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SHOCKING HANOI MURDER.

FRENCHMAN KILLED

IN THE STREET. ·

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SHOT DEAD UNDER AMAZING CIRCUMSTANCES.

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三拜禮七十月二英港香 E, FEBRUARY

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* BINGEN COPY 10 ON-

STRONG BELGIAN PROTEST.

UTRECHT PAPER “NOTÉÐ FOR ITS HOSTILITY.".

TREATY A FORGERY.

Brussels, Feb. 26,- Strong indignation was voiced in the Belgian Chamber to-day when the subject of the alleged secret France-Belgian military al-

SURETE'S ACTIVITIES. lance was under discussion,

The shockingly

cold-blooded

murder of a Frenchman, a ce

which has attained the nature of cause celebre in France Indo-China, has stirred the French community in that Colony to the highest pitch

of indignation,

home from a visit to a friend.

The Foreign Minister, M. Hy. mans, replying to interpellations in regard to the Dutch news-

sues.

.

LAND SPEED RECORD.

THE HONEYMOON FURTHER TRIBUTE ATTACK ON

TOR. A. F. MURDER.

ASTOUNDING STORY OF

CONFESSION.

STRANGE DEVELOPMENT IN CHUNG MIAO CASE.

vengeance

HISTORIC ACHIEVEMENT ́ ́ IN

·KABUL EVACUATION.

MAGNIFICENT WORK.

London, Feb. 20. Earl Winterton; Under-Secretary for India, stated in the House of Commons to-day that be was glad to say the evacuation of the last

the British Legation at Kabul was successfully achieved yesterday.

MAJOR H. O. D. SEGRAVE TESTS HIS CAR.

"GOLDEN ARROW" DOES 180 M.P.H. ON 3 THROTTLE,

THE SILVER ANNIVERSARY BUICK.

In the 1929 Modals (Buick's Silver Age niversary), Balck has recognized the important part which riding comfort, a term relatively unknown until a few years ago, plays in owner satisfaction. There are 17 NEW factors which-make the 1979 'Bulak the most comfortable car, made,

THE UHAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.

-Taishons Central F246 së 1267.

33 Wong Hei Chung ............... Happy Valley Roud.

PARLIAMENTARY CARICATURE.

STRONG CRITICISM OF THE GERMAN SYSTEM."`·

MINISTER OUTSPOKEN.

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THE MINERS FUND GROWING.

THE $3,000 MARK NOW PASSED.

WE FINE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM Berlin, Feb. 26.

TAIKOO AND K.Ç.C.

A grave indictment of the Par Handentary syabon In Germany was made to-day by Dr. Stresemann, tho 'German Foreign Minister, at

mittos of the Gorman People's Party.

remaining members of the staff of REAL TRY NEXT WEEK.a mooting of the Executive Com- STILL MORE PROMISED,

A BIGAMY MOTIVE?

We have pleasure to-day in the Daily Express

Much interest will be aroused by Recently

The meeting was convoked in acknowledging further donations Sir Francis Humphrys, British

an announcement made to-day that printed an extraordinary story at- paper's accusation, and the publi-ributing the Lakeland murder to Minister, in paying a warm tri-Major H.O.D. Segrave, the famous order that the Committee might to the British Miners Distress bute to the remarkable smoothness racing motorist, will make hia of discuss the possibility of forming Fund, which brings the total so ention of a so-called secret docu the

of 21 Chinese

and efficiency with which the Air cial attempt to recapture the world's a "big coalition" Government in far received by the Telegraph to. ment, denounced the document "long" in America who had a

grudge against the vietini's father: Force had carried out their ardu-land-speed record for Great Bri-the Reich, independent of what- well over $3,000.

nus undertaking had telegryphed:tain at Daytona Beach on Marchever Government rules Prussia.

Hending to-day's. list comes a published as a forgery.

He said that it was published by A still more extraordinary story,

cheque, for $320, sent by Mr. R. K. Dr. Stresemann declared the Duncan on behalf of a number of newspaper noted for its hosti-allegedly revealing motives under "The Royal Air Force performed Gth, that is, Wednesday next week.

J historie achievement. They On February 9th, the eve of the lity against Belgium, and sug-lying the crime has reached the

It is disclosed in a British Wire Parliament had become a carica- the members of the staff of Taikoo Chinese New Year a wealthy gested that it was prompted by a People from a correspondent In here comes without a son in 62 less message received this morning ture and had an entirely falso Idea Dockyard. It is the desire of the

Chung acroplanes, a single mis that Major Segrave took his great Frenchman, named Razin, was wish to prevent fresh negotiations Paris. For this, crime

nation. Commenting on present this sum shall be car-marked for he was boarding his car to return the settlement of outstanding is believed to be the dead girl's bus-cember 23rd, over a mountainous Arrow" out for a trial spin yester anomalies, he said that the com- the relief of distressed miners in shot dead in a street at Hanoi as between Holland and Belgium for Mian, a young Chinese, who was hap to the passengers, since De- Napier-engined car "The Golden of its responsibilities towards the subscribers that fifty per cent. of band, was hanged at Strangeways country in the depth of winter at day, and it is significant that he at- an average height of 10,000 feet. Since then the best minds of they

the special M. Hymans added that the 1920 Gaol, Manchester, According to Political Bureau and of the Surrle)

on his first test on three-quarterier popularity by promises of mili- forwarding $160 to difficult, and, during the last two throttle.

ards of marks for social services | Fand opened by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Sir Alexander service Lave been exercised in an agreement, which was submitted the Paris revelations, Chung Miao The conditions have always been the speed of 180 miles an hour petition among the many parties Scotland, and we are accordingly days, almost insuperable, on ac-

Stevenson. The remainder will go endeavour to bring to book two to the League of Nations, harmo- was a bigamist.

The People's Paris correapon-count of a heavy fall of snow.".

to the Lord Mayor of London's Annamites who were seen hurried- nixed with the Locarno Treaty

Earl Winterton paused to ob- ly to drive away from the spot in and contained nothing contrary to dent writes:-,

To-day a sad faced and broken

Fund. the Lengue of Notions Covenant, a car after the murder.

The agreement was supplement-woman revealed to me the truth serve: "I am sure the House will Chauffeur Eyes Witness,"

ed by understandings between the about the murder for which Chung endorse this tribute."

Mino was hanged in Strangeways General Staffs of the two coun- An eye-witness of the crime was tries, solely aimed at the defence Gaol. Manchester, a few days ago the native chauffeur of the mur- of the country.

The revelation will come as a sur dered man. He stated, in In- terrogation by police officials, thated the hope that the Dutch Gov-student was the victim of a mis- The Foreign Minister express-prise to those who have believed that the young Chinese law Razin, earlier that afternoon, had visitala Indy friend in the Route ernment would collaborate with

carriage of justice. de Hue.

the Belgian Government in estab lishing the true facts.

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At about 6 o'eloek, as dusk was

he stepped aeroas the footpath to wards his car, a man approached and handed him an urgent letter which Bazin was anked to open and read. While thus engaged, Bazin stood unconscious of the

A resolution was carried ex-

Mother's Statement,

must cease.

approach of a second man, and HUNAN ISSUE MAY BE woman. I came here in the belief vailing, accompanied by heavy ing. the first motorist to exceed should mover his connexion with Jon Bohalf of the Fund amongst

consequently, was not prepared for

an attack,

a re-

The assailant drew out volver and shot Bazin la the chost. Both men then started to make n hurried exit from the scene, but in order to make sure of the mur- derous work, one of them return- ed hnd fired two more ahola Into

form the recumbent

of the victim.

SETTLED.

LU TI-PING'S ARRIVAL IN

NANKING.

armour

HURRICANE'S TOLL IN U.S.A.

ganisation. The Club hopes to forward a further cheque later on,

A collection is also being made Our thanks for this most welcome subscription are horeby tendered,

members of the Institution of Engineers and Shinhuilders, and We are informed that the protéèda will in due course be forwarded to the Telegraph for transmission to the Mansion House togather with monies subscribed from othor sources. So far the amount collected by the Institution totals $240. Members are to be com- mended on helping the cause.

Subscriptions so far received by the Telegraph are:

Alrendy acknowledged .....$2,775,

& 10/- Taikoo Dockyard Staff ... 320. K.C.C. Members

Depends on Weather. The German People's Party has The result of the test increases submitted a motion that no new

This handsome gift from Taikoo the confidence that this unique car, expenditure shall be sanctioned in the first in the history of motoring the Budget Estimates without the is much appreciated, and in aond- He continued to real the telegram, to be ice-cooled, will establish a new consent of the Government and ing it Mr. Duncan anys it is for

warded "with best wishes for the which ran: "In the early stages speed record. The present record the Reichsrat. of the operations the aircraft stands at just over 207 miles an Following recent allegations, further success of your Fund."

is held by Mr. Ray the leaders of the Nationalist Steel K.C.C. Contribution. which first established touch with hour, and the Legation were repeatedly Ketch, an American.

Helmet organisation has submit- under fire, and one machine was The Golden Arrow is designed ted to President Hindenburg a Amongst to-day's, donations is a shot down over Kabul. The pilot, for a much greater speed, and statement of the policy and aims cheque for $75 received from Mr. fortunately, was unhurt, and had weather permitting, it is expected of the organisation, which they C. J. Roe, Hon. Secretary of the since rendered invaluable assis- that the American official record

Government but the ing sums contributed by members publican My informant was the mother tance to Sir Francis Humphrys. Will be greatly exceeded on Wednes-declare does not oppose the Re- Kowloon Cricket Club, represent- falling. Bazin came out of the pressing confidence in the Gev of the executed man, who came all The Royal Air Force personnel day next. The car, probably the house to return for dinner. Aernment and endorsing its protest. the way from China to Europe in have flown over the wild border most original ever built was de Parliamentary system which they of that well-known sporting or-

The only dissentients were four the belief. that her son was in-country unharmed.

signed by Captain I. S. Irving, hope to reform by logal moans, flemish-Frontists and a Commua-nocent and with the object of try

who was responsible for the gigan President Hindenburg has ac- ing to save him from the scaffold. severity of the weather conditions grave claimed the honour of be that he sees no reason why:

"Recently owing to the extremo the Sunbeam in which Major Fecordingly informed the Cabinet ist Deputy-Reuter.

"In me" she said, "su BCG & sadly dalilusioned and broken and the very low temperature pre-

the Steel Helmets,-Router. that my son was innocent. I go squalls of snow, the task of all 200 miles, an hour on land,. Remarkable Features. back with the heavy burden of concerned has been rendered ex

Ila features include: Icé cool- knowledge of his guilt hanging ceptionally difficult and dangerous over me. I have no reproaches in the air and on the ground. One for him, for God knows he must machine made a forced landing ing; Independent drive to each of have been sorely tempted to do through the engine actually freez- the rear wheels with the different. gear box; telescopic this thing, but I cannot allowing whlist in Hight. Its two occu-falin. the stories about the intervention of pants for some days were in the sights for the driver;

hands of tribesmen, although sub-plating for the driver, so that if others in the crime to pass with-

sequently successfully evacuated the car turns over his body can- out stating the truth.

not touch the ground; clutch opera- by aircraft."-British Wireless.

ted on the Dewandre vacuum prin-

New York, Feb. 26. ciple so that the engine helps to

The hurricane which developed in disengage the plat members.

Mississippi and commenced its car- Perhaps the biggest problem eer by wrecking the little township which faced Captain Irving was to of Duncan, has swept through four keep the great 900 horse-power States,

Tennessee, Mississippi, Napier engine cool. The engine Louisiana, and Texas, leaving death is similar to that which won the and destruction in its wake. Schneider Trophy for Britain and

Hundreds of casualties are re that used in the machine which,

Totul.10/- and $8,201 piloted by Flight Lieutenant ported, a large number of people

Family's One Bed D'Arcy Greig, recently captured having lost their lives. the unofficial world's flying Special trains are now taking Reports to hand from Home In- speed record.

doctors and nuracs into the devant-dicate the hardships suffered by In the ordinary course of events,ated areas, and emergency hospitals many of the miners and their a car engine has always been cool will be improvised for the accom- familles In the North of England. ed either directly by air or through modation of the injured.

in a radiator: but water cooled

The cyclone more than once to obtain these colossal speeds an turned on its tracks, and wreaked ordinary radiator offers tremendous considerable havoc among already wind resistance.

damaged premises. Reuters The "Goldon Arrow" has a | American Service. suppress this trafle and to pre-beautifully stream-lined body, only vent compulsory labour from deve two feet wide, and to place a radi loping into conditions analogous to ator anywhere on this of sufficient size to cool the engine would pro- slavery.-Router.

bably reduce the speed of the car quite appreciably.

Escape in a Car.

Bazin's The chauffeur, and friend, who had accompanied him out of the house, were powerless to intervene. The shots were drowned in the noise of cracker. firing occurring on the Chinese "New Year's eve, and the assailants escaped, unchallenged, in a wait- ing car.

Shanghai, Feb. 27. Lu Th-ping, the former head of the Hunan Government, who was recently deposed by General Ho Chien and his supporters, has arrived in Nanking and reported on the Hunan situation to the Central Government.

It is persistently rumoured that a settlement of the issue will be effected shortly.-Renter.

MORE UNEMPLOYED,'

SLAVE TRAFFIC IN AFRICA.

U.S. SIGNS CONVENTION FOR SUPPRESSION.

1

Murderer's Legal Wife..

"First of all I want to tell you what has never before been dis- closed; that my son was already married happily when he met the lady he was accused of killing, and that in European law as well as in the law of our own land he for was liable to be prosecuted bigamy. It was thin more than anything else that forced him to

Washington, Feb. 26. commit the crime for which the The U. S. Senate has ratified the Bazin was a wealthy business

Inw bas exacled its terrible Convention signed-pt Geneva in man, with a reputation for busi-

DUE TO SEVERE WINTER penalty.

September, 1926, for the suppres- noss efficiency, among his na-

WEATHER. ·

"The news of his marriage slon of the slave trade. tionals, and the news of his un-

was a terrible shock to us, but we The Secretary of State, Mr. Limely death created n profound

London, Feb. 26. sensation. What at first appear-

assumed that he had not really Kellogg issued a statement regard- The total number of unemployed married the girl, but had taken ing the Convention, stating that ed to be a mystery insofar as the motives for the crime were con- in Great Britain on February 18th her as a concubine, which is per- certain territories in Africa still cerned, has been cleared up with was 1,458,000. This was 116,425 mitted by our laws and customs, have slave traffic.

more than the week before and Immediately the newa came, his The Convention is designed to the recovery of the letter.

legal wife decided to set out for Its contents, which have been dis-321,313 more than a year ago,

England, and a wire was sent to closed, are of a very sensational

I have no nature. It is the letter which was

him to this effect. handed to Bazin by one of the

doubt that it was the receipt of assailants just before he was shot

this wire that impelled him to commit the crime." down.

Political Motives?

The increase over the previous week, was spread over the whole country, and is no doubt necounted for by stoppages due to frost and anow-British Wireless,

Purged of its more objectionable THE KING PASSES Ation the Inst letter written by her

passages, the form in which it has been allowed to be printed in the Press, makes interesting read- ing.

GOOD DAY.

་ ,

DULL AND COLD WEATHER REPORTED.

Bazin is accused, by the men who killed him, of a long series of alleged misdeede, giving the crime a quasi-political character.

That Madame Mlao had ground for this belief was obvious when later sho produced for my inspec-

son from the condemned cell in Strangeways Gaol, Manchester.

This is in Chinese, but the inter- pretation is as follows:

Mod Infatuation.

BRITISH INDUSTRIES

FAIR.

ALL ATTENDANCE RECORDS BROKEN.

Crushed Ice,

FOUR SOUTHERN STATES IN TRACK OF CYCLONE.

▸

STABILISATION OF CURRENCY.

C. M. Anen .... W. H..C.

76.

24. 5.

During his tour of one of the villages in the affected area, the Prince of Wales visited the house of a Mrs. McCan, where he saw that although there were eight poople living in the two rooms there was only one bed.

The Prince naked what rent was paid for the cottage, and when Mra, McCan told him that it was rent free, he said: "That's the only good thing about it."

"We get blankets given to us on .SZECHO-SLOVAKIA NEXT TO. special occasiona; some of us

haven't felt the touch of a blan |ket for years,” someone told,thq:

Prince.

Captain Irving decided there. fore that an entirely new method of keeping the engine cool was necessary. Accordingly, "The Golden Arrow" has 題 srmalt radiator hidden in the stream: London, Feb 26."

lining of the body, and an ice box The first week's attendance at Alled with crushed ice behind the "I must have been mad. Too the London section of the British

engine.

The temperature at which it is It is officially stated at Bognor late I realized that I was in the industries Fair in the White City The letter refers to Bazin's. ac that H. M. the King pissed a good toils of this woman. Her, physl was 75,000; being an increase of tivitien an Chief of the Labour day. The weather remained dull cal attraction was too much for i 5,000 over last year's record figure desired to run the engine is 85 Recruitment Bureau, and his and cold throughout the day, and me. I could not resist it, and Im all the Dominions, India water from the cylinders la first

There was an increase of buyers degrees centigrade, and the warm-Reuter alleged abuse of monopolistic powers conferred on him by that although the King was able to went blindly into the, marriage sent twice as many buyers as last of all pumped to the small radia- position. The men who set their it up, His Majesty's windows with her,

London Feb. 26.

had to remain closed-British mark to the epistle, profess to Wireless. have done so on behalf of many thousands of disillusioned labour- ers sent to work mines in French South Seas possessions and in the raids were carried out in a num- fever-ridden rubber planatations bor of towns, notably in Haiphong, In Cochin-China.

Bazin was, therefore, killed in explation for the wronga, real or Imaginary, which these labourera

year. The total number of coun-

six-British Wireless..

tor, where its temperature is "When the obsession passed tres represented so far is fifty-slightly reduced, and, then led to the fee box, which will contain two cuble feet of crushed ico. The warm water will percolate through the ice; and be further cooled before It is led back to the engine.

realized that I had done wrong and that I did not love her as much as I loved my wife. You may blame in as much as you like, but there was no other way out FINE OIL-BURNER FOR where some thirty members of the than the way I have taken. My

ORIENT LINE. native population were arrested. one regret is that it has brought Amongst these detained and unhappiness to you, and 1 am to the grieved to think that you have taken for examination

FALL IN LINE.

Prague, Feb. 26:

Tragic Family,- The Governor of the National

Later the Prince met a man who' Bank of Szecho-Slovakia has an- nounced the forthcoming stabilisa-lost his sight in a plt accident, tion of currency at 38 crowns 75 whose wife broke her leg a few weeks after, one of whose children' hellars to the "dollar..

This is equivalent to 44.58. milli.is tubercular, and who with his family was to be evicted from his grammes gold to the

cottage in three weeks' time.

Pay-sheets ahown' to the Prince by Mr. Lynch, of Hartford, re- vealed afresh the awful conditions In the village,"

crowa.-

THE RANGERS STILL WINNING.

THIRD LANARK HEAVILY DEFEATED.

believe they have or are sustaining Surete, were the two sons of Mr. como, all this way to save me in 20,000-TON ORONTES FOR THE Daytona will be that new ice Will Glasgow Rangers playing at home,

at his hands,

Prominent Men Arrested.

Bach That Buol, Indo-Ching's most the bollof that I am innocent. prominent shipping magnate. "In your letter you dwell on the These two men were found to be story I told at the trial of others In possession of three revolvers who were guilty, I cannot deceive

Captain Irving calculates that the Ice will last about five minutes. and the procedure on the sands of

be picked up at the end of each run. The car will thunder over London, Feb. 26. the mfle timed strip at, It, là hoped, The just-completed 20,000-ton about 240 miles an hour, and be-

AUSTRALIAN SERVICE.

London, Feb. 26, In the Scottish League to-day, defeated Third Lanark by five goals to one--Reuter.

On the receipt of this letter of a calibre corresponding to the you, dearest of mothers. Theroll-burning Orient Liner, the fore it returns for the run in the Surete officials made one of the bullets taken from the body of the was no one else in the crime but Orontes, was launched at Barrow opposite direction, which is neces- leaves arqmple margin, while the most extensive investigations, on dead, Frenchman. They cleared your unhappy son, who was the to-day.

record. While police traps were suspicion by proving an alibi, but victim of momontary passion. set on roads of every possible are still detained on a charge of

The great vessel is designed for the Australian service. She will route radiating from Hanol, by being in possession of unlicensed I heard that Lao (his legal wife) sengers and 1,000 third-class

"I spent a night of torture when carry five hundred first-class pas- which the assailants might try to weapons. It had been alleged that make their escape by car, polies

Restor. (Continued on, Page 7).

(Continged on Pago. 14.)

enry for International à records, the Ice box will be refilled...

To cover the course in one direc tion at the speed contemplated will

realling will take only a few seconds:

By this means the head rs- take only a few seconds, and the is so destructive to high speeds, is sistance of a large radiator, which

Ave, minutes" allowance of Ice dispensed with.

Four men sharing the work of five shifts, entered £1 98, Gd. bu tween them.

Mr. Lynch pointed out to the Prince that the men would be bet- ter off on the dole..

I enclose herewith the sum

as a donation to

of 8.

the British Miners' Distress

Fund.

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