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ENGLAND MEETS DISASTER.
HOBBS AND SUTCLIFFE DISMISSED.
AUSTRALIAN INNINGS CLOSES
WITH 35 RUNS LEAD...
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NO. ILTA IM VIA=XUF TUESDAY,
TIENTSIN-PUKOW
HOLD-UP.
BRITAIN TO ASK JAPAN TO IMPROVE POSITION.
COMMONS QUESTIONS.
London, Feb, 4. That the British Government will shortly suggest to Japan that something should be done to en- nble the resumption of traffic on
OLDFIELD'S CATCHES.the Tientsin-Pakow Railway was
DISASTROUS FIRE IN CITY.
A HOLLYWOOD ROAD HOUSE GUTTED.
FEBRUARY 5, 1929. EXACT
THE KING.
LUMINOUS RAYS TO
BE APPLIED.
SCIENCE'S NEAREST APPROACH
TO SUNSHINE.
BRIGADE BATTLES FLAMES FOR OVER AN HOUR.
GAINING STRENGTH.
London, Feb. 4.
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LADY M.P.S. EXPRESS ANXIETY,
SIR CECIL CLEMENTI TO SUBMIT REPORT.
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FOR DISTRESSED MINERS.
MORE HONGKONG DONATIONS! RECEIVED.
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"EVERY $5 MEANS £1.”
"It may help to keep their home fres burning," writes a local resi- dent in forwarding a contribution to the Lord Mayor's Fund for the relief of distressed British-miners. Several further donations are to
A BIG NEW CITY BLOCK.
7-STOREY BLOCK ON HOTEL SITE.
LAND INVESTMENT COMPANY'S LATEST PROJECT.
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foreshadowed in the HF A FIREMAN INJURED. Buckingham Palace for five days, OFFICIAL STUTEMENT. hand since yesterday in response SHOPS WITH ARCADES.
to
England wasted Tittle time in dis-
Commons at question-time to-day. Mr. H. W. Looker (C. Exxox, posing of the last Australian bate- men at Adelaide this morning, only S. E.), the well-known ex-China four runs being added before Old-hand, naked the Government on field fell a victim to a swerver from behalf of British interests Tate,
approach the Japanese Govern ment with a view to obtaining a resumption of through traffic and communication on the Tientsin-Pu- how Railway.
The Australian Innings closed, therefore, at 369, giving them a lend of 36 runs on the first innings, 8 matter of very little importance, bat for the fact that England ex- perienced a most disastrous start, fusing the wickets of both their famous opening pair before the scores had been lovelled.
A disastrous fire broke out in Hollywood Road, early this morn- ing a four-storey building being rutted, luckily without loss of life, altough considerable damage was done, only the four walls of the pre- mises being left standing.
The first call was received by the
The first bulletin issued from
states:
the
to the Telegraph appeal to British- ers in. Hongkong, including one of $60. One of the donors expresses all good wishes for the success of this most deserving cause."
London, Feb. 4. The revival recently of the
and Agency Co. Ltd., is shortly.to The Hongkong Land Investment agitation against the mui faci
start work on laying the founda- system in Hongkong produced four
tions of new seven-storied build- questions to the Dominions Secre- tary in the House of Commons to that there is atlik need for further burnt-out portion of the Hongkong News to hand from Home shows Ing which is to be erected on the day, which Lt. L.C.M.S. Amery an-funds for the workless miners and Hotel swered together, stating that he
was awaiting a report of the work their families; who are suffering This announcement was made at
much and privation Hongkong in February, 1923, to ther. The Prince of Wales is (Mr. B. D. F. Beith) stated that ing the present severe wintry well-held to-day, when the Chairman cope with this problem.
shortly to make a second appeal the ground floor of the premises This answer was greeted by a for more support to the Fund. So will be devoted to up-to-date shops number of supplementary ques-far, the Telegraph has received the divided by arcades, whilst the
following donations:
building will also include suites of large and small offices and domes....... Lie quarters or flats, according to the demand,
tions.
Lady Astor suggested that it was far from wise to allow the mui tani. system to continue under British administration.
"The King continues to gain strength slowly and was able to sit up on Saturday and Sunday for a short time. The question of ray thereapy has been further considered. The period of administration of ultra-violet ray has terminated. and it will now be possible to It was necessary, he said, for many reasons that communication Central Fire station at 8.40 a.m.
supplement this treatment by should be restored as soon as possi-from the Tung Wah Hospital and
addition of luminous ble. The railway, he stated, is
rays." immobilised at present as the re- Hollywood Road fire alarmis and ap-
(Signed) · Stanley Hewett, Australia's alight advantage wassult of the differences still exist-pliances were immediately despat
R. S. Woods, made possible by a sterling dis- ing between China and Japan.
Frank Howitt, · play of batting 'yesterday by young
ched. A Home Call followed · 10
Hugh Rigby, Jackson, who making his first op-
Sir Austin Chamberlain, reply-
Dawson of Penn. pearance in a Test match, hit 164 ing, agreed that the position is minutes later and four appliances
The inclusion of Drs. Howitt and runs, and flogged the Englandnounced that he was enquiring
still unsatisfactory, und 2431- were soon on the scene. bowlers for fifteen Tours.
The blaze threatened to assume peris ia to be noted. They were Woods, the two ray therapy ex- Oxenhang and Oldfield carried whether the Japanese Government considerable proportions, the
effect an improvement.-Reuter, was in a position to take steps to ground floor of the premises, No. called into consultation on Decem-
224, Hollywood Road, being ocber 16th, and have since adminis It will be recalled that engineers cupied by a wine and medicine tered the treatment.
Report In Few Weeka, It is emphasised by a medical recently ran a train over the Yel-denler, with a tailor's shop on the low River Bridge, and that a pro-second floor where the outbreak oc- authority that the luminous rays
Lt. Col. Amery said he hoped to mise, of a resumption of goods curred, the remaining floors being represent the rays of the sun, get the report within the course of traffe was made.
used as dwellings. Prompt work being selenco's nearest approach the next few weeks. In explana- by the Brigade, however, restrict to manufactured sunshine,
tion of the dimculties confronting ed the flames to the building in
Ultra-violet глув are not the Hongkong Government, he said which the outbreak occurred.
luminous except under special that there had been a large influx conditions and through special of Chinese families from the main- Instruments
land, and these may have included
on the good work, and by the end of the day's play, the lead had already been substantially built.
To-day's Play. There were 5,000 people
and
present when Oldfield Blackle went to the pitch to strug- gle for runs for the last wicket.
The weather was brilliant, and the wicket seemed little affected by the play, still playing extremely fast.
It was revealed this morning
TSINÄN PROBLEM
SETTLED?
that in recognition of his birth- DR. WANG & MR. YOSHIZAWA day, which he celebrates to-day, Patsy Hendren, the popular Mid- dlesex batsman, who is 40, was presented with'a nuiténne at a hap-
TALK FOR TEN HOURS.
An Hour's Battle.
The Police Emergency Squad were called out, while members of Chinese Police Reserve assisted in the St. John's Ambulance Corps and
placing a cordon about the area.
By 3.40 a.m. the fire was well
by ceremony at the hotel where the ACCEPTABLE TO BOTH.siderable damage had been done.
England team is staying. -
Oldfield's Dogged Effect, Blackle made three singles Dif Tate, but the English bowler was trandling beautifully, and Oldfield mistimed a swerver in trying to turn, the ball to leg and was clean-
Luminous raya lio between vlolet ous rays certain blemente are and red rays. To produce lumin- placed in the core of the carbon. These elements include fron phos- phorus calcium and they and the carbon are lighted by electricity and give off the rays.
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under control but not before con- The first, second and third floors and roof collapsed while the street A patient can only absorb Shanghai, Feb. 6.
leading to the Tung Wah Hospital certain quantity of ultra violet An important development in wan atrewn with debris and rays and apparently that mark has. the 'Sino-Japanene negotiations is
houachold effects. that had been reached in the case of the recorded as the result of a resumping building. It
been thrown from the blaz-King-British Wireless.
feared tion of the conferences between when the floors collapsed that.
siding, but members of the P.W.D.
Was
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the Government expected to receive Miss Susan Lawrence asked when
Already acknowledged .$60. W.G.R.
A.D.
A. Stoker
50.
5.
5.
Mr. and Mrs. D.H.M.....10/tive offer has been made by an
Our thanks are due to these con-
It was also stated that an attrac- other party for co-oporation in the
the report of the Governor of Hong-tributors, and we shall be pleased development of the site, but this,
kong.
Va
a considerable number of mui tɛdi. Mr. Amery and he had no reason Hongkong. were not to belleve that the authorities in carefully watching any case of ill-treatment, or any case in which a girl. ex- presses a wish to leave the family with which she is living and to live
by herself. :
Cruelly to Drive Away. "Obviously," he added, "nothing could be more cruel than to drive these girls from the family with which they happen to be living."-
Reuter.
to receive, acknowledge and for- ward to the proper quarters any 'urther donations to the Fund,' A's already explained, the Home Gov- ernment is adding £1 to every £1 raised by the Fund, so that each $5 subscribed in Hongkong will mean an addition of £1. ·
U.S. CRUISER BILL
TIME-LIMIT.
SENATE REFUSES TO STRIKE OUT. THE CLAUSE.
PRESIDENTIAL VETOT
up to the present, has had no de- finite results.
Chairman's Speech.
Addressing the shareholders, the Chairman said:-Gentlemen,The report and statement of accounts- having been in your handa some days I will, with your permission
follow the usual procedure and
take them as read.
The amount. "available for ap propriation, including 8933,219.48 brought forward from the previous year, is $1,523,978.45-this after
· payment of the interim dividend in August last of $2 per share absorb. Ing $480,000. Your Directora re- commend a final dividend of $2 per share absorbing $480,000, a bonus to staff of $8,000 and to place to a General Contingency Account the sum of $50,000, leaving $985,978,45 to be carried forward, and I trust shareholders will approve these appropriations.
oral, there is not a great deal to As regards the accounts in gen-
bowled. Oldfeld had batted dog- Mr. Yoshozawa, the Japanese de- there was danger of the walls sub- REPORT ON MALAYA | against this form of domestle ser construction of fifteen new 10,- tall for comment beyond the Mort-
gedly for 32 runą,
at 369,
The innings closed giving Australia a lead of 35 runs
on the first innings.
Tate and White were outstand- ing among the England bowlers, the former being in particularly fine form throughout. He bowled no fewer than 42 overs, of which ten were maidens, and took four
wickets for 77 runs.
legate, and Dr. G. T.. Wang, the Nanking Foreign Minister.
They went into conference at
has resulted in the drawing up of It is believed that the meeting
#solution of the Tainun situation table to both China and Japan,
proceeded soon afterwards to shore
up the adjacent buildings.
So far as can be ascertained, no
serious.
Official Report.
The official report of the out
CRITICISED.
DEPOSITS.
ser-
the Bill."
rage and Property Accounta.
You will notice that the Contin- at the bottom of the 1927 balance to gent Liability of $50,000 mentioned
sheet has disappeared. The quen- tion calling for this has been settled In Court and there is therefore no need to continue the provision.
Washington, Feb. 4. After a debate lasting many days, the Seaste has at last come to a decision rezarding the con- troversial time-limit clause in the The history of the movement Cruiser Bill, authorising the
vice, amounting in some repects |000-ton cruisers... › to virtual slavery, needs nò de-
The Senato has refused. tailed recapitulation. It will be eliminte the time clause from six o'clock last night, and their dis-lives were lost but one member of CAPT. ORMSBY-GORE, AND TIN recalled that in 1922 there was cussions continued until 4.30 am. the Fire Brigade was injured by this morning, a session of over teu falling debris, the wound not being
strong outery against the old Chineso custom of purchasing hours.
young girls London, Feb. 4.
bond 09 Criticism was ventured in the.vants, who were paid no actual House of Commons to-day, of wages, and the treatment of whom Capt. W. G. A. Ormsby-Gore's was in many cases brutal. report on his recent, tour of the Instances of cruelty, sometimes Malaya and Java.
occurred, and the body which was formed to seek abolition of this The Rt. Hon. Sir James Agg-
while some 30 members of the to the Dominions Secretary, that The terms of the agreement have Brigade were employed.
Capt. Ormsby-Gore's report on his and the former was strangely not been divulged.-Reuter,
visit It is understood that the owner
contained
many restrained. He had only contribut-
of the building was the occupier of crepancies, particularly with re- being absent at the time of the out- Malay the ground floor, Chan Wai, but gard to the tin industry in
break he has not yet been traced.
Lt. Col. Amery, in reply, said No information is available as to that if particulars were supplied insurance or the approximate dam- to Capt. Ormsby Gore, no doubt age. Superintendent Brookes was the Under-Secretary would in- in charge assisted by Station Om-vestigate. cer Moss and Messrs. Buckeridge He added that the Under-Secretsat, Part 3 of the Ordinance de- tary was well "award that the and Smith.
exhaustion of the Malayan tin deposits had been frequently pro- phested."Reuter
(which is the major issue) accepbreak states that the building was Far East, and his visit to Ceylon, of an inhuman nature, repeatedly ́sidential veto of the Bill, as Pro-/al Scholarship Fund. I feel surc
Early Disaster. Hobbs and Sutcliffe opened for England as usual, and Hobby had scored only one run when he was
of four floors, approximately 45 Dr. Wang left for Nanking this feet by 17 feet. Four appliances morning, presumably to obtain the were in use, with three hydrants
settlement,'
If the Bill passes in its pre- sent form, it is required that the keels of the new cruisers must
Turning to the Profit and Los be laid down before July, 1991.
The decision of the Senate at Account, there is an item of $6,000, once incurs the risk of a Pre- subscription to the Chater Memor aident Coolidge has intimated that all shareholders will approve on several occasions that he will of this donation as a recognition on their part of the success of this four cruisers in the first year if guidance and foresight of the late the time-limit providing for the Sir Paul Chater. laying down of five cruisers an- Fire Insurance shows an increase ually in 1929, 1930 and 1931 of $9,403.04. This is chiefly due to the new properties we have ac- not dropped. Mr. Hoover, the 'President-quired during the last fifteen lect, is reported to favour the months. attitude taken up by President Coolidge. Reuter's American Ser vice.
brilliantly taken on the leg side State Connell's acceptance of the and two motor pumps working, Gardner suggested in a question type of bondage had a good case. only consent to the building of Company so largely due to the
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by Oldfield from Hendry.
Hammond joined Sutcliffe,
ed three' runs to a total of 21, when
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Sutcliffe also fell a victim to the DOMINIONS VOTES IN
wicket-keeper, who took him smart- ly off A'Beckett. Sutcliffe had bean batting with confidence, hav- ing scored 17 of the 21 runs on the board.
NAVAL DEFENCE.
AUSTRALIA MORE THAN REST Jardine and Hammond were un-
PUT TOGETHER.. separated at lunch-time, though they had scored very slowly. Hum.
London, Feb. 4. ↑ mond's contribution was elever, In the House of Commons to- eight with Jardine, while the later day, at question-time, the Domi- had made 10.
nions Secretary was asked to give AN EASTERN EUROPE England Aro now seven runs the estimated expenditure of the ahead with.eight wickets in hand. Dominions on naval defence for
the year 1928/20.
Australia Ist-Innings.
W. M. Woodfull, e Duckworth, b
Tato
A. Jackson, 1.b.w, White
II. L. Hondry, e Duckworth,
A
Lt. Col. L. C. M, S. Amery, re- plying, gave the following figures, which he stated were only approxl 104 mate:
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Australia: £3,387,000,
New Zealand: £711,000. (in- cluding £125,000 sent as an in- stalment of her contribution to
Canada: G32,725,000 (approxi- mately £425,000).-Reuter,
Larwood
2
/ A. F. Kippax, b White
3
J. 8. Ryder, Lb.w. While
D. Bradman, e Larwood, b Tate ..
40
the Singapore Buse).
E. L. A'Beckett, b White
30
South Africn: £98,000.
R. M. Oxenham, c Chapman,
White......
18
'W. A. Oidflold, b Tato
82
3
A
Total
300 England Ist Innings ... ...
331
Fall of wickets: 1 for 1
run
England.-2nd Innings.
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D. Blackin not out
Extras
(Woodfull), 2 for 6 (Hendry), for Hobbs, e Oldfield, b Hendry
10 (K), 4 for 146 (Ryder), 6
for 227 (Bradman). for 237 (Jack Sutcliffe, a Oldfield, b A'Beckett Bom, 7 for 323 (Oxenham). 8 for 386 Hammond, not out
A'Bockett), 9 for 865 (Grimmstt), Jardine, not out
10 for 369 (Oldfield).
Larwood
Tate: White
Geary
PROTOCOL.
RUSSIA'S WISIŁ REGARDING
KELLOGG PACT.
Warsaw, Feb. 4. Poland and Lithuania have agreed to the suggestion from the Sovlet Government that they
dis-
RÉPARATIONS AND EVACUATION.
- HOW THE QUESTIONS ARE CONNECTED.
London, Feb. 4. Mr. Winston Churchill, Chancel- should sign the Protocol relating lor of the Exchequer, was asked to the Kellogg Pact for the in the House of Commons to-day renunciation of war'
whether it was the polley of the
The Ordinance.
After a protracted controversy, the matter was made the subject of legislation, and the Female Domes- tic Service Ordinance of 1923 was passed. This distinctly declared (Part 2) that "no person shall here after take into his employment any mui taai." Provision was made for the retention of existing mui
London, Feb, 5, The Daily Chronicle states that claring that it should be lawful for the Government has decided to the Governor in Council to make postpone indefinitely the constric mui taut and the keeping of such have been started this year, thus regulations for the registration of tion of two cruisers that should
registers up to date.
Central District Properties.
It has been the Company's policy for some years to dispose of Its outlying properties and as oppor tunity offered to concentrate in the more central districts of the Colony the banking area, and, in pursuance which you will appreciate includes This part of the Ordinance has, forgoing all three cruisers of the of this policy, you will observe however, never been put into effect, one was abandoned last year-review exceeds that of the pre original 1928-20 programme, as
the sum livested in property at the close of the year under Sir Edward Stubbs, who was Governor at the time, stated In Council, on the second reading of the Ordinarice, "The matter of re- gistration is, to my mind, not of the first importance," and the Hongkong Government has appar ently been acting on that line of policy, for no attempt has yet been made to introduce registration.
Tho
Reuter.
vious year by some 21⁄2 million dollars,
Of this sum, over one million RUMOURS OF DEATH OF represents properties. previously
mortgaged to us and now acquired › TROTSKY.
on our account. I refer to ∙ (1) Powell's Building and (2) the block of buildings adjoining the DESCRIBED AS BASELESS BY burnt-out portion of the Hong-
MOSCOW.
On the Increase.
kong Hotel site, This largely ex- plains the reduced figure in the idea seems to havo
Berlin, Fob, 4.
balance sheet on account of It is learned from Reval, that Government to connect the eet been to
Rumours of the death of M. Tro-Amount advanced, on mortgage." interfere 48 little. Ruesta has invited the Estlioniantlement of the reparations ques-
tsky have been silenced hy a mes- as possible with an -established Government to sign at the same tion with the problem of the..
The balance conslets of the save from Moscow, describing the burnt-out afte mentioned above, section Lime.
evacuation of the Rhineland.
custom of a
of the report that Trotsky was drowned to which I will refer again,"re. was maintain-recently in crossing the Black Sea building two blocks of tenement The Soviet Government recently He replied "The Government community, but it
are equally desirous of securinged by the Anti-Mul Teal Society atto Turkey as bascicas, suggested to Poland qrid
houses in the Wanchai district, the Lithuania that they sign a pro- and an early evacuation of the that absence of registration sill in Russia.-Reuter.
The message states:-Trotsky is Penk Garage and structural Im- a final settlement of reparations their meeting in October last year tocol with Russia declaring the
provements and alterations to 17 Kellogg Pact already in force as
permitted breaches of the Ordin- ance, and that the number of mui,
several of our office properties to 11 between them, without waiting for.
bring them up to date. ratification of the Pact by all signatories.
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Negotiations have been going
Rhineland. There Bre great diMculties connected with both out that an agreement upon the questions, but there can be no
former would make casler an agreement about the latter. In In since early January, Poland this way, the two questions are 42 expressing a desire to consult inevitably connected, and His Latvia, Esthonia, Finland and Majesty's Government will lend Fall of wickels: 1 for 1 (Hobbs); Rumania before moving further. all the aid they can to a settle
-Reuter.
1ment of both.”—-British Wireless,
Bowling Analysis,
Extras
0 M.
R. W.
.87
G 02 1
Total (for 2 wickota)
42
10 77 4
16 130 5
12
3 32 0 12 for 21 (Sutcliffe),
trai in the Colony has actually in-blem faces the authorities in the creased since 1923,
enforcement of registration, inas much as the Chinese custom of adoption of girls by purchase so mui teat. closely resembles the acquisition of
The Anti-Mul Taal Society is now seeking to obtain the introdue in the Ordinance, as well as the tion of registration, as provided for
payment of wages to the girls, with
The local society is desirous that
The Hotel Site,
With regard to the burnt-out. sito, I would mention that during the early part of the year we were approached to obtain our views'
their attaining the age of 18. It in order to detect breaches of the or development of this property the granting of their freedom on adoptions should also be registered in connexion with the rebuilding is recognised that a difficult pro-law more easily..
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