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HEFSATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1929. H+AE

BIG BATTLE NEAR A BANK COMPANY'S LENINGRAD TRIAL BLACK SNOW FALLS WUCHOW HELPS

CHEFOO,

REBEL TROOPS ROUTED BY NATIONALISTS.

HEAVY CASUALTIES AMONG EX-BANDIT'S ARMY.

FAVOURABLE

Chien-nien,

AFFAIRS.

CONCERN IN WHICH HONG- KONG IS INTERESTED.

RUMOURS DISPELLED.

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Londos, Fab. 214, Rumours regarding' the affairs of the Banza Italo-Britannica, In which the Hongkong and Shang- hal Banking Corporation has an

SENSATION,

MANAGER OF BRITISH

FIRM CHARGED.

FRESH ACTION ON BRIBERY CASE COLLAPSE.

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IN EUROPEI

DUE TO PRESENCE OF VOLCANIC DUST.

COLD WAVE RETURNS.

London, Feb. 22. While the thaw reigns over Bri- tain, other parts of Europe ara less fortunate,

Heuter's

correspondent:

at

Intercot, have called forth an ex-TRUMPED-UP CHARGE? Athens reports that there la a planatory statement.

severo snowstorm all over Greece, and many country districts are threatened with a food shortage, munications. owing to the Interruption of com-

THE MINERS.“

FOREIGN COMMUNITY

SUBSCRIBES.

OUTPORT INTEREST IN LORD MAYOR'S FUND.

NEWS.

This banking institution is an

DISTRESS EVIDENCE. Chofoo, Fab. 22. Buxiliary of the British-Italian Fighting on a large scale has Banking Corporation, which was

Riga, Fob. 22. broken out in the region of Chefoo founded in 1916 with British Gov-developments in Leningrad follow A sensation has been caused by

tion of $127 to the Telegraph Fund Particularly welcome is a doná-

between the revolting, troops, ernment co-operation.

ing the fallure of the case formerly under the command of Following the rumours, Reuter against the Latvia manager of a

So far, 0,500,000 drachmas, have

for the rellef of distress amongst tionalist army under General Liu banks have made arrangements to that charges have been trumped Southern Greece. This sum in- morning, Chang Chung-chang, and the Na- la informed that the London British concern, it being allead been subscribed for the relief of workless British miners and their sufferers from the floods in families which comes to hand this Some smart skip-onsure due fulfilment of all the up in order to put an end to the cludes 1,000,000 drachmas from raishes have taken place, and the Banca Italo-Britannica's engage firm's activities." fighting has been developing in menta and the uninterrupted con-

the National Bank of Greece, 500,- John Wilding, of Wuchow, being This sum is sent by Mrs. II. St. favour of Liu Chien-nien, though tinuation of its business.

By virtue of a secret process of 000 drachmas from M. Venizelos, he is heavily outnumbered.

The Corporation's stock in most manufacture, which the local Router's correspondent at Sofla

the proceeds of a collection mado ly held by British banks, including the Hongkong man, has steadfastly refused to returned, the temperature being community at that port. In ack- and Empire manager, a Latvian named Volf-reports that the cold wave has amongst the very small foreign and Shanghal Banking Corporation, divulge to the Soviet, the British 26 degrees below zoro (Fahren nowledging this splendid contri- the National Bank of India and concern, the Morgan Crucible Com-heit) in some places, the Standard Bank of South pany, has successfully, carled on

bution, we should like to place on Africa-Reuter.

Black snow has fallen, due to record our appreciation of this business at a branch in Leningrad volcanic dust, at Rustchuk.

latest indication of the interest. In spite of the Soviet economic

which outport residents are taking policy.

in the Lord Mayor's Fund.

He has only 7,000 troops against 26,000 under the control of the

rival lenders.

At daylight on Thursday, morn- ing, the main army of Liu clashed with a large force under the com- mand of Huang Feng-chi, the for- 'mer bandit, at Kaotungchi, west

of Fushan City.

Heavy Losses:

The engagement was fierce,

HINDU RIOTS OCCUR AT BANGALORE.

OVER AGAIN.

Bitter Press Campaign. Ever since the Government Cruelblo Works were started at Luga in 1924, the Soviet Preas

though comparatively brief, re- CHILD KIDNAPPING RUMOURS has been engaged in a bitter cam- sulting in the rout of the enemy, who left over 200. killed on the fold. Three hundred prisoners, about 1,000 rides and ofteen machine-gans fell into the hands of the Nationalist forces.

General Llü Chien-alon person- ally directed the fighting, and his casualties did not exceed one hundred.

Four_motor-trucks containing wounded arrived to-day from Kangyu, twenty miles to the west of the previous engagement, which Liu Chien-nion is reported to have recaptured on following up the de- feated enemy.

Base at Ninghai. Owing to the favourable strate- gic position offered by Ninghai, Liu Chien-nien has made his base there, accumulating large quanti tics of stores,

Both the Chinese and the for- eign communities at Chefoo are calm, and slightly less approhen- alve than yesterday,

Foreign Readiness.

· The foreign community is pro-| ceeding with plans for concentra- tion in the event of looting.

H.M.S. Foxglove, and three Japanese destroyers are now in port, and the US. light-cruiser Trenton is expected by Sunday from Manila.-Reuter.

A naval wireless message states that all is quiet in Chefoo. The message adds that fighting took place on Friday morning about twelve miles west of Chefoo. The result of the fighting is not known but it is reported that General Liu was successful.

Shanghai, Feb. 22.

It is locally reported that former Generale of Chang Chung-chang aro in control of Lungkow, Lai- yang, Pingtu, Klaochow and Changkin, while Chang Ching- former commander of уво, в Shantung border forces is pro- ceeding to Tsinan to obtain sup- plies-Reuter.

Rumours Denied.

Nanking, Feb. 22.

It is denied in official circles that the departure of Feng Yu- halang signified anything like acute differences of opinion among the political and military chiefs

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Bangalore, Feb. 22.

A serious, situation may be developing here, following the lines of the Bombay troubles, rumours have been put into cir| culation regarding alleged kid- napping of children;"

Excitement is spreading all over the city, and Hindu mobs have been assaulting alleged kidonp- pera.

The police are making vigorous efforts to prevent disturbances, and two police-officers have been: Injured in clashes with the crowds.! Nine of the alleged kidnappers have been sent to hospital after being attacked by the Hindus.

Reuter,

DARING · ROBBERY. AT ESSEN.

MINE CASHIERS HELD UP FOR 26,000.

Berlin, Feb. 22.

A daring daylight hold-up by five masked men, who got clear away with £6,000, the wages of miners, is reported from Essen.

With remarkable daring, the men entered the premises of the Matthias Stinnes Mines at Essen, having obviously made careful preparations, held նր three employees of the company in the courtyard and forced them to part with bags containing £6,000, which they were carrying.

robbers made a break for freedom, Having secured their booty, the and got clear away in a waiting motor-car. Reuter.

FIERCE ATTACK ON KELLOGG PACT.

IRISHI FREE STATE AGREES TO RATIFY.

London, Feb. 22. The Irish Free State Parliament to-day authorised the ratification of the Kellogg Pact for the re- nunciation of war, by 83 votes to 60.

A number of Republicans fierce here. Suggestions to the contrary, ly attacked the Treaty, describing

It la alleged, were deliberately put it as an "open, manifest lie" and

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GENERAL BOOTH HAS RELAPSE.

Neposed Salvation Army Leader Not So Well,

SOME ANXIETY FELT,

London, Feb. 22.

It is authoritatively stated that Bramwell Booth, the de- posed leader of the Salvation Army, has shown signs of a relapse.

The General is not nearly Ho well and some anxiety is now felt.

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Booth,

Commander Eva mado a request to see her brother to-day, but this was _refused-Reuter.

A report from Moscow states that two ice-breakers have left Leningrad to assist in excavating about 100 ships struck in the ice on the Kiel Canal-Reuter.

HARWICH-ANTWERP SERVICE.

TO BE RESUMED AS FROM MONDAY.

London, Feb. 22. The London and North-Eastern Railway announce that the Har- wich-Antwerpoprics bich was interrupted owing to its "in the Scholat, will he resumed: as from Monday night next, but while there is ico in the Scheldt steamers will proceed betygen Flushing and Antwerp odly during day. light hours.

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戶口 In accordance with our usual "No professional boxer should custom of publishing weekly at marry," says a sports writer. least one piece of alarming news, Come to think of it, one ring is we learn that the Colony's recent- quite enough to worry about. ly-acquired tame Star humourist has just remembered a really new We understand that an owner of story, which ha intends to rolate a ten-passenger car is allowed to at the first opportunity.

count his pedestrians on the decimate system.

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"Sarcastic":-The chief days

Possibly the Morning Star was

on which Scotsman calabrate ars Now Year's Day, Burns Auniver- sary, Hallowe'en, St. Andrew's Day rising when it hit a junk. and pay day...

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Overheard at a Hongkong bridge

We trust that Hongkong news party:-"Ho's the sort of follow correspondents will make it per- who calls a spade threo spades."-

ᄆᄆ fectly clear what kind of tanks

British soldiers are now: being we now have on our waterfront.

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taught elementary science. It is "Fanny:"--Please do not strain always useful to know the boiling a cricketer, not a tree. yourself. Larwood is the name of point of a sergeant major.

□ □ A Frenchman who speaks nine lady preventing her from feeling who speaks three. MacWhirter Polse is that quality in a stout languages has married a Kussian embarrassed while attempting to says

that's About the right pass through a Ferry turnstile, handicap.

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The Daily Press Diary of Events A. Kowloon compradore was referred to the "Y.M.C.A. Lady robbed the other day. There's Holphers annual general meeting," something to Emerson's law of Helpher leather!

compensation after all,

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So far, the Telegraph has cabled Home £200 to the Mansion House, and besides the contribution from Wuchow another anonymous, dona-week's weather tion for $20 comes to hand to-day showed Eng. Amounts so far received are: land to be the " Already acknowledged....$2,523. Land of the

Freeze. & 10/-

Germany now

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Wuchow Foreign Community 127. A.B.C.

20. exports

Afty million mouth...

to

Total ........10/- and $2,670. | organe, yearly.

Something Value of the Fund.

blow about. That the very bost usa la being 口口 made of the money subscribed to A Paris tele the Lord Mayor's Fund was in gram says three dicated recently in a statement on specialists have the subject In the House of Compronounced ex- mens by Lord Eustace Perry, the President of the Board of Educa- Senator Klotz sane. No. clots on the brain.

These oon- 1dence trieka suggest that 1. man is a sold as he feels..

It doesn't follow that Jack Tar is fast becquso he be-

man went on a

longs to the

fleet.

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A. Shanghai

"These talking pictures are wonderful?

diet of garlic to

"Yes, but I'll bet what we hear isn't what they really any."

ward off 'fu.

He- acbloved

100 per cent, isolation.

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tion. Departures from Liverpool

He stated that the local com- Street Station, London, will be at mittees formed in connexion with 8.30 each week-day evening, the the Fund wore undertaking the dis-

A reclamation scheme has been steamers leaving. Parkeston Quay tribution, and the members of started in Greece.

Now Heng-

at 10.10 in the evening and ar-these committees were in close kong may be able to dispose of its riving at Antwerp at ten o'clock touch with the distress. Lord surplus stock at Morrison Hill, the following morning.-British Eustace added that he was antie- Wireless.

fled with the character of the machinery, and he believed it had been set up on the best possible lines..

CANADA'S RELATIONS WITH SOVIET.

Many women are two-faced, but

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not worry.

one is just under the other,

"Obscure!"-Do Oval knobs on the knees are not hereditary.

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The Bateman cartoon is yet to

An article in the Post deals with "Soda Consumption." We un- derstand that it is didcult to ar rive at exact figures because of be drawn depicting the Kowloonite Some idea of the need for help the tendency to repeat when mixed asking the Peakite for a match. can be gained from the fact that with bad whisky..

00 in the West Riding of Yorkshire the Government to suppress the LABOUR MEMBER SUGGESTS out of work, besides thousands of more than half of the world's oil." golf socks he made a hole in one. Auntio Caustic, she says the alone there are nearly 40,000 minera New item: "America produces timo MacWhirter wore his

paign against Morgan'a, urging

firm,

Recently Volfman, and four other employees of Morgan's, were arrested on a charge of bribory.

The case has been before the Leningrad courts for several days, but the prosecution collapsed yesterday for lack of evidence.

RESUMED TRADE.

children badly shod and insufficent-We suppose she will castor sur- ly clad. The recent stoppage of plus on troubled waters. another colliery in the district has thrown another 2,000 or 8,000

new

Considerable talking will en- evitably turn a cold into influenza, ២ ៨

Since the departure of the Ottawa, Feb. 22.

tourist ships, the Spanish shawl The question of the resumption of trade with the Soviet was raised miners out of work, and It has respondent who points out that enquiries.

Our thanks are due to the cor- market is easier, with no forward by Mr. Woodsworth (Lab.) at been officially stated that there are the engagement of Helen Wille question-time in the Hound of in this area many extreme cases was no doubt a love match. Commons to-day,

of poverty and privation. The questioner uaked whether

O D Upon the judge, giving his de- the Canadian Government had con- being done as a result of the money are told will be bonnie-blu, fan- Much valuable relief work is Popular colours for spring wo cision, the. Prosecutor unexpected-aidered the possibility of officially subscribed to the Lord Mayor's dango, prisoners, involving "economic Russia. ly raised new charges against the resuming trade relations

foliage and rosand. with Fund, including the feeding of Colickie-green, we understand, espionage."

children and the provision of boots, will not run. Mr. Mackenzie King, the Premier, anid that the matter was ́“A Pitiful Sight.” being considered.--Reutor.

The Court adjourned for further investigations and the defendants, in the meantime, are being kept in custody..

"Economic Espionage."

Later. Following the collapse of the trial of Volfman, the Tcheka at Leningrad made an announcement that it had discovered an anti- Soviet plot engineered by Volfman and his chief accomplices, Brylkin and Suraki.

AMERICA'S LATEST

OBLIGATION.

ISLANDS OF SAMOA GROUP CEDED.

The man charged with the A Durham magistrate, in the Kennedy Road murder, who com- course of a recent appeal, spoke of plained of losing his hair, might the unhappy lot of many families easily, have lost his head, in the Durham colliery districte. He said:"I have boen greatly This week's simile:As dificult worried over these poor people. as trying to sell a muzzle to They have been out of work four Kowloon Tong dog-owner. years and in the last week or two

00 any have had their dole stopped.

It seems to have been definitely There is place of worship, and established that Mrs. Baker Eddy minister or Christian worker they at no time after adopting Chris.

never see. Their children are a

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Washington, Feb, 22. President Coolidge has signed pitiful sight, half naked and less an Science made use of drugs, the Bill confirming the cession of | than half fed.”.

axcept when necessary. Volfman will be tried on the islands of Tutuila and Manua, Just before the war the Queen

England's Aretic apoll brought in for which, under the Soviet legal group, to the United States, charge of "economic espionage" and certain others of the Samoan visited: the county of Durham and code, the penalty is death.

was shown over some of the aged much hard cash for the Telegraph's The Bill also provides that the miners' homes by the late John Miners' Relief Fund. We trust The Tehoka has also re-alirm- President may appoint six Com- Wilson, member of Parliament for will continue to trickle in with

out by interested parties with the an act of universal hypocrisy.ed the previous charge of bribery.missioners, two of which will be that particular area. It is one of the thaw.

object of creating a fear of uncer-Reuter.

tainty.

Lu Chung-in, the Vice-Minister

of War, and Y. L. Tong, the Vico- NEW. U.S. WARSHIPS:

Miniator of Foreign Affairs, who are both in close touch with Feng, are, contrary to rumours, still at Nanking and are remaining there. They deny they have the inton- tion of leaving the city-Reuter.

Cliangsha Tighting. Naval wireless messages received from Changaha this morning state that fighting is reported to have broken out between the Nanking and Hankow factions in the neigh bourhood of Changsha,

*All trains on the Hankow-Chang- sha line have been commandeered for troop transport during the last

LARGE SUM VOTED. BY THE

SENATE..

Latvian Minister's, Action.

M. Ozols, the Latvian, Minister at Moscow, has been attending the trial of his compatriot, and it is understood authoritatively that he is taking atopa to have Volfman, Washington, Feb, 22.

who is a Latvian citizen, though The Senate to-day passed a Bill employed by a British firm, re- providing for the allocation of leased from prison, pending the $12,370,000 to enable a start to ba made on the construction of the re-opening of the trial. new cruisers.--Reuter.

Chlefs of Eastern Samoa, and re- the tragle anomalies of the coal commend auftable legislation by position that such veterans now States for the territory of that condition of life, than thousands of the Government, of the United find themselves in a more stable island.-Reuter's American Service, the young and able-bodied members

of the industry.

ROYAL WEDDING.

NEXT WEEK'S CEREMONY AT OSLO.

London, Feb. 22. It is announced that H.R.H, the tion will guarantee the appearance Duke of York will represent the Prince of Norway and Princess.

He has Informed the Soviet nŭ- thorities that the Latvian Lega-

ostensibly against bandits. They of Volfman in court when the King at the wedding of the Crown

have attacked and driven Lu Ti-trial is.re-opened.

ping out of Changsha however, It la learned, however, that up Martha of Sweden at Dalo next

The Kwangat faction is now re-to the present, M. Ozols has remonth. ported to be in control of the city.ceived no answer to his com- He will be accompanied by the So far there has been no intermunication in connexion with the Duchess of York--British Wren

two days, troops movements being ference with foreigners.

*'affair.--Reuler.

less..

I enclose herewith the sum

of $....

as a donation to

the British Miners stress

Fund.

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Address

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The Prince of Wales tramped for six miles round the British Industries Fair. It is rumopred he was searching for a mechanical. throwing-horse.

"The reason why we lost seems to have been partly that we played wore then Manila but much more that. Ianila played better than we did" says the D.P. golf expert.

In other words, we shouldn't have been so bad if we'd have been better than they were worse,

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Some of these local folk who think they're wits are only half so.

According to the DP, Western Street water tank is in Wanchal. What is the point? West Point,

We notice that "old vices" are to be disposed of at a coming auction of oval stores, tag. understood that "Crown and An- chor" is not affected.

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"A smart costume which I saw

says a fashion writer, "must have what about extending the move a lady wearing the other day,"

Talking about disbandment, had fully a hundred buttons on ment to those uniformed chocolate- it." By the time she fastened sellers at the Theatre? thom all, she must have been quite done up.

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News Item:Tennis trousers for women are the latest, craze." An educationist says that The deuce they are! A motoring will lighten the work of achool teachers. It will probably' A notice appearing in the China reduce the number of pupils, If Mail was signed. "Harold To. nothing else.

Creasy." Departmental camera. dorie1

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. . Newspaper heading.. "A Now Uso for Temples." Wo presume this The best schoolboy orator... in refers to those spaces with an Illinois Is to be sont on a absence of grey matter behind tour of South America next sum them.

"mor. And just after Mr. Hoover ..::

has gone to so much trouble to The A.D.C. Show is now approy win South America's goodwill,

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