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MURDEROUS ATTACK

ON SCHOOLMASTER.

·THREE MEN INVOLVED IN

THE AFFAIR.

YOUTH ALSO STABBED

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ZAD WATAWAF TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1929,

· GEORGE'S DAY IN HONGONG.

TO BE OBSERVED' ON AN. EXTENSIVE SCALE..

BROADCAST ITEMS.

St. George's' Day, which falls on the 23rd instant, is to be observed on a more extensive scale this year than for some yearu past.

TORY

日七初月三

ELECTION BUDGET.

TEA DUTY AND BETTING TAX TO

of Mr.

At 11 n.m., officials and members the St. George's Society will lay wreath on the Cenotaph, whilst during the morning a basket of With apparently no other molive English roses will be presented to than murder, three, men entered Mrs. W. T, Southern, and 31 bun- the third floor of No, 165, Nam-chen of Posos (six dozen blooms in cheang Street, Shamshuipo, early ench bunch) will be presented to this morning and carried out a the various hospitals of the Colony. must dastardly assault on one of At 5 p.m., there will be a most the occupants, a schoolmaster, in interesting ceremony, when the bis sleep. After doing their vic-band of the Somerset Light Infan- tim almost to death with a num- try will play “Retreat" and nusical ber of anyage knife-thrusts, they selections on the Hongkong Cricket escaped into the streut and bad] Club ground: disappeared by the time assis- Telegrams from kindred So- tance was forthcoming.

cieties in the Far Enat will be When the police arrived, they brondrast from the Post Office -nt found the

schoolmaster anco-7 p.m., and these will be followed scious from multiple wounds, by a broadcast talk on England and while the other occupant of the St. George by the Hon. Mr. W. E. L.. flour, a young servant of the school- Shenton, President of the Society.. master, was found to be suffering from serious Wound throat. Both the Kowloon Hospital.

in the were removed to

Mysterious Affair,

A statement has been made, which while disclosing the actuali facts connected with the masquit, has invested the ease with my- Etery in regard to the possible | reason, which may have induced. the assullasta lo commit the mur derous attacks.

Ling Chun, the 18-year-old ner-) vaut of the schoolmaster. has stated that the three men entered the floor shortly before six o'clock this morning. The door was closed but not locked, and the men were able to reach the side of the bed on which the schoolmaster was lying asleep, before the youth was aware of the latṛusion.

Terrible Seene.

will be a concert and variety en- From B p.m. to 10.30 p.m., there

Tertainment at the Lee Thieníre, tu which all Service men stationed in the Colony will be invited. This will also be specially broadcast..

Y.M.C.A. RESIDENT

ROBBED.

MISSING ARTICLES PAWNED

BY EUROPEAN.

An Elgin wrist watch and chain bracelet, valued at $70, which were stolen from Mr. 1. Jeeves' room at the Y.M.CA. at Kowloon,' have been traced by the police to a pawnshop at Shamshuipo..

The articles disappeared during the short space of a quarter-of-an- hour when Mr. Jeeves was absent from his room on Sunday morning. Upon a report being made to the His attention was altructed by | polica, detectives were sent out to groans, and the boy, who was ta number of pawnshops, and the the time of the actual assault in articles were yesterday recovered the midst of the performance of at the Yau Sang Pan Pawnshop at his morning ablutions, rushed out Shamahuipo, where they had been of the kitchen and came upon the pawned.

BE ABOLISHED.

Churchill's Counterblast to Pet

Liberal Schemes.

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FURTHER YANGTZE

CASUALTIES.

BOAT FLYING U.S. FLAG FIRED UPON...

SHIPPING WARNED. Further casualties on vessels engaged in the Yangisze trade ard. reported in naval wireless mess- axes to-day.

CHINESE RIOTING IN MANILA

WORST TONG WAR FOR -MONTHS.

POLICE QUELL PISTOL BATTLE IN STREET.

The 8.8. Iping was heavily fired FIVE MEN WOUNDED. on while between Mile 9 and 6 above Ichang. One Chinese pau- nenger was killed and another wounded.

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The .. Oahu, which flies the Amerlenn fag, has reported being fired on in the same vicinity.

All shipping on the Upper and Middle River has been warned of the danger.

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Manila, Apr. 9. Bullets spattered against city walls Inte yesterday afterndon în Manila's Chinatown in the most serious tong war for many months, at the corner of Soler and Teodorn Alonso,

Armed with clubs and fighting an incensed moh of Chinese all the reserves of the Mejsic police station were required to quell the riot.

The outbreak was between the Sy Tlok tong and the Chin Po long. The rival forces took com plete possession of the streets with

Liu Ho-ting, at Ichang, is anid Expectations of a dramatic gesture by Mr. Winston certificate duty of £10 per nanum, to be ready to come in with the Churchill in his introduction of the inst Budget in the life of an in addition he would pay £40 Nationalists but will fight against the present Parliament, were scarcely realised in the House per annum for every telephone in an invasion from Szechuan.. of Commons yesterday. It was one of the least colourful of stalled in his office.

Large numbers of a Tsung-scores of Chinese engaging in a Mr. Churchill's annual statements, and though it clearly indi- A half per cent. would also be tu's troops passed through Shasimad pistol battle until the police

arrived. cates the Conservative Party's election programme, the points levied on the taking of the totali on Monday, going up the river and

Five persons were Injured, two nator which he had been led to be-crossing into Huan, require to be searched for.

lieve would be a, fair equivalent

of them seriously, Including a Fili to the license duty on bookmakers boats are in action below Shasi.

It is reported that Chinese 'gun-pino passor-by. The yield of these levies would be £850,000 in the current year and £900,000 in a full year. He

The only surprise was an announcement that the duty of Ad, per th, on tea will be entirely abolished immediately. and an immediate, reduction by this figure in the price to the ⚫ consumer is anticipated.

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The Chancellor of the Exchequer ventured the Tory admitted that the betting tax had alternative to Mr. Lloyd George's unemployment proposals. been a failure and a fiasco owing The Government proposes to increase percentage grants for the maintenance and construction of roads and bridges, while special grants will be made where persons from the depressed areas are employed.

The betting tax is abolished, but a new form of tax is to be introduced, namely, a charge of £40 per a hum on every telephone installed in a bookmaker's office...?'

to the volatile and elusive charne- ter of the betting population. The tax was also unfair in operation because it was paid by the honeat bookmaker, and not by his elippery rival,

U.S. FARM RELIEF.

SPECIAL SITTING OF CONGRESS.

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Washington, Apr. 15. The new Congroša met at a¤ €X+ Lordinary session to-day for the purpose of considering farm relief tariff revision, and to transact formal business.

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13 Chinese Arrested.·

Thirteen Chinese were arrested and a large number of police re- angvez ́were délailed to patrol the district to prevent further oul- break.

Those injured are:

Sy Huo, serious bullet wound fo the head.

Go Tom.

Lo Bok

Chiu Kinu Lian.

Vicento Ugaddan, 28, an em- ployes of Rohn Meyer and Com- pany.

Concession to Publicans, The surplus on last year's Budget, £18,000,000, together Another concession announced with the £4,000,000 carried over from the previous year, will was a 25 per cent reduction in the licences for the retail sale, of be placed to Rating, Relief Suspense Account In this con- beer and spirits, which was decid- Mr. Longworthy was re-elected Ugaddan receivell a. bullet nexion, the relief to agriculture is to be brought forward by fed upon in vlow of the curtail Speaker of the House of Repro-wound at the back of the head. six months to April 1st this year.

ment of the hours of sale since sentatives, and other formal busiAll of the injured were rushed

Mr. Churchill also announced that the country was drink- the ing more tea and less alcoholic liquors.

A DIG AT MR. LLOYD GEORGE.

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Those arrested' were:

This would War.

[to the Philippine General Hospital. cost ness was completed. £2,000,000 in a full year.

Congress adjourned till te-mom The fighting took place in the Other minor concessions, auch row.

heart of the Chinese district, Jas the reduction of certain harbour The proposed Government Far- Later, however, the fray moved dues to assist the fishing indua- morn' Reller Bill provides for the inside a house at 617 Calle Soler, trien, were announced, while Mr. appropriation of half a billion the headquarters of the Chin. Pa Churchill also said it was propos dollars and the appointment to Tong. ed to grant improved telephone the Federal Board of six members facilities in the rural districts. to promote the effective marketing Krim affair being enacted in the An interesting revelation

5.These concessions would reduce of farm products.-Reuler's Ameri- room where the schoolmaster had then made by the pawnbrukur's as-i The House of Communs was '500,000. been sleeping. He saw two menistant to the effect that the man crowded to the doors for this all-

The obligations Imposed upon the the estimated Budget surplus to can Service. hold down the schoolmaster, while who pawned the articles was

aimportant Budget of the Conserva-State by existing debt contracts £4,095,000. the third man made repented European. So far, the police have tive regime, among those present had fallen, he said, by £175,000,000 thrusts at the victim with aboen unable to discover his identi-being the Prince of Wales, a large in the space of four years, a figure dagger, wounding him in a num-ty.

number of Peers, and representa-which represented almost exactly ber of places.'

Lives of the Dominions. The what Mr. Lloyd George proposed to spend in two years in trying to win galleries were packed,

the General Election.

Youth Attneked,

They immediately, turned their attention to the boy, and by threats followed by savinge motions with the dagger, en- deavoured to induce him to be quiet.

FRENCH REVENUE.

SUBSTANTIAL SURPLUN

WAR

London, Apr. 16.

Mr. Winston Churchill, the Chancellor the Exchequer,

of deliver his Budget rese, to speech soon. after the Lopened.

Services bad been reduced by

"Showman's Holidny."

Rate Relief Advance.

INDIAN CHAUFFEUR ROBBED.

SEIZED BY CHINESE PASSENGERS.

Ung Lit, Gia Hong, Ans Cha, Sự Cha, Lung Lit, Chua Cho, Sy Tiny, Go See, Chus In, Ong Sua, Go Pan, Lo Pat and Chua Kian Lin.

No Warning.

Mr. Churchill made the rather

The "war" broke out without warning, breaking the peaceful surprising announcement that the relief of rates for agriculturists

monotony of a hot afternoon. would operate as from, April 1st.

According to eye-witnesses, an un- instead of from

Identified, Chinese was walking October Ist. Super-tax and income tax would'

along Teodora Alonso, a little before six o'clock. On reaching a "The nation's mengre savings are he unchanged. The abolition of

An unusual incident is disclosed | Linamith shop at 709 Teodora session apparently to be butchered to make tea duty will date from April 22nd,

a showman's holiday," declared Mr.but coffee, cocon and chicory will in a report made to the police Alonso owned by Sin Chin, which In reviewing the financial posi-Churchill, amid loud Ministerial be unaffected.

yesterday concerning a highway is also the Sy Tlok Tong head- The total estimated expenditure robbery which occurred at Ken quarters, he was said to be lion, Mr. Churchill said that the cheers.

Continuing, Mr. Churchill spoke for 1929-30 was £322,584,000, while nedy Town.

pursued by members of the tang. their hold, and the man with the The revenue returns for March period of the Government's term of

Nawab Khan, an Indian'public- The man reached the corner dagger sought to use his weapon toisild Fés. 2.930,000,000, how oflice had been a chequered story, of the country's trade, Auying that the full revenue would be £820,-

driver, relates that two and there the pursuers were met on the boy. He dodged the blows, in a surplus of Frs, 432,000,000 There was an industrial disaster the balance of trade had sensibly 680,000, leaving an estimated car sustaining a number of cuts on the hands, in so doing, but even- compared with Budget forecasts in 1926, but after two years of Improved. The power of the comsurplus at the end of 1929-30 of Chinese engaged, his car at the by a group of the Chin Potong.

He struggled to break free from

REPORTED.

Paris, Apr, 15,

tually received a thrust in the and of Frs. 242,000,000 on March throat which put an end to his of last year. plucky resistance.

For the first three months of the year, the surplus reaches

F 1,303,000,000 on the Budget

1928.----7ams.

improvement in the situation. quiet there had been a sensible

Country Prosperous. Despite the injury of the

£4,096,000

stand in Chater Road. On reach-in the ensuing fracas, automatie abroad, thus fostering the ex munity in export and invest capital

Ing Smithfield, at Kennedy Town,pistols and revolvers, diggers, port trade, had risen from

Public Works.

the car stopped and as he waited, hatchets, and other weapons were £86,000,000 in 3924 to £149,000,000 in 1928.

Mr. Churchill. dealing with the expecting to receive his fare, the used.

found himself driver suddenly

The fighting on the street corner The assallants ran into the street

New capital issues for Home In-Government's efforts in the pro- and had escaped by the time the neighbours arrived on the scene, Forecast and Frs, 929,000,000 com-general strike folly, by which the vestment in 1928 showed a growth vision of publie works, said that seized by the two men. They lasted but a few minutes. Seeing bors of the Chin Po Tong took period in Exchequer lost at least £8,000,000, of about £100,000,000 over 1924. in the past five years, the Govern searched his pockets, and took themselves outnumbered, the ment

$15. their attention attracted by a police pured with the same

the Conservatives had realised Exchange activity, and the flota-ment had spent £300,000,000 on

The men escaped before assis-refuge at their headquarters on whistle which the boy blew,

respectable and soild Budget and tion of how comedies had yielded housing, roads, agricultural de-tance could be summoned by the Calle Soler but were pursued by

£2,000,000 list Year, and he esll-velopment, and providing trade A surplus.

the warring Sy Tlok group. The fighting there was finally stopped The prosperity of the country mated a further growth this year, facilities.

They hava reorganised the

by the Mélale reserves. had maintained its steady advance, bringing the totf) to £2,000,000 In The savings of the smallest class fexcess of the estimate for Inat electricity supply system, and of investors had increased while year, and the total of £31,000,000. they proposed to increase the per- Ile estimated toreceive £58,000,-centage of grants for the mainten- the Government had been in power by £170,000,000. The cost 000 from super-tax this year. of living had declined by at least!

while points, eighteen

Both victims were removed la Hospital by the police, the school master being in a critical condition when admitted.

Officials of the Criminal Investi- gation Department are busy on the case, a description of the assailants being avallable,

"The floor on which this act of attempted murder was enacted, was occupied as a vernacular school, but it was also, used as living quarters

by the schoolmaster and his ser-

vant.

It is suggested as one theory that

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the attack.

CANCELLED VISIT TO

JERUSALEM.

THE ARCHBISHOP GIVES AN EXPLANATION.

London, Apr. 15,

the

Prospective, Surplus.

ance and construction of roads and |bridges by from 33 per cent, to 60 per cent., according to classifica-

An additional grant of 15 per

Mr. Churchill estimated the ex-Lion. any penditure for 1929-30 at £741,904,-

A statement issued from Lambeth symptom on which he dwelt with

more confidence

cline in

than on

The Government's deliberate

Indian.

HOME FOOTBALL.

TWO DRAWN GAMES.BY LOWLY SIDES.

$

Filipino Wounded,

Viconte Ugaddan was comlug from his home at 704. Benavidus. On reaching the street corner, the scene, of the fighting, he was nit by a stray bullet in. the back of, the bead. London, Apr. 15.

He heard threo' Palace says that the only reason the other as indicating the general 000, and the revenue on the existent, would be given in respect of playing at home, in the Second revolver shots, he said, On turn- Archbishop of Canterbury will not visit Jerusalem is the fact that his condition of the masses of the peo-ing basis.of taxation at £753,040,- all schemes in which not less than Division of the League to-day, Hull Ing he saw a Chinese holding a political motives were the cause of host, Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, has ple was the increased consumption, giving a prospective surplus fifty per cent. of. the men were City shared the points with Totten- revolver and shooting wildy at the

ham Hotspur, each side scoring rioters. been unexpectedly detained in of tea and sugar, and a notable de-of £11,975,000 on the existing busis drawn from depressed areas.

When things. finally, qufetene i the consumption of al- of laxation. S Purls by the work of the Repara- cool, which he believed to be due. From taxes he expected to re-

view was that unemployment In the Third Division (South) down, Ugaddan was able to point tions Experts-Rehler.

to a change in national habits and ceive £674,650,000 and from re- could only be reduced to normal Merthyr and Swindon Town played at Chua. Yen as the man who he the growth of alternative beverages. venue other than taxen a further by a revival of industry generally, a goalless draw at Merthyr.-Reu the gun. Ugaddan testified to the

£73,290,000.

which was far preferable to setter. Ten and Sugar.

No new taxes would be imposed ting the unemployed to work on Before the Great War, the Bri-this year. On the other hand, the road construction and on other tish people consumed every year tea duty would be abolished im- forms of publie work. 6.55 lbs. of tea and 81 lbs. of sugar mediately, the cost to the Ex- Counterblaatio Liberals. pur head. Last year, they can-chequer being £6,000,000,

umed 9.15 lbs. of ten, and 90 lbs. He, further announced that the

STAFF OFFICERS ON WAY SOUTH.

JOINING SOUTH CHINA COMMAND.

Shanghai, Apr. 16,, The headquarters of the North China Command ceases to exist s from to-day on the departure of the rest of the Headquarters Etaff for Hongkong.

There are now in Shanghai two buttallons of troops and the Brigade headquarters" staff, Reuter.

GREEK DICTATOR

COMMITTED.

CHARGE OF FIRING ON A'

CROWD.

This was regarded by Mr.

once.

FINE-WEATHER.

police that wan a45 calibre pistol.

Weapons Confiscated.

A great mob, attracted by the shooting and shouting, rushed to The Royal Observatory reports the scene and saw the riot from a of sugar, both of which constituted betting tax would be repealed; Churchill's hearers as a counter- a record in consumption of those It was the pne tax for which he blast to Mr. Lloyd George's that the anticyclone is now central safe distance away. People whose hotween the Loochoos and the houses were located in the neigh Alliens, Apr. 35.

commodities.

had been responsible which had schemes.

On the generat' question of the Boning A depression is still in bourhood closed their windows The former Dictator, General Mr. Churchill claimed that, the been a failure. It had been more

state of the country, Mr. Churchill dicated to the North-east of Hok and doors for fear of being hit by Pangalos, has been committed for Government had saved £7,500,000 trouble than it was worth.

said that whatever might be the kaldo and pressure remains rela- stray bullets,

Three daggers, two batchets, trial at the Asgizes on a charge of on armaments every year as com-

New Tux for Bookmakers.

future of a particular industry or tively low over South Manchuria. firing on a crowd on the eve of the pared with the year when the La Greek elections In November last,bour Government was in office, The bookmaker, in the future of particular localities, we were The local forecast till noon to two hammers, two butcher knives, morrow is East winds,: moder-two wooden poles, and five iron. "(Continued on; Pags:7.) while he said that the Civil Supply would pay the present license or

Fate; fine...

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