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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY

CANTON'S WAR ON TANGO MARU NOW NEW OFFICIAL FOR WANG CHING-WETS

HONGKONG.

PIRATES.

REFLOATED.

MANY DENS IN THE DELTA DESTROYED.

DAMAGED CARGO RETURNS TO AUSTRALIA.

DR. WELLINGTON SUCCEEDS LATE DR. ADDISON.

POINT OF ORDER.

PROTESTS TO NANKING ON NATIONAL CONGRESS.

NOVEMBER 16, 1928.

SINO-JAPANESE DEADLOCK..

CHINA MAY INVOKE POWERS AGAINST JAPAN.

ADMIRAL CHAN ACTIVE AGROUND FOR 16 DAYS. P.M.O. FROM THE F.M.S. NEW C.E.C. RETRACTION LOAN ISSUE TROUBLE.

Mesura

Manila, Nov. 23.

M.R.C.S.

Nanking, Nov. 25.-

In connexion with the breakdown

Canton, Nov, 24.

It is reported from Kulala Lum-

Shanghai, Nov. 21, A protest has been lodged." by As further proof that the

Warner, Barnes and pur that the post of Director of Kwangtung Provincial Govern Company have been advised by Sanitary and Medical Services in Mr. Wang Ching-wei, the leader of of the negotiations betwean China ment is taking serious measures to cablo that the Nippon Yusen longkong has been offered to and the Leftist group, against the deci. and Japan, a spokesman of the exterminate the numerous pirate Kaisha steamer Tango Maru, accepted by Dr. Arthur Robartes slon of the Kuomintang CE.C. to Chinese Foreign Office stated Blrongholds throughout the Pro- which was stranded near the har-Wellington,

(Eng.), postpone the National Delegates'

to the Chicago Tribuna cor- vince, a large number of raids banbour at Thursday Island' on No-LR.C.P. (Lon.), D.T.M. and Congress for three months.

respondent to-day that there been conducted during the pastvember 6, was refloated on Nov. and D.P.H. (Camb), who is n The protest comes in the nature is a possiblity that tro Chinese present acting Principal Medical of a surprise, since Wang Ching- Government will invoke the clause fow weeks on well-known pirate vember 21. lairs in the Went River Delta and As previously announced, pas-

Officer in the Federated Malay wel has of lato Indicated a' refusal in the Washington Conferenco i

to have anything to do with Nan-Treaty whereby China can ask tho along the coast of Kwanglang. sengers on the Tango Maruare States.

king politics.

Powers to send a 'commission to Admiral Chan Chak, Comman- being transferred to the 8.8. St.

Dr. Wellington, who was born der-In-Chief of the Provincial Albans of the Enslern and Aus-in 1877, has spent all his Colonial that the Standing Committes of the termine whether or not conditions:

Mr. Wang Ching-wei now states Shantung province in order to de- Navy, has on numerous occasiona traila Steamship Company..

service in the Straits Settlements C.E.C. has no power, to order a in Shantung justify the continued himself taken part in these raida The agents state that damaged and Federated Malay States. He postponement of the Congress. presence of Japanese troeps. and has displayed great resource-cargo will be returned to Brisbane, was Medical Officer in Sarawak in This can only be done at the joint "The Chinese allege that the con- fulness and courage in bringing and that not damaged will be 1905, Port Health Officer and meeting of the C.E.C. and the Cen- tinued presence of Japanese troops the pirates to book. The Admiral shipped to Manila by earliest Medical Officer. at the quarantine tral Supervisory Committee: in on Chineso soll is a violation of the is a very go-ahend officer and has available transportation, probably, station in Singapore in 1908, other words, at a plenary Session. Washingten Conferenco Trenty been pushing forward modern by the sa. Changte. This ship is Health Oficer at Selangor, Negri

Interviewed, Mr. Wu Han-min guaranteeing Chlhoso territorial ideas in his department. The scheduled about December 4, Sembilan, and Pahang in 1909, agreed with Mr. Wang China-wei's integrity and the open door, and whole fleet has recently been re- The Tango Maru, while leaving and Health Officer for the F.M.S. interpretation of the laws of the that the real purpose of the Japan- novated and it is largely due to the harbour of Thursday Island, in 1911. In 1919 he was appoint Kuomintang, and said that they ese in maintaining troops in Chinn his energy that four new gunboats ran aground. Thursday faland, Senior Health Omcer for the would be followed na closely as is to use their presence as a barter- have been bullt in Hongkong, and the scene of the mishap, is off the31.S. and has latterly been possible. The last thing the pre-ing point on the Manchurian ques- are now nearing completion. northenat coast of Australia, at acting Principal Medical Officer sent leaders desired to do was to

there.

Break them. This, however, is not When Marshal Li Chal-um the entrance of the Great Barrier pissed through Hongkong redent- | Reef.

In coming to Hongkong, Dr.tlie time, he said, to re-introduce ly on his way from Nanking to

Wellington will succeed the late petty party disputes.. Canton, Admiral Chan Chák was

Dr. J. B. Addison, the office left;

Mr. Sun Fo and Mr. Tan Yen-kai vacant by whose death has been have hinted the possibility of a temporarily held by Dr. W. B. A new order being issued, complying Moore!

with Mr. Wang Ching-wel's point. The leaders now await the return of Marshal Chiang Kai-shok, the President of the National Govern- ment, to Nanking.

away in the Delta on one of his

anti-piracy expeditions, but he was reached by wireless, with

“LANDRU'S" WEALTH,

which practically all his ships are | PROBLEM OF MONEY OBTAIN- How filled, and rushed down to Hongkong just in time to meet the Marshal.

tion

ED FROM VICTIMS.

Paris, Nov. 1.

Now that Pierre Rey, the Mar-

He reports that many pirate dens have been completely destroy-Silks "Laudru," is dead and buried, ed in the Delta recently, in add an interesting legal question arises to which several pirate as to what is to be done with the leaders have been brought to Can- money which he persunded his ton, where they have been execut dupes to give or equent to him ed after trial.

before he strangled them. The greater part of this money Rey ap pears to have spent, for only 6,000 franes (about £18) remain credited to his personal account, but there left him by Mlie, Ebel, one of his is in addition the sum of about £400

victims.

The Admiral is concentrating on capturing the lenders of the vari- ous gangs as far as possible, as they often give away their com- panions.—Our Cum Correspondent,

According

WATCHMAN - ANNOYED to French law, a

BY A STARE.

BAND CONCERT,

SUNDAY AFTERNOON IDEA

A BIG SUCCESS.

was

con

KIDNAPPED BOY FOUND.

tion.

According to Mr. Ynda, Japanese delegate to the conference, the Japancae residents in Shangtung are apprehensive of their safety in i the event of the troops being with- drawn. These residents are peti- tioning Tokyo, he said, to keep the troops in Shantung, fenring Chin- ess retaliation for the Tain in- eldent Inst Spring.

The Sino-Japanese negotiations pertaining to the Chinese desire to increase the customs duties have also hit nanag, owing to the de- mands made by the Japanese that the Nationalist Government must refund the defaulted Japanese loana from the increase in the Customs revenues.

Y.M.C.A. OFFICIAL IN HONGKONG.

the boy on board the 8.8. An Tong CONGRATULATIONS ON THE Yesterday, just prior to the vessel's departure for Singapore.

The hoy has now been restored to his parents.

LOCAL WORK.

The Chinese Y.M.C.A, is to-day. entertaining Mr. Charles A. Her schleb, of New York, one of the secretaries of the National Council

The experiment which tried yesterday of holding a Sunday' afternoon and concert in ‹ the DISCOVERED BY POLICE Botanical Gardens was in every

ON STEAMER. way justified, for the attendance was gratifyingly large, all thei

Kidnappers, who stole a bay being fully occupied. The success on Friday last, had their plana seating accommodation provided from No. 337, Reclamation Street attained has lived the organisers frustrated when the police found tu repent the den, and the next rs money of his victim, but since Rey the afternoon of Sunday, December starved himself to death before his 9th.

The mother of the boy, on miss- trial could take place and never con-

The band of the 2nd Battalion ing her son, made a report to the CHINESE SEAMEN CHARGED

fessed, he cannot legally be con-King's Own Scottish Borderers, un authorities, and, in consequence, a WITH DRUNKENNESS,

sidured guilty of the murder of Mile,der the capable conductorship, of sharp look-out was kept, particu- Ebel. Should the money, therefore, Mr. W. H. Fitz-Earle, A.R.C.M., larly on outgoing steamers. The of the Y.M.C.A. of the United Describing themselves as

be given to Mile. Ebel's relatfyes or again provided the programme yes- result of this vigilance was the States and Canada. Beto Roy's wife and children at pre-terday, and a most enjoyable one finding of the boy on the B.B. An Mr. Herschleb is travelling on the men of H.M.S. Tamar, two Chinese sent living in Tunis? brothers appeared before Mr. E A third solution is that the money dominated in the first part, with sible for shipping the boy,

it was. Classicul numbers prTong. Those who were respon- President Grant, returning from Wamilton at the

China and the on an extended visit Kowloon should be used to rephy # number of opular numbers in the second. All board, however, have not yet been Philippine Islanda. In Shanghai he Magistracy this morning with people whom Rey robbed of sums the items were rendered with that tracked down.

will join Dr. David Yul and travel behaving in a disorderly manner amounting in all to 60,000 francs skill and taste which we have come while drunk at Public Square, tabout £480).

with him to New York. Fifteen Yaumati.

to expect from the K.O.S.B. band.

years ago, Mr. Herschleb was Secro- tary of the Y.M.C.A. in Tsinanfu, Massinet's "Szabadi," with which the Programme opened, was very

Shantung, where his excellent work finely played, whilst the "Peer]

attracted the attention of the Na- Gynl" suite was a delightful group,

tional Y.M.C.A. officers In New | Then came “La Boheme,” which was

York and led to his appointment as one of the best numbers contri-

a Secretary for the Far East. buted, following wich Musician

Mr. Y. II. Tano, the General Sec- A. McKenna won much applause

retary of the Honkong Y.M.G.A!, for his excellent piccolo solo, "The

explained to Mr. Kerschlcb some of Larks Festival."

the expansion plans of the local or- Prague, Nov. 24.

Kanisation, in which the Kowloon wireless telephony be branch, now under construction, is 2 opened with selec- The first defendant loudly pro-

Czecho-Slovakia and the the most important sten for this claimed that he was a seaman in granted reprieves to Myles tons from "The Show Bont, tween

for the first time United

States was inaugurated

year. In the afternoon. a .con. the Admiralty and asked to be kunaga, a Hawaiian-born Japan- played

when Dr. Eduard Benes, Ministerference is being held with the Pre- This ese, and Vicente Kaeal, a Filipino, in Hongkong.

was very of Foreign Affairs, conversed with silent, Mr: K. 1., Chau, and some of excused.

finely done, whilst the Bar- In reply to his Worship the first until January to permit an

the other officers. defendant said that they were sea-appeal of their cases to the terri-warulle from "Tales of Hoffman" Mr. Kellogg, Reuter,

torial Supreme Court. Both are and Jarnefelt's “Praeludium" were men on 1.M.S. Tamar.

under sentence to be hanged for both played with much charm and taste. The ever-popular "Ycomen of the Guard" selections proved one killed Gill Jamieson, the 10-year-of the hits of the afternoon, and th

son of a Honolulu banker. Pramme closed with a spirited The appeal in his behalf is based gallop introducing. "John Peel." on the ground that he is insane.

Fukunaga has been baptized a'

The defendants were alleged to have gone up to a district watch- man and stared at him. When re- primanded for their discourtesy, the two men suggested accom panying the watchman toy the Station whero.on being united for: their names and addresses they became disorderly und refused to supply the Police with the neces- sary information.

The foreman, under whom the defendants serva, was present in Court and, in reply to his Worship, said that they hore excellent

characters.

His Worship said that he did not want to send the defendants to gaol and cautioned them. In warning the defendants against any discourtesy to police officers, his Worship remarked that they would not go and stare at a. Potty Officer, or least he (his Worship) knew what would happen if they did.

THE PORTSMOUTH COMMAND.

ADMIRAL SIR R. KEYES APPOINTED.

London, Nov. 25. Admiral Sir Roger Keyes hasi been appointed Commander-in- Chief at Portsmouth-Reuter.

TWO AMERICAN MURDERS.

PERMISSION TO APPEAL GRANTED.

Honolula, Nov. 19.

Farrington to-day

Governor

murder.

old

Fukunaga kidnapped and then

Roman Catholic.

ANOTHER SWIMMING

RECORD:

DUTCH LADY'S FINE FEAT. ́

Brussels, Nov. 25. Another swimming record has boon broken by the Dutch woman, Mlle. Baron, who covered 400 metres, in breast-stroke style, In |6 min. 40.3/6 sécs, which is about a second less than the previous record.--Reuter.

Amsterdam, Nov. 1. The Netherlands Olympic Dom. Admiral Keyes has been Com- mander-in-Chief of the Mediter-mittee Ins issued particulars regard. ranean Station since 1925, im-ing the number of spectators and the mediately prior to which he was takings at the recent Olympic Games in Amsterdam. Whether the gafoes Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff, From 1919 to 1921, he command resulted in a profit or a loss cannot, however, bo known until a statement

ed the Battle Cruiser Squadron of the expenses has been issued of the Atlantle Fleet.

It would, however, appear pro- Ho has had a fine naval career,ballo that when the final balance and during the war he was in is been struck the ganics have paid command of the operations against for themselves, even if there is no Zeebrugge and Ostend. He served large margin on the profit side. in China in the Boxer Rebellion.

ہو کہ گئی۔

Tho figures also disclose the fact that, as anticipated, the football. Laurnament proved tho most popular The four seaplanes comprising | and most-remunerative item'un the the Far Eastern flight will not programme, the total takinga 'ex- leave Hongkong on the return ceeded half-a-million florins, or journey to Singapore to-day, as close on £15,000, while the next most was expected. Their departure popular item namely, athlotios, 're- for Tourane Bay has been put off alisod only approximately half that until Thursday, probably on ac- amount, M count of the unsettled weather conditions.

The total was 1,424,032 forins, up- proximately £118,700.

Part

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DR. BENES CHATS WITII.

MR. KELLOGG.

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Mr. Horschleb has congratulated the local' organtention on its equip- Recent heavy rain in the Isle ofment and programme, and remind- Wight has not affected the land-d its secretaries that the success slide at Black Gang, which is still of such an organisation is measured a new by the variety and extent of its moving slowly, enusing

unselfiki śervico to the community, With 2,425 members moving in all circles in the Colony, the organisa- } tion should have a wide influence, he said..

chine to be formed.

Now liston here, Boss, I know what I'm worth to this place. You've got to come across with a big rise..."

£

This evening the Chinese Y.M.C.A. is playing, the U.S.S. Sacramento af basket ball in the gymnasium on Bridgen-Street, and its billiards. team is, plaving European Y.M.C, A In the latter's building on Salisbury Road, Kow- Joon.

U.S. MAY SELL MORE LINES.

SHIPPERS MUST DECIDE THE FUTURE.

New York, Nov. 21. T. V. O'Connor, chairman of the United States Shipping Board, said i to-day that the 'prosent outlook for the American merchant marine was most encouraging, but that the time had arrived for "Ameri

shippers to demonstrato whether they really want an American merchant marine."

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Ho asserted that the Jonos White Bill was the turning point and expressed confidence that American shippers would plaço, their cargoes in the holds of American vessels.

He said that the Shipping Board expects to sell eight or ten additional linea within a year.

Shanghai, Nov. 26,

8. C. Chang, riding Garrison at the Chinese Jockey Club Taco meeting, this afternoon, won, his mount pay- ing a record dividend of $10,841.70

There was only one backer in the pari mutuel-Router:

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