elections is as follows:

Municipal Reformers Labour

84 34.

Liberals

The gains and losses were:

'Gains Losses Municipal Reformera... 3 10 Labour

..13 Liberals

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G 4

The Liberals fought, under their ing sore on the face of Europe,

between party title instead of the old de- polsoning relations Rumania and Hungary, and menac-[signation of Progressives, ing the pance of the world, con- Twenty-four women members tinues to perplex the peace-makers were elected, as compared with of the Council of the League of nineteen in the old Council.

Mr. Malcolm MacDonald and Miss Ishbel MacDonald, respec.

Nations.

and now in Rumanian, who exorcis.

The quarrel concerns Transyltively the son and daughter of Mr. vania, where the land owners, Ramsay MacDonald, obtained seats formerly in Hungarian territory in the London County Council, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald retaining the ed their opilon for Hungarian Labour acat for Limehouse, while nationality, claim fuller compensa-Miss Ishbel MacDonald headed the tion for the appropriation of their poll for South Poplar, estates than the new Rumanian The results show that the Jand laws allow.

Labourites and Liberals have Speeches by M. Titulesco, made little headway towards the Rumania, and Count Appony, reduction of the majority held by Hungary, yesterday revealed that the Municipal Reformers since the parties are in no manner 1007.-Reuter. nearer a settlement."

League's Impotence,

Sir Austen Chamberlain address- ing, the Council bo-day emphasised the impotence of the League to impose a solution unless both parties were agreed. He suggest, ed that the Council nominate two neutrale to sit with the mixed arbitral tribunal to consider the Hungarian claims.

CAVELL FILM SHOWN IN BRUSSELS.

APPLAUSE AT END LASTS FIVE MINUTES.

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Brussels, Mar. 9.

M. Briand and other delegates The Nurse Cavell war film, over warmly supported the British dele-which, there has been much con- gates proposal and appealed to troversy in Great Britain, ending Rumanin and Hungary to accept | in the refusal of permission for ex- "the loyal sincere and logical prohibition, was shown in the largest posal"

cinema in Brussels to-day before an attendance of 2,500 people.

Sir Austen sponking with omation, expressed himself as pro- foundly happy and grateful at the unanimous approval.

Rumania's Condition, The Council re-assembled, in the afternoon and M. Titulesco

The audience included several members of the Belgian Cabinet.

The film was followed with

The applause at the end Insted

stated that he would accept Sir for fully five minutes, but there Austen Chamberlain's proposal on was no demonstration during the a condition which he proceeded to showing of the film-Rexler. explain in a speech insting an hour.

Sir Auston Chamberlain replied that it would be an insult to at- tempi to attach conditions to new Judges and declared emphatically "The Council speak with one voice and one mind once again and 1 appeal to the representative of Rumania and his Government to think once or twice before they reject the recommendation of

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SENSATION.

WILD SCENES & HUGE SHARE TURNOVER.

FRENZIED BROKERS.

New York, Mar. 9,

A total day's sale, of 3,700,000 shares, the second largest turn- over In the history of the New York Stock Exchange, was made to-day na the result of a wild out- burst of speculation on the Stock Market

WEST RIVER.

CHINESE STEAMER'S

PLIGHT.

FOUND NEAR TAIMING SHA MINUS CREW.

GUNBOAT ON SCENE.

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Bulls and

Happy Valley.

Inners

From the Offfee Butts.

A wealthy Shanghai motorist The O.B.I. this week goes, with- allows his chauffeur $20 a month out question, to the Daily Preas for to pay for small accidents referring to a well-known dancing Evidently petty crash accounts. teacher as "Mish Violent Capell.”

OD Evidently theso Tyroleso agitators are to be told in futuro to go to the Duco.

0.0 Lots of husbands have a job to keep their wives in cheque.

A Shanghai contemporary advertiaca Beveral Baxaphone A new ship arriving in harbour players who are "at liberty." We last week, named the Oder, was pass on the tip to the Hongkong described "unknown." It police.

should appropriately have nacher- ed off Wanchaf.

INDIA THE GATEWAY.

A report of a piracy on the West There was frenzied trading in River, as yet not confirmed, was London, Mar. 9.

A doctor says that the thymus The vital importance of India in General Motors common stock received on the arrival of the s.s, gland causes crime in childron. MacWhirter in of the opinion the future development of air which advanced over 30 a.share to Taiming from Wuchow early this MacWhirter says, howover, that that some folk must surely come transport, was stressed by Lleat a now high record of $157. This morning, the vessel involved being this gland can be worn down a from a long line of snakes. Colonel I. A. E. Edwards, the Chief started the movement with the the Chinese steamer Hol Cheong, lot, by application of the back of Technical Adviser to the Depart-result that scores of issues ad- plying between Hongkong and Wu: a hair brush."

News Item: Giving the name, ment of Civil Aviation at the Alr vanced from $3 to $17 per sburo; chow..

of Slik Tung, a Kowloon cooper Ministry, in the course of an Thirty stocks rose to new high The master of the Taiming, Cap- According to a Home paper, all collapsed while removing blotting tain Spinks, states that at p.m. the residents living in one street paper from a compradore's study. address to the Royal Society of levels for the year. Arts to-day.

Pandemonium reigned on the yesterday she met with the stern-in Aberdeen are named Muir. He hit the wrong man repeatedly He dwelt ut considerable length floor of the Stock Exchange as per-wheeler Dilly, near Kongmoon, and, The muir we are together! with a bicycle. It was subso- on the proposed plans and routes,spiring brokers struggled furiously that the a.. Hoi Cheong had been In passing, that vessel reported

quently discovered that he was and allowed gigantic nature of the plans pre-orders from all parts of the coun- pirated at a spot near Taiming

conclusively the to carry out the deluge of buying

development of air routes. posed by Great Britain in the try..

Indin's Suitable Climate. At the outset, he pointed out that India's climate was most suitable for flying, especially when long journeys had to be made by night.

In the event of an amicable settlement with Parsin the route to India would in all probability run via the Persian Gulf to

Karachi, while further route to feed India would be designed via Moscow, Teheran and Bushire,

To Hongkong.

A throng of shrieking hoarse- voiced brokers fought and struggled ike a crowd of women at the open- ing of the day's sales around the General Motors post where 300,000 shares in their common stock changed hands in four hours.

The tape-machines were unable to keep pace with the quotations, this adding wide-spread confusion to the dealings.

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Kidnapped by Pirates?

☐ ☐ Despite the fact that he had red engaged in securing exhibits for

was well within the white lines,

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hair, had his fingers crossed and the "China". Exhibition

a local resident was nearly knock- It certainly looks as if to- ed down by a car at the Post morrow's event is going to be a Office corner yesterday.

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The two-

On approaching the spot indicat cd, the Taiming sighted the Hol Cheong anchored close in to the north bank of the river, but there senter owner in was no sign of life on board, the now king of ship having been apparently de- the road," says serted by the crew.

Whother they had been taken

A motoring away by the pirates was not ascerto run over us! writer. Long The strength of the market is attainable. short interests in the more specula ese gunboat Kong Tai was sighted, tributed to the squeezing of large Further down the river, the Chin-

O D tive stocks and also to public en- and Captain Spink passed on the who climbed & thusiasm.Renter's American Ser-Information; the warship pracced- Welsh mountain

ing to the scene to investigate. On recently

and' the arrival of the Taiming in Hong- had their faces kong the matter was reported to frozen, should the Harbour Master.

do well in a poker school.

vice.

COTTON INDUSTRY

CRISIS.

From India, Lieut. Col. Edwards went on to deal with an extension to the Far East, mentioning that the route taken would probably run from Calcutta to Rangoon, Rangoon to Singapore, and thence to Australia via the Dutch East Indies, while if plans materialise NO PRECIPITATE ACTION TO there will probably be a second

FOLLOW RUPTURE. line from Calcutta to Mandalay which will link up with Hanoi and Hongkong.

Canton and Shanghai.

When the service is established

Report of Firing.

The students

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company

Chinese members of the crew of A life Insur- the Taming assert that four or five ance men were noticed on the bank in anys £40 is too the vicinity of the Ifol Cheong, and much that after the gunboat, Kong Tai

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"Why this zed dirt

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you lost anything?"

Well,

"On the contrary.” "How on the contrary!"

"I have just had-tripleta!”

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prohibitionist rálder

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Music is like medicine, says & Homo critic. Some of it is rather hard to swallow.

In view of

the approach.

ing bathing scason Kowloon girls are already posing before ward- robe mirrors with one hand on the hip.

The great question in America at present is, who can put the sand

had

In bration of the Feast of Excited

The

had proceeded up river, the sound funeral. of firing was heard, but this is maybe for some ONE MILL BACKSLIDES. not supported by the statements of funerals.

on Sandino? the master.

□□ The Hol Cheong is a wooden London, Mar, 0.

"Saud Favours Sword" would Taipo Urban Council keen attention as many were pre- between Calcutta and Hongkong, Lancashire couton discussions is seamen, 10 engine room staff, 15 ing for this Irak quarrel.

The present situation in the vessel of 293 tons, carrying seven seem to be an appropriate, head- donated a sum of $3.35 to the Kal sent who are conversant with the it could probably be extended to a little undecided, though it is compradore's staff and 18 cargo

Fongs of the district as a contri- bution towards the annual cele- Cavell affair.

Canton and Shanghai and there felt that no precipitate action is coolies. She sailed from Hong- A join up with a Japanese service, likely as regards the breakdown kong for Wuchow with a cargo of linols got 14 years for killing Insects. Otherwise, crime in the

The speaker stated that it was oven possible that a route would of the joint conference between 400 tons, mostly rice, on Thurs-a man. A Michigan man get life district is normal.

day. She is owned and operated for having a pint of gin, be established from Calcutta via the operatives and the employers.

Further action has been left to under the Chinese flag by the world is getting better and bett r,

A headline we never expect to Bramaputra to the Yangtae and the wagos Committee, but it is re- Chuon Yick Company, of Queen's day by day.

use: "Curious Incident at Public Peking.

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Function; Well-known Member The route entering India meant garded as significant in some quar-Street, and runs in cargo only,

After the lecture

"The of Council Refuses to be Photo- that Karachi would clearly carry

ters that the Aqueduct Mill Com- Opium Smuggling Charge, the bulk of the trame between weekly and has resigned from the vick Company this morning, a to an address on "The Lack of

pany has reverted to 551⁄2 hours

Principles of Greek Balance,"

graphed.". On enquiry from the Chuen house wives are looking forward

☐ ☐ Europe and the Far East, and Calcutta would thus assume an

Federation.

Miss Royden, the evangelist, importance as an aerial gateway the American Section of the in sent master of the vessel was not

The resolution for a ballot in Telegraph representative was in- Principle of Chinese Scales."

says. she finds America to be.. formed that the name of the pre- in the Far East second only to the

Santiago, Chile, has declared "hungering for things of the

We had an dustry regarding organised short-

idea it big air junction which must even-time has been rescinded, a meat-known, as he is a substitute for war on useless noise.

Somebody spirit."

the was thirat. tually be established in Syria or

D Palestine once a line has beening in Manchester of the Federa-Chan Kai-ylu, the regular master, must have been reading

The boylsh figure must go,'anys established between Catre and tion of Master Cottonspinners As- who is in Hongkong in connexion cinenia subtitles out loud there,

with a charge of opium amuggling, too. South Africa.

sociations expressing a doubt that

a Paris fashion writer. Whatever ឯ ព. This is the first run of the Hol This air junction would also the ballot would afford the necesCheong since she was held up by Definition: An automobile is a the next figure de, we may depend bring traffic to India especially sary 80 per cent, in favour. large quantities of bullion. ----

Both sides are anxious to reach the authorities on the charge in four-wheeled obstruction capable that husbands will find it as high

· 0 0 a settlement without serious disrespect of which the master is to of standing for hours at a stretch as ever. Reuter.

come before the Court. pute.-Reuter.

TANTAH POLICE STATION STORMED.

EGYPTIAN DEMONSTRATORS RELEASE COMRADES.

Cairo, Mar. 9. friends and the advices of well- The situation at Tantah is quiet wishers."

to-day, though it is revealed that Count Apponyi, the Hungrian rein the course of yesterday's riot- presentative, briefly accepted the ing fourteen shops, eight of which proposal without reservations, and were owned by British subjects, Sir Austen Chamberlain ngain rose chiefly Maltese, were plundered. to his feet and criticised Rumania, Hooligans took advantage of the declaring that condition voiced by student demonstrations to create M. Titulesco was not acceptance disturbances and they joined in a Ut a refusal of the Council's restorming of the Tantah police-' commendation, and adding "I can- station, where the arrested not be responsible for the changes students, were confined and suc- suggested by M. Titulesco,"

ceeded in securing their release, Reuter.

Amazing Scenc.

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There was a surprising scene in

the Council following the refusal LEAGUE GUARANTEES

of Rumania to accept Sir Austin Chamberlain's proposal uncon- ditionally..

TOO MUCH.

DUTCH STUDENTS IN SERIOUS CASE.

PROSECUTON URGES HEAVY SENTENCES.

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MEXICAN POLITICAL

PLOT.

GERMAN SUSPECT PROVES INNOCENCE.

COMMUNIST UPRISING IN HUNAN.

SITUATION BEING' WATCHED WITH ANXIETY. ́

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in a congested street.

An advertiser is looking out for A Singapore man rescued bls a "good Scotch terrier puppy." mother-in-law from a burning One that doesn't chew shippers. house, Perhaps the smoke got preferred. -

. .'. into his eyes.

A Singapore constable who Any Austrian alleging Fascist accused a shipmaster of piling atrocities will be considered by deck cargo to the height of the Mussolini a false lire.

policeman's chin, appears to have had some neck Hankow, Mar. 9. A vessel carrying some tons of The Hague, Mar. 9: Four native students from the

Mexico City, Mar. 9. Communista have staged a sue-dynamite to North China is named

The Franco-American arbitra- Dutch East Indies, who have been

The German, so-called bomh excessful, though apparently blood the Aker. No doubt the opposition treaty may be regarded as a Mr. Urrutia, the President of

Jaughyette.. the Council, summing up, made the

ander preventive detention since pert, Max Holung, who was ardess, uprising at L Ling, in the tion militarists just ache to get remarkable statement that the

September on a charge of Inflam-rested on suspicion it connexion south of Hunan, it is authentically hold of it.

with the plot to assassinate Prest-reported. The Communiste arc parties to the dispute had agreed

Perhaps all the trouble in Egypt matory incitement of the public to the principle of, Sir Austen's

against the Government in their dent Calles and General Obregon, now in full control of the town. Lisbon, Mar. 9.

A number of General Chen is because the new generation proposal.

It is semi-officially revealed that Vernacular newspaper, have been has established his Innocence and

bcen released. Reuter's Chion's forces were ordered to have been separated from their The observation produced a long the Loan sought under the aus-released pending the decision of has

American Service.

attack the Communists, being sont outburst of laughter from the de-pices of the League of Nations did the court which will be given on

from' Changsha, but they turned March 23rd. legates and the public.

over to the Communists, making types of film plots in rapidly This feeling over certain not materialise because Portugal

The Public Prosecutor urged Subsequently it was announced would not agree to the appoint-

spreading. Several Sheikhs are that M. Titulesco had agreed on ment of a Control Agent, or to the anteness of from two to three LADY BAILEY'S FLIGHT. the position still more serious.

Extra troops are now being des-on the warpath. the urgent request of M. Briand right of the League Finance Com-yeare imprisonment.-Reuter.

patched from Changsha, but the developments are being watched in Hankow a considerable an- |xdety.—Noutér.

WHY PORTUGAL'S LOAN FAILED.

to refer the British proposal to mittee to send a Commission to hia Government and to give a reply administer the revenues assigned to-morrow, if possible.

to the service of the loan.

Portugal now resumes the free-

President's Astonishing Action.dom to raise the Loan where she

Everyone expected the President may desire-Reuter.

to adjourn the meeting until `to-

morrow (Saturday) instead of

which he proposed the adjourn-

ment of the whole qucation to the

SZECHUAN DISPUTE.

INDIAN COTTON MILL SCANDAL.

LONG-HOP TRIP TO BOUTH. AFRICA

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An earthquake has been Announced from Kamischatka. has not yet been recorded. The alphabetical re-arrangement

In view of recent correspon-

៧ . A correspondent to the local dence, the Cathedral debate cannot prças complains of a weight on his be regarded as a 8-Keep for the

Rost.. chest at night, which he cannot explain. If he is an elderly man

0.0 it may be the effect of his lobster salad days.

A woman stated in a London- court that when she found a long hair on her husband's alcove it.

bage. If, this sort of things goes hairs on, we may expect to find, certain prominent individuals dressing in

London, Mar. 19. Lady Bailey, wife of Sir Abe Bailey, the South African million HEAVY SENTENCES, ON

aire, left Croydon aerodrome, un-

President Coolidge has had a "fair gave her, a shock." It must CONSPIRATORS. V accompanied, this afternon, on a

Aight to Capetown Her plan is HANYANG COMMUNIST RAID present of pyjamas made of four have been one of those electris Calcutta, Mar. 9.

to reach her destination as quickly

REPULSED, June meeting of the Council.

Wanhsien, Mar, 9. The High Court has sentenced as possible in long hops. - A lively..argument between the It is reported that the combined' Mr. Lahiri to oight years', impri- The route will be vis Franco,

Hanyang, Mar. 9, delegates followed, some shouting Szechuanese Generals may attack sonment, and Mr. Bannerjee to six Italy, Malta, Egypt and Souden. Communists have attacked the sackcloth remarks across the table: '

MYang Son on account of the lat years' imprisonment for criminal Lady Bailey is flying. De Havil-Water Police Headquarters in an If this stretching of local

Cutleura is Titulesco was most prominent inter's attitudo regarding the dis- conspiracy to commit a breach of land Moth aeroplane, capable of attempt to seize the arms. The lawn tennis players continues, the disorder. This unprecedent tribution of revenue. Naval trust in connection with the Lakah remaining in the air ten hours attack, however, was repulsed by the they will in time be able to cover Jublics. Yet they still ch for

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