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GANG'S REVENGE ON THE 'SQUEAKER,

MAN & WIFE KILLED BY

MACHINE-GUN..

Now York, Mar. 20.

[of his apartment was sheathed with heavy pieces of iron and was equipped with strong bolts,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

AMERICAN-RYDER

CUP TEAM.

HAGEN QUIETLY CONFIDENT OF PROSPECTS.

ATTACK ON THE OPEN,

London, Apr. 16.

The members of the American Ryder Cup team of golfers, which are visiting England with a view to retaining the trophy won last year, arrived in, Plymouth this morning, with the famous profes- sional, Walter Hagen as thoir captain,

Hagen, in an interview with Reuter's representative, discuss ing the prospects said that his fellows represented the best team that America had ever sent to England,

All Amercian Open Champions who were eligible to play had been included, though he was prepared to admit that they would all havė

to play hard to retain the Cup. He mentioned that all twelve American players were born in the United States.

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The match is to be played at Leeds and the eight to represent the United States will be selected according to the form displayed in preliminary trials.

Seventeen American golfers, all of first-class rank, are included in the party and all will compete in the British Open Championship at Muirfield.

Miss Marion Hollius, the Ameri- can lady champion in 1921, and Miss Turpis, the present Southern States champion, arrived by the SANLE baal to compete in the British Ladies' Championship ut St. Andrews-Reuter,

ARCTIC AIRSHIP SERVICE.

DR. NANSEN RETURNS FROM UNITED STATES,

Bergen, Apr. 16. Dr. Nansen, the noted explorer, has returned from America, where he has been negotiating in cor- nexion with the proposed trial Bight of the Graf Zeppelin to Amerlen via the Aretic in connex- lon with the proposed trans-Argtie airship service between Europe and America,

Interviewed, Dr. Nansen

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1929,

ALLIES IN CAUSE OF HUMANITY.

SAFETY OF LIFE AT

SEA PARLEY.

KING WELCOMES FOREIGN DELEGATES.

OLDEST TRADITIONS.

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BRITAIN'S STOCK OF RADIUM.

MORE OF PRECIOUS MINERAL TO BE PURCHASED.

BIG PUBLIC APPEAL.

London, Apr. 16. Mr. Winston Churchill, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, an- nounced in the Commons that the report of the sub-committeo at the Committee of Civil Research, which was appointed in July. last year to examine the national. radiuin requirements, will be is-

London, Apr. 10. The new conditions prevailing since the last International Consued immediately. vention were stressed by Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, the President of the Board of Trade, at the opening Lo-day of the International Con- ference for the Safety of Life at Sea, convened by the British Government.

The conference is being held at the Foreign Office, and delegates from seventeen countries were present including

The report deals with require- ments for medfeal treatment, and for the purpose of physical re- search and with the possibility of developing new sources of supply.

ed.

The sub-commitico recommends the appointment of "National Radium Trustees" to hold funds provided by Parliament or other wise, and to purchase and hold the British radium for distribution and use Dominions and India, the United by a "Radium Commission" whoso States, Japan, and most of the establishment is also recommend-

countries, European

including

The report estimates that about Soviet Russia and Holland,

25 grammes of radium are at pre- sent available in the country, and expresses the opinion that in or der to meet the requirements of England, Wales and Scotland, twenty grammes of radium in ad- Cition to the stocks already avail- able or likely to be available

King's Message. Representatives of the League of Nations wore also present at the conference, which aims at the revision of the Convention signed in London in 1914 after the Titanic Disaster.

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Sir Philip Cunliffe Lister con- veyed to the conference a message from the King extending a cordial welcome to the delegates.

shortly for general medical use, should be acquired within a speci- fled period before the end of 1930. The report adds that the Bel-

The Trustees.

His Majesty recalled the confer-gian Congo is at present the only ence which met in London over source of additional supplies of fifteen years ago, and expressed fary quantity. pleasure that so many of the countries which participated in that conference were now onco more united in co-operation in the great cause of the safety of lfo at aca.

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Novel Experiment. Addressing the conference, Siri Philip Cunliffe Lister said:

"The purpose of this conference is to review the Convention of 1914 and we assemble almost on Titanic the anniversary of the Disaster, which was the immediate cause of the last conference.

The Trustees should number eleven, including the Minister of Health; the Presidents of the Me- dical Societies. They should be entrusted with the appointment of the Radium Commission.

The report recommends that wi public appeal should bo mudo for the necessary funds, estimated to

£200,000, for the purchase of the extra radium, the Government. contributing £ for £.

Mr. Churchill announced that the Government had accepted in principle the recommendation a 1egards the establishment of or- ganisation and is prepared to con- tributo £ for £ to a maxinium £100,000.

That conference was of the greatest value. It was a novel and an ambitious experiment and It ought to cover a wide field. CxMost of the questions affecting prossed the opinion that Fair- the safety of passenger ships came Replying to Mr. Hamsay Mac- banks, Alaska, was the best site within its purview. That con-Donald. Mr. Churchill and the for a mooring mast. Negotiations ference dispersed and within six Government did not fear that the are proceeding, with the Ameri- months came the cataclysm of the announcement would can authorities.

Great War.

Certain American newspapers have proposed that the mooring mast on the European side be erected at Leningrad-Renter.

JAPANEŠE TROOPS IN SHANTUNG.

EVACUATION DEFINITELY

POSTPONED.

And now we are met again, all

of ailles In the common cause humanity and the very experience of war will aid in this pacific task,

New Experience.

The work which los before you, can be summed up in a sentence.

You meet to review the con. clusions reached fifteen years ago In the light of the knowledge and experience gained in those critical years,

seriously

affect the price of radium Reuter and British Wireless..

..THE DISARMAMENT

CONFERENCE,

MINOR SUCCESS FOR THE SOVIET DELEGATION,

Geneva, Apr. 16. Before the Disarmament Com- Much time and study have been mittee, M. Litvinoff declared that Tokyo, Apr. 17.

devoted to the problems of con- the Soviet scheme of disarmament The Commander of the Japanese sions have been tested by actual

struction and provisional conclu- was the only practical one. Garrison in Shantung has been application to new ships.

The Chinese delegate outlined a telegraphically instructed to post- Great developments have taken scheme for abolition of compul-

sory military service.

pone

the evacuation of the place in

wireless telegraphy, Japanese troops, in accordance | Wireless is becoming, if it has not with yesterday's decision.

already become, the most im- It is understood that the Govern-portant element in the safety of ment is drawing up a statement life at sea. explaining the reasons necessitat ing this postponement-Renter.

SELLING LIVE LIZARDS.

HAWKER WHO. OFFERED BRIBE TO CONSTABLE,

A hawker, who was plying a rather unusual business in Pot

tinger Street, selling live lizards, was brought this morning be- fore Major C. Willson, for falling in specify on his Eernce, which win produced by an Indian constable, the goods he was selling.

The defendant was also accused of offering a bribe of thirty cents to the constable, when he

was arrested.

The Magistrate imposed a fine of $1 on the first charge and a fine

of $4 on the second.

MINOR TONG-WAR.

The gunmen smashed the door TROUBLE BETWEEN CHINESE

In while Succo and his wife were

still in bed, and then opened fire

on them with a machine-gun.

CLANS."

To-day, it not only insures the greater safely of the ship which carries it but it makes her a potential saviour of her sister Bhips.

Tradition of the Sens Thus the latest discoveries of science come in to reinforce and to make more effective the oldest tradition and practice of men who suit the seas.

On these and on other problems, you bring to bear individual and collective experience unrivalled.

which is

On the proposals of Mr. Wallace Whitehead, of the United States delegation, Vice-Admiral Sir H. Richmond, the chairman, of the British delegation took the chair.

The proceedings thereafter were private.--Reuter and British Wireless.

SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICIAN.

'DEATH OF SIR THOMAS SMARTT.

Dr. Bernstorff said he hoped the German delegation would not leave Geneva before a solution

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namely the effectives and war material of the land and sea forces.

The committee adjourned until April 17, after agreeing on the agenda, whereby the draft conven-. tion for a proportional and pro- gressivo reduction of all arma- ments will be the first item dis-

curred,

The result of the discussion was success for the Soviet delegation Inasmuch as the Soviet plan for general disarmament is to be the first subject of discussion,

The Turkish delegates have sub- mitted a scheme which provides for the fixing of the maximum effective forces required for the defence of each of the great Powers. States possessing

forces above the maximum agreed upon must reduce them, but States below the maximum will not be allowed to invreuse-Reuter,

SPITTING IN COURT.

CHINESE WHO WANTED TO CLEAR THROAT..

"What do you mean by apitling in my Court?" naked Mr. E. W. Hamilton of Chinese hawker who was charged with a minor offence In connexion with his teence this morning.

"To clear my throat," came the pat reply,

Capetown, Apr. 10. According to the police, a sim- The death is announced of the A party of, Kummon battered According to the police it was a plified form of tong warfare in Right Hon. Sir Thomas Smartt, their way into the armour-pluted case of ruthless revenge by gange fat of Bam Sacco, an ex-convict, land against a "squeaker forging in Hongkong, the activiK.C.M.G., who was Secretary of in a quiet section of Queen's (a while serving a sentence for mur confined mainly to the breaking of Africa from 1921 to 1924.

ties of the respective clans being | Agriculture in the Union of South New York auburk) this morning der in Sing Sing; Saçep betrayed

night-refuse receptacles.

An Irishman by birth, he, was "Do you know that I should fine and killed him and his wife. to the governor plans made by a

Apparently Bacco knew that his number of convleis for a dash for At the Police Court this mor- trained for the medical profes-you for that offence?" said Mr. Wife was threatened, for the door liberty.

ning, Mr. E. W. Hamilton took a sion, but subsequently ontored Hamilton, X

serious view of a caso in which a politics and held several Minis "Perhaps so," replied the smil- Chinese was charged with this Lerial posts in South Africa. Ho ing culprit, "but my throat often offence, and fined him $25, with was leader of the Unionist Party troubles mo that way and I have the alternative of a month in pri- in South Africa, and was a Pro, to spit somewhere." Jaon with hard fabbur,

gressive in politics-Router..

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"Cautioned-don't do it again;" rejoined Mr. Hamilton.

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