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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

U. S. PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN."

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and Improvement of the 3nland water ways, as means of helping the farm situation.'

MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1928.

MANILA AVIATION

CRASH.

BOMBING PLANE WRECKED

IN FORCED LANDING.

He specifically voiced oppoal- SERGEANT INJURED. tlons to modification of the Vol- stead, Act and he praised the eighteenth amendment.

Senator Curtis spoke from a temporary stand erected on the aleps of the Kansas state house. Those who attended the ceremony included national party leaders and representatives from most

KELLOGG TREATY CEREMONY.

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has been

A series of functions arranged for tite following day- British Wireless,

U.S. and the League.

Paris, Aug. 26. Replying to questions by Press representatives. as regards the chances of the American Senate ratifying the Pact to be signed.to- morrow, Mr.. Kellogg declared that that was purely a matter for the U. S. Senate to decide,

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Mr. Kellogg added that the American position regarding the League of Nations was unchanged. The U.S.A. hasn't sufficiently in portant interests involved in the questions discussed at Geneva to become a member of the League.

The American ideal, he said, is to negotiate directly with other nations without passing through an international organiam.

Manila, Aug. 24. Sergeant E Schmolka, of Camp He urged closer relations be- Nichols, was seriously injured tween labour and capital.

yesterday when the Martin bomb Dwelling at length on Governing plane of which he was a pas ment finances, he advocated a re-senger, made a forced landing in duction in the public debt, taxes a rice field about one mile north of Calumpit, Bulacan. The plane and governmental expenses,

He said that the "encourage-was piloted by First. Lieutenant Orville A. Anderson. Private ment of women in government" is

Robert Baker also. WIB A praiseworthy.

passenger. Lieut. Anderson and Private Baker were uninjured.

'Sergeant Schmolka was removed to the Sternberg Hospital yester- been afternoon, day

having brought over from Calumpit in an ambulance. Although conscious, Sergeant Schmolka could not talk coherently. He was bleeding from the ears and nose and Army doctors ordered x-rays taken to Fifty Communists were arrested determine if the man suffered a to-day for distributing pamphlets fractured skull.

for posting propaganda They will be charged The Marlin bomber on landing. placards..

its back, and with ultering documents calculat turned over

Sergeant Schnolka ed to incite the military to 'dis- caught fire. was thrown clear of the wreck, it obedience and also with posting being thought that he previously bills without authority.--Reuter. had freed himself from his safety belt. The other two men, Lieut. Baker, Anderson and Private. extricated themselves from the wreck without injury,

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FRENCH MINISTER." OF WAR.

CHANGE OF TITLE BEING CONSIDERED.

and

Communists Active.

FURTHER “SUI TAI”. OUTBREAKS.

(Continued from Page 1.j. overnight stay at the up-river

The Martin bomber left Camp Nichols field yesterday morning He advocated public ownership for Tarlac.. While dying at an of water power, and urged larger elevation of about 2,500 feet, the appropriations for food relief, motors suddenly developed trouble stating that the present appropria-and Lieut. Anderson was forced port.

to pick a landing field. The only tigas, are inadequate.

The Wing Lok Street Wharf, He favoured collective bargain- available spot was a rice field, and although badly burnt in places, is ing, and promised to give inune-so the plane was headed for that. considered safe for traffic, but re- diate attention to unemployment The rice feld had been recent-pairs are to be taken in hand at and to remedy the abuse of they flooded and When the plane bit once. The electrical connexions strike injunction.

the earth, it awerved, hit a dyke were completed this morning. and turned over.

Favours Women Equality. He said that he would seek the improvement. of the inland water- ways,

He advocated, true equality for women in business, government, polities and the professione.

He said that he would seek to remove the red tape for the way

veterans.

TIENTSIN SHOOTING

AFFRAY.

AMERICAN AND WIFE INJURED,

Tientsin, Aug. 20.

att

A shooting affray occured early He hit the Republican claim of this morning outside the Kiersling Badr Restaurant in the prosperity, tax reductions, economy and and employment. He promised former German Concession. "real economy" by reorganizing.

It appears that two French

with quarrelled and consolidating governmental soldiers

American resident, who resented activites.

dle accused the Republicans of certain alleged behaviour on the "widespread dishonesty that part of the two men towards his honey-combed its administration." wife.

He flayed utility corporation propaganda.

The story goes that upon leav ing the restaurant the American He said that he would conduct was stabbed in the head and the a constructive campaign and de-wife shot in the leg. The French- clared that his nomination was men are said then to have made of towards the British Concession, NOL bought with pledges

where they are alleged to have promises.

fired at a pursuing Sikh constable. One of the soldiers was arrest- ed. The other was later taken into

information Custody un

BRIEF BATTLE IN CHEFOO.

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or

Tau Yen-kai, Chairman of The Kuomintang Council, General Ho Yin-ching, Chief of the new War Office.

It is stated that Mr. Tan Yen- kai's visit to Chiang Kai-shek ini Shanghai is connected with these appointments.

Found with Opium,

ΟΠ

Whilst working on board the s.8. Sui Tai at Kivloon Docks Saturday, the head fireman of the. vessel was seen to pick up a tin containing a small quantity of opium which, it is alleged, he at- tempted to retain. He was placed

under arrest.

The case was mentioned at the

Kowloon Magistracy this morning when, on the non-appearance of the defendant, his bail of $60 was estreated.

His Worship remarked that, ac- cording to the value of the oplùm, if the defendant had answered the charge, he would only have lost $16,

Chief Preventive Officer Clarke prosecuted.

NO MOTOR LICENCE.

DRIVER COLLIDES WITH LAMP STANDARD,

said to have. been given by the

A charge of driving a motor car former. They were both handed without an appropriate licence was over to the French military au hrought against a Chinese student, thorities shortly afterwards.-residing at Kowloon Tong, before Reuter,

MUST BOB HAIR.

PEKING'S ORDER TO YOUNG WOMEN.

Peking, Aug. 21. Feng's New Headquarters.

The Municipal Bureau of Public Safety decreed to-day that Peking Shanghai, Aug, 25. Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, Com-women under the age of 30 muat mander-in-chief of Kuominchun, hob their hair or pay a degeneracy has arrived at suchowfu which,

The order, effective Sept. 1, is it is believed, will be his headquar-meant to discourage the old Man- ters for the time being-Reuter, chu style of hair dressing.

A Western Expedition.

tax.

It is directly opposite to the ruling of General Chu Yu-pu,

Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang arrived Military Governor under the

Mr. W. Schofleld at the Kowlooon Magistracy this morning.

According to Inspector Phillips, a public motor-ear had been taken to the defendant's place, but on arrival it was found to be too Was amall and a bigger vehicle requested. Whilst the driver was telephoning for another ear, the defendant drove the smaller one and collided with a lamp standard in Montague Ede Roud, causing damage to both the car and the standard.

A fine of $10 was imposed.

TO STUDY QUAKES.

at Kaifeng last evening. It is re- former regime, who prohibited NOTED AUTHORITY TO VISIT ported that he has ordered Han Fu-bohoed hair.

chu, who became notorious in con- Mayer Ho Chi-kung has ordered nexion with the Pao Yu-lin Affair, men wearing queues to pay a to send his troops to Hanan for a western expedition.

It is unofficially reported that Fan Chung-haul and Wu Hsin-tien have captured Hanchung and Fengslang In Western Shena! and are attempt! ing to link up with the Szechuanese General Liu Tseng-hao.-Router.

Peking Labour Unions,

Peking, Aug. 26.

The authorities here have been recently closing up the Labour Unions, but the C. E. C. has now of the Great War, M. Painleve the wired from wanking instructing Minister af War, said that he is Marshal Yen Hei-shan not to

situation of the title of Minister of Router. War by that of Minister of the Army-Indopacifi.

Preaty, Revision.

heavy monthly tax and women must remove the binding from their feet or pay a periodical fine."

This was dons to eliminate feudalistic habits.

CHAPLIN DIVORCE.

MANILA,

Washington, Aug. 19,

The Rev. William G. Repelti, a widely known authority on earth- qunkers, will leave for Manila in September to study seismology and magnetism at the seismological observatory there."

He has been doing special work for the Carnegie Magnetic Obser- vatory, and for the Coast Geodetic Surrey in Washington. He was

University Observatoy,

PETITION TO MAKE DECRÉE formerly director of the Fordham

FINAL

Los Angeles, Aug, 21. Lila Grey Chaplin, erstwhile

COLONIAL CHANGES.

NEW CHIEF SECRETARY IN

TANGANYIKA.

considering a measure for the sub-close them, but to allow these that wife of Charlie Chaplin, the film have been dissolved to re-open-comedian, will petition the Court to make her interlocutory deerde of divorce final to-morrow, and with it the judgment of the Court Shanghai, Aug. 20.

awarding hor $750,000. Chaplin The Kuo Min News Agency has made it known that he will not

London, Aug, 26. states that the Japanese Govern- oppouc,

Consequent upon the appoint- ment is despatching a

special

Coincidentally, Mr. Chaplin ment of Mr. John Scott as Colonial envoy to Nanking to negotiate for aald that she had discussed mar- Secretary of the Straits Settle. the settlement of the Nanking In-riage with toy D'Arcy, the film inonts, Mr. Douglas James Jardine, eident, and also to negotiate for actor, but reached no decision, the Deputy Chief Secretary of treaty revision between China and since D'Arcy must wait six months Tanganyika Territory, will be Japan. The identity of the envoy before his interlocutory decree come Chief Secretary.-British to be chosen has not yet been de-

can he made final.

Wheless. elded--Nouter.

Paris, Aug. 14. Speaking at Bourg-en-Bresse, on

In England, Wales and Ireland the occasion of the Conference held last month the N.S.P.C.C. dealt by Wounded and Disabled Veterans with 8,776 children.

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