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WL+JEXUF SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1929. HA† SINGL OOPY Z OKKEN

2001 ANTEN

AMERICAN KILLED GENERAL BOOTH IN R.A.F. BRING KING AIMEE MCPHERSON SURVIVORS FROM

IN QUARREL.

SEAMEN'S BRAWL ON OIL TANKER.

FATAL BLOW WITH BOTTLE

AT LAICHIKOK.

ACTION.

INJUNCTION TO RESTRAIN THE HIGH COUNCIL.

RESPITE OBTAINED,

London, Jan. 18.

TO SAFETY..

INAYATULLAH LEAVES KABUL TO REBEL.

SIR SAMUEL HOARE'S GREAT TRIBUTE TO R.A.F.

KIDNAPPING,

JUDGE'S CONNEXION WITH THE SENSATIONAL CASE.

REMOVED FROM ROLL.

London, Jan. 18. The name of Judge Hardy has been removed from the member- ahip roll of the American. Bar

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General Bramwell Booth's de- position from the leadership of the Salvation Army by the High CHARGE OF MURDER. Council of the Army was to-day | MAGNIFICENT LESSON, ARROciation, following a

the anbject of an action on the A fatal quarrel åboard

General's behalf In the Chancery Standard Oil Company's tanker at Division of the High Court of Lalchikok, resulting in the Justice. death

of

seania!

named

Counsel for the General asked John Zuttérberg, said to be an for an injunction to restrain the High Council from acting on its American Swiss, is briefly men- resolution to remove the General. tioned in this morning's police He pointed out that the urgency reports. Another member of the of the injunction was very great because the High Council was in

London, Jan, 18. Masterly organisation by Habi- bullah Khan, the rebel leader, has enabled him to secure complete control of Kabul, the citadel having been peacefully surrendered. He has been proclaimed Amir in the entire province of Kalmul, and has at his command 16,000 men, fully equipped, whose order is excellent.

Amanullah has been in receipt of

news of the developments, and it is

napping.

erew, named Pedersen, has been session and would proceed, unless significant that he to-day ordered lion in the spring of 1926.

placed under arrest.

restrained, to nominate

a

HSIN WAH

MR. JACOBSEN CALLS ON COMPANY.

SOME PASSENGERS SENT TO THEIR HOMES.

THE SILVER ANNIVERSARY BUICK

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THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.

Telephone Central 1246 or IR47.

33 Wong Nal Chung .......... Happy Valley. Road,

Bulls and Inners

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From the Office Butts,

We didn't realise how clover Tho

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Doctor's Dilemma:-

Carvalho Yeo was until wo read Whether, in view of Kowloon's that he once defrauded two Scots- now-found status, the charging of

Peak rates is justified.

men.

□ □ "Archibald:"-The best way to

cure you wife of smoking is to according to a Paris writer. `› All Haggis is really a French dieb, tell her that, the young married the samo, Scotsmen consumo it lady next door looks perfectly a la cart, aweet with a cigarette between her

.. lips.

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tional admission during a Grandi

AEROPLANE SEARCHES

-We learn from the Preas that ៗ ជ Jury Enquiry that he received a

our new Legislative Councillors fee of $2,500 from Mrs. Almea Officer of the ill-fated Hain Wall, to have won their spurs,

Mr. Peter Jacobsen, the Chief newspaper. The police there seem feel sure that this favourable im- "Cockpit Closed," says a Manila are very agrocable fellows. We McPherson, the well-known the only surviving European officer evangelist.

pression is mutual of the ship, has so far re The fee, he said, was for legal covered as to be able to pay a visit

"Many women are now wearing In accordance with our weekly advies given prior to the time sheo he oflices of the China Mer- frocks to match their furniture," custom of printing one alarming. was charged with conspiracy in for the purpose of securing, money

Some of fact, the information is hereby dis- connexion with her story of kid- with which to my clothing. Ho

chunts Storm Navigation Company, a contemporary.

them no doubt look very suite... closed that next Tuesday the

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Sanitary Board will discuss the The "kidnapping" of Aimee brief statement made to the mana- later returned to hospital. In a

All leg-glances are not confined: burning topic of incineration. ePherson created a great sensager of the Company he stated that

to the cricket field.

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"Reader:"-Henry VIII started ne never saw the Captain of the At the moment, only the barest accesser to the General Counsel the Royal Standard as he is no long-Angeles, on May 18th, 1926, and board,

the Governor of Kandaliar to lower

The Mayor of Taipo is sore at the first tennis courts. She vanished at Ocean Park, Los bost after he was

His love washed over- not being invited to become an games were the very deuce. details of the affair are available, proceeded to contest the invalidity er King.

"Unaffleinl." The Mayor of Kow- but it appears that the quarrel{ of the deposition."

O D she was found on June 23rd at Of the boatload of Chinese sur-Joon Tong, interviewed on the anme What is redder than blood? took place last night whilst the Mr. Justice Eve granted an in-

Intermediaries representing both Agua Prieta, Mexico, and was vivors rescued by a fishing junk subject, has intimated that he will The rear lights on Grandmother's tanker, the Royal Arrow, was lying terim injunction restraining the sides waited on the British Minia taken across the border to Arizona nineteen are still in Hongkang, have to change his press agent, alongside the Standard. Oil Com-High Council from taking actioner, Sir Francis Humphrys, yeater-where she said that she had been these being all members of the crew. pany's wharf at Laichikok.

the evacuation by air of the abal-woman and held for ransom but sent. back to their native districts, day and requested him to facilitate kidnapped by two men and a Five of the passengers have been

A London cated King Inayatullah, in whose escaped.

| amongst these being one who was judge has ruled favour Amanullah had abulented

Charges of criminal conspiracy Chinese gunboat Chungshan at his wife are one.

formerly only on Monday Inst.

a scanian aboard the that a man 'and against Mrs. McPherson, her Canton. mother, Kenneth Ormiston, a radio

From the way The compradore of the Hain Wal, some of them operator, and Mrs. Lorraine did not travel with the steamer on talk in Hong- Wiseman-Sielaff, growing out of her ill-fated trip from Shanghai. the investigation of the disappear-He remained over in Canton when

kong, you'd the Hain Wah last called there, and think they were DISABLE:SIERREFOUNDER ZAMANOV

he came down yesterday on a visit even more, to the Company's office.

"Bit With Bottle,

on the resolution and gave leave to serve short notlee of motion for Monday morning.

The High Council, which had As to the cause of the quarrel, already met to elect the General's nothing has so far been disclosed, successor, adjourned upon hear but it is alleged that L. Pedersening of the injunction.—British a fellow-seamen of the deceased,

Wireless. described in the police report as

moss-man, hit Zetterberg on the managing director of the Salvation Commissioner Haines, the head with # bottle, causing Injuries from which the latter suddenly to-day during the after- Army Assurance Society dled

11003 meeting Council,--Renter.

succumbed before the arrival of medical aid

The body of the dpecks seama hug been removed to the Kowloon Mortuary, and A post-mortem examination is taking place this afternooni.

Murder Chunge?

After the affair, Pedersen was

of the High

RECENT MUKDEN

COUP.

arrested by the police, and it is SUN CHUAN-FANG DENIES ANY

stated that he will be charged-with

the nurder of Zellerbery.

Police oficiale are still investi-

PART IN AFFAIR.

gating the affair, and this morning" PUBLIC DISCLAIMER. Detective-Inspector Lane called ut

the offices of the Standard Oll Com- pany for the purpose of making en- quiries.

The Royal Arrow, aboard which the futul affray occurred, is one of the Standard Oil Company's fleet of oil tankers, and she arrived in part yesterday from San California

Murder Charge?

To Prevent Binodshed. It was represented that, the de- capital would have the effect of pre- parture of Inayatullah from the

venting farther bloodshed.·

Arrangements. were therefore made for British R. A. F. planes early this morning to convey Inayatullah and the members of his sulte, including seven ladies, the ex-Minister for War, and two brothers of Queen Souriya from Kabul to Peshawar. The flight was carried out without mishap.

Was

Minister an Air Pilot. Rescue work done by the British Royal Air Force in Afghanistan referred to by Sir Samuel Hoare, the Air Minister, in, a speech wheh he made to-day. Dairen, Jan. 18. "In the past," he said, "Kabul In connexion with the execution has borne a sinister reputation and of the late General Yang Yu-ting more than once an attack upon a and General Chang Yin-hus, the British citizen has led to war and well-known former tupan of Chihli, the expenditure of lives and treu- General Sun Chuan-fang has made sure.

public statement emphatically i Pedro,

Later. The Telegraph - now barns that the quarrel broke out round about midnight, and it is stated to save

"At Christmas, it was not only denying that he was in any way the British community that was connected with the plot to over-in danger, y Nine other countries throw the Manchuria

regime, represented in Afghanistan all which finally led to the execution saw their nationals faced with. of General Yang,

danger to life and property in separable from an Afghan civil war.

JAPAN AND NEW CHINA TARIFFS,

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Agreement ched. With The

A

Finance Minister.

NEW RATES ACCEPTED.

Shanghai, Jan. 19. With reference to Baron Tanaka's statement regarding

tarif

agreement, the Japanese Consul-General in Shanghai, Mr. Yada, confirma the report that he has negotiated an agreement with Mr. T. V. Soong, the Finance Minister,

The agreement is in the form of an exchange of notes instead of a treaty.

Mr. Yada refused to divulge the nature of the agreement, which it is understood, is tantamount to Japanene.re- cognition of the new tariff which is being enforced on February 1st-Reuter,

In relating his visit to

the residence at Mukden of General Yang Yu-ting, General Sun Chuan- fang explained that he went there "Fortunately, our brave and able arisen, while one or both of the men for the sole purpose of attending was during the war a pilot in the Minister, Sir Francis Humphrys, were under the influence of drink, the banquet on the birthday of Royal Air Force. He knew the

The brawl had gone on for some Yang's father. little time when, it is alleged, instant, he received an unexpected often experienced the advantages woman pastor, were, preferred at

On the morning of the 11th.possibilities of air power. He had

ance and reappearace of the Pedersen struck Zetterberg.on the call from General Chang Hsueh-

of air transport. back of the head with a fall bottle lang and General Chang Tso there were ready at hand, January 10th, 1927, and dismissed Fortunately, the Los Angeles Superior Court, on hsiang and at the subsequent efficient squadrons of the Royal-Reuter's American Service, Death is stated to have been aled for the first time, and to his Interview with these two, he learn

Air Force upon the North-East Frontier. most instantaneous, and the body great surprise, that Chang Houch- was removed to the Mortuary at two. Hang had executed two of his o'clock this morning, after the Pointe father's trusted and intimate lice had been sent for, and had car associates. ried out preliminary investigations.

of beer.

for

Splendid Work,

"Swiftly and brilliantly the rescue machines arrived. Flying Immediately after his interview at a hundred miles an hour over The affair took place in a cabin with Chang Hauch-liang, General mountains otherwise almost im- on board the "Royal Arrow" and it Sun Chuan-fang made is stated that there were one or departure

a hasty penetrable in the teeth 'of BROW Dairen. It Is and winter storms, landing amidst two eye-witnesses. It was first believed that his movements and the fire of rival armies, they thought by bhese that Zetterberg his strong criticism of Chang successfully transported to safety was not badly hurt and they sent such-liang are

the primary one hundred and forty citizens for doctor, who on arrival, found causes for the prevailing belief men, women and childen-of ten

that he took an active part in the different nationalities. coup.

the man already dead.

Pedersen will be charged at the Kowloon Magistracy on Monday on the capital charge.

TO BE DISSOLVED.

TIENTSIN KUOMINTANG IN BAD BOOKS,

Nanking, Jan, 18. The Kuomintang C.E.C. yester- day decided to order the dissolution of the Tlentsfri Kuomintang. It is the intention of the Central Kuo-

mintang to send representatives to

TEAPOT DOME OIL SCANDAL ECHO.

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It now transpires that the body picked up yesterday by No. 4 police truth in the launch was that of a Chinese boy story about a seven years of age. His body local anglor was found on the centre of a group having asked of three islands known as the Sam the Ferry Com- Mun (Three Parcels") group.

Chief Steward Rescued. Following

upon the rescue of Cheung Shung-fat from Hak Chauj Shan Island, upon which he was cast after drifting for 20 miles from the scene of the Hsin Wah wreck, news was received yesterday of the recovery of yet another sur- vivor from the same island.

It would appear that this man, Ld Wing-po, who was. the Chief Steward of the ill-fated vessel, had been left as dead on the raft when It broke up against the rocks. How- ever, with another man, who was the other of the trio who had sur- vived the arduous experience, he clambered ashore and remained there until rescued, at 8 o'clock yes terday morning by another party of fishermen.

In the meantime, his companion, the watchman, had gone mad with cold and privation, and cast him

self into the sea.

pany to loan him a turnstile to uge as a hook.

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scooler,

"Are you going now?. She has only just alarted."

"Yrs. I want to avoid the crush!"

A lot of men are self-possessed and others are married.

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What the Hongkong public wants most to read is the report of the Commission appointed to report on defalcations in the Gov. ernment Service.

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Headline in the Post:-"Legisla tive Jari Like most of theso jokes, they jar.

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It is said that many of those good people fined for having nuzzleless doga are patiently waiting for the wolf outside the front door to: weaken.

ឃ ក The local lady who referred to a persistent admirer

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young pup must have felt con Viniced that he bolonged to the

wee cur Bex

The only reason some fellows wear a moustache, ia they're at tached to it

to

· ព Recent correspondence leads one assume. that Hongkong's national game is "Kickit,"

ᄆᄆ Great words of little wives:-- Ho is a little forward," "My husband is like a centre-half,

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It has been decided to erect a statue in America to Mr. Pussy. Lady Alexander objects to the foot Johnson. Edgar Wallace thrillers. Scots sorry for him, but of course he We are honestly what hae will no doubt protest.

hns brought it upon himself.

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"Love Hungry" at the Quecu's

The Bateman cartoon has yet to

Theatre must have attracted those be drawn. depicting the consterna with heart-y appetites.

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tion caused at Fanling when a four-ball drove off before twelve- forty.

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Wing-po said that before drifting European dress in Persia will

In an interview last night at the Government Civil Hospital, Li The compulsory wearing of

to the No. 5 lifeboat which had away from the sinking ship, he cause a lot of dis-turban-s.

With these building operations saw the two British engineers take

going on in the city, it is no sur- pounded to pieces against the ship. Her cold is has had a slight cold. hardly been launched before it was

According to our contemporary; prise to hear blasting every day "The Queen has had alight cold. In Queen's Road Central. He was with Mr. Campbell, the

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Chief Engineer, for a few minutes Her cold is keeping to her rooms," in the water before the latter sank. We'd hate trying to sell her SEVERE WEATHER ON nature of the trip of 20 miles on

After recounting the hazardous Frigidaire! YANGTSZE.

HEAVY FALLS OF SNOW REPORTED.

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When the ex-Amir meets some

other deposed monarch he will be able to doclure, "I am anullah.”

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It is claimed that the speakers language. Naturally

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Now that the Chinese are taking to the air, it is appropriate that

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the raft, upon the horrora We thank the thirteen constant of which he dwelt with readers and the gentleman whose at the University on Monday used. great emotion, the Chief Steward "attention had be drawn to the Biblical said that the raft was finally matter" for their kindly efforts to when addressing a Congregation. -cast upon the bleak Island with induce us to make bad puns on the

only three ocupants, including word "joy." celved this morning from the outset of the journey.

himself, all that remained of ä A naval wireless message re-party of eleven on the raft at the

DO The "Procession of Bacchus" they should claim the interest of a Yangtaze states that severe weather conditions are being experienced

broadcasted, the other evening is Fowler. Captain Not Called, reported to have been a staggering Speaking of the happenings on performance.

A contemporary referred the hoard the Hain Wah between the

"other day to à "well-known moment when it struck the rock An advertiser wants a set of magnot's" "offer. It must have re and when it took the final plunge, golf clubs "which must be reason been quite an attractive proposi

the Chief Steward asserts that ablo." Personally we have over tion: the Captain was not on the found them behave like that. bridge at the moment of the

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"When is a golf-ball really disaster. He states that the story

Local horticulturists put a lot of lost?" asks a sporting journal. went round that, before handing money into banka on the hillside. When a Bcottish player has search- over the watch to the Second

ed his caddy's pockets three times

on the river. There have been heavy falls of anopy.

The altuation at Hankow mains unchanged.

TWO NEW CHINESE MINISTERS,

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"Has there ever been a better or happier example of the beneficfal use to which the aeroplane can be) applied?" asked the Air Minister,

"Suppose that at the beginning of the Indian mutiny, aeroplanes had been available to rescue yomen and children in the be- leaguered posts. Would not many lives have been saved and would New York, Jan. 18. not great calamities have been DR. WU AND MR. ALFRED SZE Instructed Mr. Kwok to wake him Llewellyn as President of the

to his cabin, Captain Jensen had unanimous election of Sir William hearted to the kirk. According to the New York avoided? Times, although retired for many years and a nonagenarian, Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Benr, has thrown

ROCKEFELLERS DEFEND COL. STEWART.

Two Lessons..

"The evacuation of Kabul by air

Officer, Mr. Kwok, and retiring. Great enthusiasm marked the in vain and gone off broken-

APPOINTED.

Nanking, Jan. 18.

up when Waglan Light was sight-Royal Academy. ed, but it appeared that Mr, Kwok well in. did not do 80,

The State Council has appoint-

the whole weight of his Influence has two lessons to teach, Ited Dr. C. C. Wu and Mr. Alfred Sze into the fight that his son, John D. teaches first of all the leason of as Plenipotentiary Ministers to the city at a later date to organise Rockefeller, Junr. is making to pre-the mobility of air power. The America and Britain respectively. a now Headquarters.

vent reflection on the character of The C.E.C, has also expressed its Colonel Stewart, the chairman of effected most of the rescues were

troop-carrying machines that-Renter. dissatisfaction over the present the Standard Oil Company. management and inefficiency of The reflection threatened is the actually sent in two or three daya

The last that the Chief Steward

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The Praya is to have some moro-

So Llewellyn is

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saw of Captain Jensen was when Unofficial members, what about he was on the bridge, firing Verey self-determination

Now that Kowloon has two

yhte In the hope of procuring Valley?"

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Immediate assistance.

Hopes were received yesterday

for

Lots of people aim at the Prest- by the rescue of the two survivors,dency in Mexico. Tack aerodrome left in the after- and two aeroplanes from the Kat

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on lubrication at the Engineers' We understand that the lecture Institute last night was followed by practical demonstrations.

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"The genuine A. B. has little in some of the Kuomintang depart-result of the refusal of Colonel from Irak to the North-west and perhaps wecks to traverse.

common with the sallor of the mente in cities of North China. A Stewart to answer questions put to Frontier, 4 distance of no less The second lesson is that the noon for an exhaustive acarch of smaller ones, we read.

movies," says critic. Yes, Committee of twelve, including him by the Senate Committee re-than 2,500 miles.

Big whales often "swallow there's a difference between the Marahal Chiang Kai-shek and Mr. aponsible for the investigation of

aeroplane if properly used, can be the waters and islands within

Walls real tar and the film's tar, Wu Han-min, has been elected for the Teaport Dome oll scandal last smaller machines were flown over and benefit to the British Empire the wreck.

"When they arrived, they and made an instrument of real help a wide radius of the scene

within whalest the purpose of directing the re-spring-Reuter's American Ser the mountains and country that by and to humanity at large. night with the report that no of The returned last organisation work.

vice.

other means would have taken days' British Wireless.

rescue had been effected.

rests that Hongkong could do The continued absence of rain

with some more sop-stuff,

of our chauffeurs certainly act as A resident says Hongkong's : motoring laws are obsolete, Soma if they were,