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TOBACCO DUTIES AMENDED.

NEW HONGKONG LAW PROMULGATED.

NO MORE MANUFACTURING IN BOND ALLOWED.

THE SYSTEM REVISED. An important order has boon made by Is Excellency the Gov- ernor pulling immediately into force an Ordinance to amend the law relating to the taxation of to-

the Legislative Council'

Under this Ordinace, a new, ays ten of duty and a new seale of duties are introduced.

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THE ANTI-BRITISH THE WEST RIVER

AMERICANS.

STRONG CRITICISM BY A LEADING CANADIAN. ̧

PREMIER'S COUNSEL.

Ottawa, Feb. 12, The strong feeling of resent- mont in Canada againat unfaiz attacks on Great Britain by Americans, was manifest in the Lo-day, Canadian Cand the discussion on the Ad dress in Reply to the Speech from

the Throno.

the

PATROLS.

BRITISH CRAFT TO BE WITHDRAWN.

FINE RECORD OF SERVICE BY ARMED LAUNCHES.

INCIDENTS RECALLED.

BRITISH ROYAL

VISIT.

DUKE OF GLOUCESTER WILL BOARD “SUFFOLK “

ON TRIP TO JAPAN.

DEATH OF "LILY“ LANGTRY.

VICTIM OF INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.

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It was learned this morning| NOTORIOUS SOCIETY BEAUTY that H.R.H. the Duke of Glouces ter (Prince Henry), who is to head

AND ACTRESS. a mission to Japan to present the Order of the Garter to the Em- Ek, on of the LADY HUGO DE BATHE. H.M.S. Suffolk," now last stage of his Journey on her. County cruisers, and complete the

It is understood that the Duke of Gloucester is leaving England

There must be few, if any,

London, Feb. 12. steamers, plying on the West, River

The Evening News learns from Monte Carlo that Lady Hugo De Delta which have not been indebted at some time or other to the armed

Bathe (formerly Mrs. Lily Lang. He will, of course, pass died of influenza to-day, at her tance during the past five years. The three launches, the Nessus, On. through Hongkong, but at the villa slaught and Faulkner, are now be moment it is not known whether

Reuter understands that Lady ing temporarily withdraws from he will transfer this. Suffolk De Bathe had been ill at Nice service on the Delta where in recent at Hongkong or at Shanghul. It is with bronchitis for three weeks. years they have contributed consi-expected that he will transfer Lily Langtry became famous derably to the safety of river from the Morca about April 25 for her beauty through the length steamers,

but at the present time it is im- and breadth of Britain almost in possible to say whether the Suf- a single night, and she achieved folk will be in Hongkong at that great notoriety in, the latter part time.

of the nineteenth century for her exploits in high society.

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BRITISH TRADE

REVIVAL.

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..BIG SPURT.

THE ARCTIC VISIT TO EUROPE.

12 DEGREES OF FROST IN LONDON.

BIG CAMP OF GIPSIES FOUND FROZEN TO DEATH,

PIECEGOODS BETTER,

London, Feb. 12. British overseas trade has start- ed the New Year with a big spurt. The figures for January, given in the Board of Trade returns, are BLACK SEA UNDER ICE, higher both for imports and ex- ports than for many months past.

The imports are valued at £116,- 000,000, showing an increase of ber; and of $15,500,000, compared with the previous January.

London, Feb. 12. The terribly cold weather which swept over the British Isles yes-

and, indeed, seems to be getting. the Continent, continued to-day,

steadily worse."

The Address in Reply was ap- roved by the Commons without division after only five hours bacco, which in to be introduced in discussion, but in the course of Inunches for some form of assis. on March 22 by the P. and O: 8.8. try), the famous Victorian beauty. | £14,500,000, compared with Decem. terday with the bitter winds from

Conservative

Morea, debate, the Party leader, tho Hon. Mr. Bennett, alluding to the Bill, for the Ratification of the Kellogg Pact which is to come before the It is explained in the Objects House during the present Session, and Reasons altached to the Ord-ventured a strong protest against nance that the changes are recom- the violence of the anti-British mended by the Superintendent of attacks by influential Americana, Importa and Exports.

attacks which he characterised as being quite unjustified.

The main object of the Ordinance is to adopt in the case of tobacco manufactured in Hongkong the principle of taxation at the source, It is on this principle that the duty is collected in Great Britain on to- bacco manufactured there.

Henceforward, therefore, tobacco will no longer be manufactured in bond but there will be a flat rate on the imported raw lenf used in manufacture. The same rule of a flat rate is introduced in the case of all manufactured tobacco im- parted, in place of the present sys- tem of division into numerous classes, according to value for the purposes of taxation.

Higher Dulles Not Sought. It la no part of the policy of this Ordinance, according to the explanatory statement, to increase the rate of duty

on tobacco

He expressed the opinion, that, in ratifying the Pact, Cannda ought to voleo its resentment at such attacks,

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The Premier, Mr. Mackenzie King deprecated, eritielam of neighbouring people as

fraught with the possibility of mischief, and embarrassing to international amity.

He would prefer to endorse the belief of Sir Austen Chamberlian that the United States signed the Pact in good faith and Intended living up, to It-Reuter.

NARROW ESCAPE IN TRAIN SMASH.

The Hongkong Telegraph is in- debted to the local naval authorities for details of the work of the armed launches, the history of which goes back to 1921 when four vessels, the Hing Wah, Dom. done, Wing

Lee and Kwong Lee, were commis- loned with temporary crews from the China Squadron until special crews arrived from England on August 1,1924.

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Valuable Work.

The four launches were first em- ployed in convoying Hongkong steamers running to Lougeon. They also did valuable work in the prevention of the commandeering of river craft and in the rounding up of pirate launches. Each vessel was on patrol for about six days and made a weekly visit to Hong-

kong.

When the troubles of 1925 first made themselves apparent, the ships were employed as port guard

generally, though of course the EXPRESS CARRIAGES KEEP TO vessels at Wuchow, Samshuf and

Introduction of the new system necessarily involves individual variations of duty,

THE RAILS.

Kongmoon. At this time the Wöst River gunboata, also well-known to Hongkong, were at Shameen with crews landed for its defence. All

The proposed new Section 0 (2) TWO LOCO-MEN KILLED the Naval ships did useful work in

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maintaining wireless communica- tion as well.

The re-

is a temporary provision deallug with the tobacco present at the

London, Feb. 12. - commencement of the Ordinance

The four original vessels, the express passenger train on the lensed premises of the holders of manufacturer's licences, which left London last night for ing Wah, Dom Joan, Wing.Lee At present the duty on such to Glasgow, with a large complement and Kwong Loe, were withdrawn in bacco is not payable until of passengers, collided head-on 1925 as they were found to be too moval from the licensed premises, with a goods train in the early small to rentain up the river for the but under the new system duty is hours of this morning at a speed period required of them. Other ships were commissioned in 1925, payable on the importation of the of Afty-miles an hour.

The collision occurred just out-part cost being defrayed by the raw leaf and manufacture in bond will be no longer possible. aide Chesterfied in Derbyshire, the longkong Government.

The Superintendent is there nearest place being Alfreton, and evine ships, the Po On, Shun Lea Yore given authority to estimate the express was partially derailed, and Dom Joao, wore renamed the

The express driver and the fire-respectively.

Fanknor, Onslaught and Nessus the amount of tobacco on

any manufacturer's licensed premises man were missing for some time, the commencement of the hut rescue workers found their Ordinance, and to classify it as dead bodies in the debris of the unmanufactured tobacco or as engine which was 'a mass of wreck- manufactured tobneco. In the age. case of such manufactured to- None of the passengers bacco he will also estimate the injured, through the fortunate to-circumstance that the four lending weight of unmanufactured bacco from which, the manufactur-vehicles pulled by the express ed tobacco was produced, and the were parcel vans. All these were duty will be payable on the weight derailed by the smash, but the BO estimated.

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Prince Henry will be accompaui el by the Earl of Airlie, and one of His Majesty's Lords-in-Waiting,

Exports are £6,500,000 above those of December, at a total of thermometer dropped to 20 de In London last night, the nearly £67,000,000. The Increase compared with January, 1928, is twelve degrees of frost, and all green Fahrenheit, registering £7,000,000.

January's total of exports has day Lo-day there was practically been exceeded only once during the no improvement. The cold is still past two years, namely, in Novem-accentuated by the East wind. ber, 1927. Of the increase com- nearly a hundred passengers on The steamer "Peel Castle" with. pared with the previous January, no hoard was exposed for sixteen less than 2,000,000 is accounted hours for by articles wholly or mainly had to abunding nowstorm Yesterday from Douglas, Isle of Man, to Liverpool.

She was born in Jersey in Oct. 1852, as the daughter of the Very Rev. W. C. Le Breton, the Dean of | manufactured.

mammaer Jersey,

SERIOUS UNREST AT CHEFOO.

Crisis Expected In Next Few Days.

TROOP LOYALTY IN DOUBT.

According to naval wire- less messages received to-day, disturbances, broke out at Chefoa City yesterday morn- ing.

There la considerable unrest In the city, and Chinese mer- chants have begun to store their goods in foreign go downs as a precaution against possible disorder.

General Lui Chen-nien is said to be parleying with the Fourth Army, although it aroma doubtful whether nc- ceptable terms, will be tabled. It is rumoured that General Liu's troops may turn ́against him at any moment.

A crisis la expected within the next few days,

DESCONTAT

Her real names were Emollo Charlotte, but early in life she was nicknamed "Lily" and she became known later as the "Jersey Lily."

Jersey Romance.

She was brought up with hor six brothers as a regular tomboy and saw nothing of the great world until at an early age sho married Edward Langtry, an Irish landowner, who had come to the inlands in his yacht.

Her remarkable beauty at once secured her an entree into society. She was overwhelmed with *In- vitationa from distinguished

people, going through her first

The outstanding increases under this heading are:-Vehicles, in- cluding locomotives, ships and air- craft, £623,000; fron and steel and manufactures thereof, £1,103,000: cotton yarns and manufactures, £612,900.

The imports of raw cotton and £7,012,200, which suggests a revival cotton waste show an advance of of trade in Lancashire-Reuter and Birlish Wirelesa.

STILL ANOTHER BYE-ELECTION.

CONSERVATIVE M.P. FOR BATH "DIES.

London, Feb. 12. The death is announced of Cap-

Remarkable Hokk-Up. The vessel was due at the Liverpool landing stage at twe o'clock yesterday afternoon, but she did not arrive until the early hours of this morning,

that she had met with a most ex- traordinary difficulty. Tho cy gale froze the mixture of glycerine and water which covered her steering Toda when she was of the Far lightship at two o'clock in the afternoon, being already Into on account of the rough passage.

It was revealed on her arrival

The ship was completely help- Tess in the angry secs and anchor was immediately dropped, while the engineers dismantled the steering gear. This was later reassembled and the anchor was weighed and she resumed her trip

night.

Wreck may be saved.

season it is reputed, with only one evening gown, a simplicity which she soon forsook. Photographers besought her to sit for them and her beautiful features became so CAPT. C. T. FOXCROFT.to Liverpool shortly before mid. familiar to the public that she was mobbed wherever she went.

People stood on chairs at re- ceptions to see her pass and A toque which she had made by tain C. T. Foxcroft, the Conserva twisting up a plece of black velvet tive member for Bath, and sticking a quill through it This creates another bye-elec- appeared in every shop window tion, but it is, noteworthy that labelled "The Langtry Hat." Bath is a Then came "Langtry Shoes" which sent. are still worn. -.

Sudden Notoriety.

It now appears that the Belgian crosu-Channel steamer. "Villo de Liege" which was reported to have sunk within a fow hundred yards strong Conservative of the Dover landing stage, has not actually gone down though she At the last General Election, has been badly damaged. Captain Foxcroft poiled 16,067

The vessel appears to be rested votes in a three-cornered contest, on the bank, being fast on some This change from obscurity to the other figures being:-Mr. F. rocks. Rear Admiral Mende, Major Gen-notoriety came so suddenly that W Rafferty (Liberal), 8,800;

Only a small part of her hull eral Sir Hugh Elles, Mr. Hugh she was quite bewildered, while Captain W. B. Scobel (Labour), some of her mails were taken off cati be seen, but this morning Helped in Evacuation,

Lloyd Thomas, First Secretary in her husband was much annoyed. 3,914--British Wireless, They were vessels of about 3 His Majesty's Diplomatic Service, Millais, Poynter, Watts, Burne- The late Captain Foxcroft sat at low tide, and an attempt was hundred tons with a speed of from and Captain Howard Kerr, 11th Jones, Whistler and niany other for Bath from September, 1918, to to have been made later to get her nine to ten knots. They had pre-ilussars, Equerry in attendance artists painted her and Queen 1923, and has also held the seat off. The crew and passengers Victoria remained long after her since 1924. He was educated at were brought ashore safely by viously been employed in Hongkong on His Royal Highness.

the Dover motor-lifeboat. usual time at a drawing room in Etan and Magdalen College, Ox had suffered terrible hardships by when commissioned for service in A ferries or on harbour duty and

order to see the famous beauty, ford, and he saw service in the reason of the freezing of the. the Delta in the autumn of 1925

who was late in appearing. By European War,, He was for a this time she was In the set of time Parliamentary Private Secre-

which beapattered their the Prince and Princess of Wales tary to the Assistant Postmaster (later King Edward, and Queen General. Prior to being returned

European Tragedies. - Alexandra.) Oscar Wilde, who for Bath, he three times unsuccess- was one of her many admirers.fully contested the Frome division wrote a long poem to "The New of Somersetshiro. He was a wri- Helen," while his play "Ladyter of some note, Windermere's Fan" was componed for her. Among her many dis- tinguished friends were Ruskin and Gladstone.

they were employed as port guard- ships, and escorts for convoys, also passengers carriages behind kept assisting in evacuation work when

the rafls.

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AMERICAN CRUISER

BUILDING.

necessary.

OVERLOADING OF SHIPS.

B. O. T. SUGGESTIONS MEET WITH APPROVAL.

Cowboy Compliment.

LINDBERGH ENGAGED TO MARRY.

DAUGHTER OF AMBASSADOR

spray

clothing.

All

The experiences in Great Britain. however, are comparatively trivial in comparison with the Arctic conditions prevailing all over Europe, which have already been productive of many ghastly trage- dics.

It is reported from Warsaw, Poland, that many deaths have occurred from the cold, and news' capital

has just reached the

London, Feb. 12. The President of the Board following the boycott of 1925 and of Trade stated in the House 1926, the three armed launches of Commons to-day, that the again acted as convoy vessels for reply from the Shipowners' As- the Hongkong-Kongmoon steamers sociations to the memoranda on up to 1927. The convey system was overloading of ships, which was America vaid her a most roman- then superseded by the patrol sys: addressed to them by the Board, tic, compliment, Langtry, Texas, tem, and from 1927 until the pre-showed a considerable measure of being named after her by its

of a horrifying discovery by sent time the Inunches have been agreement with, the Board's aug-population, of devoted cowboys

forest guarda, who came across · f Mexico City, Feb, 12. employed on anti-piracy work in the gestions, and promised active co while Judge Itey Benn invited lie:

whole gipsy Land of thirty-four Mr. Dwight Morrow, the Ameri- operation and assistance...

to visit her town, By the time can Ambassador to Mexico, has who had encamped in a forcat near persons, men, women and children. Arrangements would be made as she was able to do so he was dead, announced the engagement of his Lublin. All had been frozen to soon as possible for discussing the but his successor presented to daughter, Anne, to Colonel Charlos matter with the representatives of Mrs. Langtry the revolver with Lindbergh, the famous Trans- Ansociations.-British Wireless. which Bean was "aided in finding atlantic nfrman..

Delta.

Drawback System,

Several of the passengers re- Their duties in connexion with Paragraph (n) of sub-section 3 ceived a shaking, but no-one acenis the anti-piracy patrol and as refn- of Section 6 of the principal Or-to have been hurt. The driver and forcements to the gunboats like dinance is repealed because ex- fireman of the goods train also H.M.S. Moth and others began in ported tobacco will no longer be escaped.Reuter and British Wire-1926. On the resumption of trade

loss, exempt from duty but will instead be entitled to A drawback. Through tobacco is not made absolutely exempt from duty as it might be, but if it ie duly handled In accordance with the principal Ordinance the effect of Section 11 of that Ordinance will be that the 'duty will never become payabla,| SMALL, AMOUNT FOR THIS Sub-section (4) of Section 6 of the YEAR RECOMMENDED, principal" Ordinance is repealed

The Commanding Officers. because it provided for the rate

Washington. Feb. 12. of duty to be paid on tobacco The Budget Bureau, to which the

The commanding Officers of the manufactured in the Colony in Naval Construction Bill has been four original vessels were Lieuten band.

submitted for estimates of mone- ant PA. Berry (Hing Wah), With regard to the duties pay-tary appropriations has recom- Lieutenant J.A.II. Hunter (Dom able under the new Ordinance, mended that a small amount be set Joan), Lieutenant M.A.0. Biddulph these are materially changed. aside in the current iscal year and (Win Lee) and Lieutenant N.L. They are applicable both to all that from G$45,000,000 to $50,000,- Dwane (Kwong Lee), tobaces Imported into the Colony 000 be appropriated in the fiscal after the coming into operation of year ending on June 30th, 1980 the Ordinance and also to all duti-Reuter's American Service. able tobacco already in the Colony. The duties are specifled both for unmanufactured and for manufac- Lured tobacco, a differentiation not proviously made.

The New Dutles.

In the case of manufactured to- bacco, the duty on cigars now be comos $1.50 per lb, as compared with previous rates which varied from $2.50 to 50 cents per lb., ac cording to the brand..

There is now to be a flat rate duty of 75 cents per 1b, on all (Continued on Page 11.)

FRIENDSHIP. PACT RATIFIED.

BOMBAY'S TROUBLES NEARLY OVER.

TO MEXICO.

some of his famous decisions and It will be recalled that Cof. keeping order west of the Pecos Lindbergh was entertained by the River. It also kept order in the Morrow family in Mexico City Jorney Lily Saloon."

during his goodwill flight round Rociety had reduced the Langtrys' South and Central America.

Reuter's American Service, resources to vanishing point and POLICE ROUNDING UP BAD eventually the bailiffs were put in

CHARACTERS.

www.

Meanwhile' mixing in high

The Faulknor has had four Com. manders during her period of ser vice. Lieutenant P. A. Berry was in command from the time of her com-

and the London house sold up. missioning until 1926, when Lieut.

It was Mrs. Labouchero who Commander T.A. Pigou took over

launched the beauty on a new Bombay, Fab. 12, until 1928. The next Commander

on which she There is every Indication that career, the stage, was Lieutenant S.A. Thomson, who was invalided last year and relieved the worst of the communal troubles made her first appearance as Kate:

Hardcastle in "She Stoops to Con. are aver, and the city is already quer" at a charity matinee at the by Lieutenant R. Alexander.

Lieutenant N. L. Dwane com-rapidly returning to normal.. manded the Onslaught in 1926 and The polles are busily engaged in Haymarket in 1881. By this time 1920, and Lieutenant D.W. Grahamrounding up the bad characters, aho had been engaged by the

who from then until 1927, when he was

liaye, used the

Bancrofta at a very high salary distur- Invalided. At the present time, the bunces as cloak for mischief, and and made her professional debut

in "Ours," The Chamber has adopted a Bill Onslaught is in command of already. 493 persons have been for the ratification of the Gracco Lieutenant G. F. Agutter. Italian Pact of Arbitration and Lieutenant J.A.H. Hunter, Com- The total casualties during the Friendship, recently concluded bemander of the old Dom Jono, took riots are placed as 137 killed, and tween Signor Mussolini and M. over H.M.8. Nessus in 1925, being 788 so seriously injured as to re- Venizelos-Router.

(Continued on Page 4). quire detention in hospital,

'M. VENIZELO'S GOOD WORK

CONFIRMED,

Athens, Feb. 12.

detained."

Řeuter.

Became Actress, In 1882 she toured the provinces with great success, especially in Manchester. Edinburgh and Glas

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WEEKLY AIRSHIP

SERVICE.

BETWEEN AUSTRALIA AND BRITAIN.

London, Feb, 12. Mr. W. M. Bruce the Australian Federal Premier, announces that he has given assurances of Australian co-operation In A weekly airship service between Great Britain and Australia, if thorough examination of relevant subjects reveals that Australia will derive advantages therefrom. --Brilish Wireless.

death.

Black Sea Frozen. '

A most extraordinary story also. comes to hand from Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, which is in the throes of the bitterest winter for over a century. It is learned from Burgas and Varna, the Bulgarian ports in the Black Sea, that the Black Ben is blocked with Ico and that all ports have been closed to navigation.

The ics extends far beyond sigh! of the shore and is so thick that skating is possible along the const. The scene is unprecedented since 1849,

The authorities are only matn- taining railway transport with the utmost difficulty and port with the in Bulgaria is feared.

West Baltic Mishaps,

From Berlin, It is learned that the ice had held up over thirty steamers in the West Balile. Some (Continued on Page 14):