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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1928.

OPIÙM ENTRY IN BUFFER STATE IN BISHOPS AND THE

FAR EAST.

CHINA SAID TO HAVE OPENED

WAR ON SMOKERS,

PLANS AGREED UPON.

Geneva, Sept, 24. -

The Assem! ly of the League has disposed of Dame Edith Lyttleton's

NORTH CHINA.

NEUTRAL ZONE ROUND SHANHAIKWAN.

CHANG CHUNG-CHANG TO HOLD THIS AREA.

PRAYER BOOK.

DR. DAVIDSON TO PRESIDE

FOR LAST TIME.

NEW POLICY LIKELY.

London, Sept. 24.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, whose resignation will come Into to-morrow for the last time over- a meeting of the House of Blahops.

report of the proposed oplum CURIOUS COMPROMISE. effect in. November, will preside

smoking enquiry.

Damo Lyttleton, said that the en- quiry would extend to the Philip pinca, if the United States approved the recommendation. *- ..

Mr. Wang King-ki said that the new Chincao Government had enter- ed into the fight against oplum and other harmful drugs, and that after March next oplum smokers In China would be severely punish

ed.

Chinn very much regretted that the Committee had not favoured quiry to countries producing nar- cotic drugs-Reuter.

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According to Naval wireless messages it is now confirmed that hostilities between the three fac- tions in the Lanhalen-Changli area have now ceased.

It la reported that Marshal Chang Chung-chang who is now at Lanhsien, is willing to surrender. General Chu Yupu it at present at Tongshan under Nationalist protection. Quiet conditions con, tinue at Chinwangtao and in the

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The League Budget.. The Budget Committee of the League has adopted a report on the 1929 budget, asking the Assembly to pass a grant of 27,020,000 gold franca. Reuter.

FLORAL DISPLAY IN POLICE COURT.

EARLY MORNING CAPTURE

OF THEFT.

Pots of flowers decorated the Kowloon Magistracy this morning where they represented the sub- Ject of a charge of larceny which was brought against a Chinese who was arrested with the flowers in his possession in Laichikok Road carly yesterday morning.

Defendant was further charged with being in possession of a pair of pliers, an instrument fit for an unlawful purpose.

Defendant admitted the first charge, and in reply to the second, and he found the pliers outside complainant's garden.

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The meeting, at which it la ex- pected all the Bishops of the pro- vinces of Canterbury and York will attend, will give further con- sideration to the problem created by the rejection of the. Revised Prayer Book for the Church of England when the Prayer Book Measure was defeated in the House of Commons,

The discussions will continue over at least three daya and it is anticipated that some very general line of policy will emerge, pro- The Nationalist forces are with-bably in the form of provisional drawing in great numbers from resolutions, which will subsequent- the Lanhsien district to Tongshan ly be put before the Dioceses.-- and a further westerly movement is expected. It is estimated that British Wireless. repairs to the damaged bridge at! Lanhsien will take about a fort- night to complete. Repair work! has now been started from both ends.

Bishop of Cheklang..

London, Sept. 24.

On the nomination of the House of Bishops of the Church in China, the Archbishop of Canter It la reported that a compromise bury has appointed the Rev. John has been reached between the Gen-Curtle, who is a missionary in erals of the Nationalist, Fengtien Fukien, to the Bishopric of Che- and Chibli Shantung forces. It is liang, in auccession to Bishop rumoured that the area between Moloney, who has resigned. Shanhaikwan and Lanhsien will form a buffer state between the Nationalists and Fengtienites, the territory being governed by Chang Chung-chang.

The Chihli-Shantung prisoners are to be transported from Lan- halen to Tlentsin in trains lent to General Pai by the Kailan Mining Administration.

Sun Fo and Cabinet,

Shanghal, Sept. 24. In an interview with Chinese journalists in Nanking, Mr. Sun Fo expressed his belief that the Cabinet System will be adopted as

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the future constitution of the Nationalist Government, which is taken to indicate his opposition to the election of a President.

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Sub-Inspector Hoare Informed his Worship that when dofondant

The Chairman of the Adminis- was urrested in Laichikok shortly after 4 m, yesterday, enquiries trativo Council, he said, should not were made and it was discovered act concurrently as Chairman of that the flowers had been stolen any of the five new Councils, nor from a private garden in Boun- as Chairman of the Government dary Street, Shamshuipo. A wire Council.

Reuter.

YOUTHFUL DISTURBER OF THE PEACE.

SENT TO PRISON FOR

SIX WEEKS.

A young Chinese stood in the dock before Mr. W. Schoßeld at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning charged with behaving in a dis- orderly manner, the trouble arising, Inspector Fallon, who prosecuted, it was stated, over a young woman. said that complainant, the occupier of No. 64, Temple Street and the father of the girl, rushed to the Police Station yesterday afternoon' and reported that defendant was creating disturbance at the house.

Defendant was sent for, and after hearing the old man's griev- ance, Inspector Falon temporari- ly settled the dispute by instruct- ing defendant to leave the house

netting fence eight feet high sur- The popular desire of members entirely. rounded the garden and it was of the C.E.C. is that Marshal. Shortly afterwards, however, the discovered that admittance was Chiang Kai-shek should accept the man Informed the Police that de gained through a hole, which, no post of Chairman of the Nation-fendant had returned with four others. A detective was sent to doubt, had been cut by the defen-alist Government Council.

the house and defendant was ar dant with the pliers,

rested.

months on the second.

Roferring to his own position,

On the first charge, defendant was sentenced to six weeks hard Mr. Sun Fo said he does not in- The whole trouble, said Inspector labour, with a further term of two tend to accept portfolio in the Fallon, was over complainant's

Finance or Communication Minis daughter.

The defendant, who had tries, and is not likely to become chief of the Examination Court.previous conviction, was sentenced He is likely to devote his time in to six weeks' hard labour. the direcion of the re-construction the country.

EX-CHAMPION BOXER FOUND HANGED.

WON ELEVEN OF TWELVE LONDON FIGHTS.

Parls, Sept. 4.

Commenting on the construction of the tomb of his late father Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Mr. Sun Fo highly commended the architects for their wonderful work. The tomb is ex- pected to be completed in about Fred Bretonnel, a former box-iwo month's time, and it is ing champion, committed suicide estimated that the construction has this afternoon.

cost the Government something like He is said to have been very de-one and a half million dollars. pressed lately because of recent LA Chai-sum Visiting Canton, defeats and, the thought that he was losing his form.

Bretonnel had been well before the public since 1920, when he went to London and won 11 of the 12 bouts he fought.

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Nanking, Sept. 24.

Marshal Li Chal-sum and Gen- eral Li Chung-yen havo returned to Nanking from Tangshan.

Marshal L, Interviewed, an- nounced his intention of returning

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STEVE DONOGHUE'S AFFAIRS.

GUARANTEED FRIEND FOR

£10,000.

London, Sept. 24. Proof of debts totalling £4,026 were lodged in the first meeting of the creditors of Steve Donog- hue. A resolution was passed ad- judging Donoghue bankrupt, but

the application to the registrar was postponed pending the pre- sentation of a scheme for payment by Donoghue.-Reuter.

"Steve" Donoghue's assets are In 1923 he won the light-weight to Canton within the next fort stated to be £600, while there is championship of France, a title night in order to give his attention, a possibility of $10,000, for which which he lost the next year. He to a number of important financial Donoghue made himself a gunran- was fighting as a welter-weight in problems which need early solitor, being added to his debta 1927 and beat Alfred Pegazzanation." who later held the welter-weight

A message dated the 14th inst. title of France.

visit to Canton would be brief as state that the London Gazette had he intends to return to Nanking to announced that a receiving order assume office in the Central Gov- in bankruptcy had been made against the jockey, Steve Donog ernment.

To-night, Marshal Chiang Kai-hue.] shek is to give a dinner party at Government House in honour of

In the latter part of 1927 and this year he has not done so well. He returned to France 18 months ago.

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the Nationalist leaders. Marshal NEW VISITOR IN PORT.

Li Chal-eum, General Li Chung-

yen, Messrs. Wu Han-min, Li Sen, VESSEL OF HAIN STEAMSHIP

COMPANY. We Te-chon, Dr. Wang Chung-hut:

London, Sept. 24.. and the two Fengtien envoys,

.124.16 Yang Yuchain and Shing. Shih-A vessol new to the port,

34.50 flen will be present.

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Invitation to Feng.

Shanghai, Sopt. 24,

figuring in this morning's arrivals, was the .8. Tregonnell, of the Hain Steamship Company, for whom Messrs. Mackinnon, Ane- .102% Marshal Chiang Kai-shek has kenzie are acting as local agents. 107 telegraphed to Marshal Feng Yu-The Tregonnell, ex War Stag. was built in 1918 by W. Doxford 707% siang urging his return to Nan and Sons, of Sunderland, and 47.11/82

king in connexion with the coming engined by D. Rowan and Co, 1876 conferences for the reorganisation of Glasgow, to 500 N.ILP.. Sho is 515/16

26.20 of the Central Government and the vessel of 5,249 gross tona and .02.75 establishment of the five new 3,178 nett tons, with a length of

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Unemployed Officials.

Peking, Sept. 24. 5.20/32 This morning's train for Tien-

Entering on a draft of 24 foot. 6 inches, she carried a cargo of 4,500 tons for local discharge and

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She is commanded by Captain 1/10.11/10 employed officials who are being

.26.7/16 sent free to Shanghai from where S. Richards with a crew of 21 26.0/16 they must make their own way to British, five other Europeans and

12 Asiatica. -British Wireless. their southern homes-Reuter.

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