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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1929.

TORY CONFIDENCE BAD WEATHER FOR KWEICHOW BANDIT

IN VICTORY.

PREMIER'S MESSAGE TO COUNTRY.

WHITE PAPER DENOUNCED

BY OPPONENTS.

CRICKET.

BOWLERS DOMINATE PLAY AT NORTHAMPTON.

GLAMORGAN BEATEN.

London, May 18. Unsettled weather conditions have been very unfavourable to cricket since the season started, and

A STRANGE EPISODE. bowlers are still having matters

much their own way.

OUTRAGE.

U.S. MISSIONARY SHOT

FATALLY.

DETAILS OF MR. H. K. SMITH'S

TRAGIC FATE. .

TWO SHOTS FIRED.

Shanghai, May 9, Details have now reached Shanghat of how Mr. Herbert Kenneth Smith, director of the East Kwelchow Mission of the Soventh Day Adventista, was kill-

London, May 13.

The match at Northampton where Mr. Stanley Baldwin has issued Glamorgan were the visitors ended a: Message to the Country from Conservative headquarters in to-day, after less than two days' which he says that he starts the play, forty wickets falling for 670 election campaign confident of runs, of which number Northamped by bandita while travelling in

[victory.

The Conservativo Party, he goes on, is absolutely united. It 18 backed by five years, of solid work for the betterment of Indus- try and the people's welfare.

He asks for a simple mandate to continue building up the nation's prosperity on the same sound lines.

Neither the Liberais nor the Socialists can offer the country the atable, steady and progressive Government, it needs at the present time. He concludes that he has no doubts that the electors will give the Conservatives a. decisive mandate to go full speed ahead.

New Tople of Discussion.

Political circles have been pro- vided with a new topic of dis cussion by the publication over the week-end of a White Paper dealing with unemployment. It ly regarded as nothing more than election manifesto, as it consista almost entirely of a criticism of Mr. Lloyd George's "We Can Con- quer Unemployment" pamphlet.

The leaders of the other

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tonshire, obtained: 341.

tho southwestern section of Kwei. "Northants won by 103 runs, the chow Province on April 7. cores being:

Northants: 170 and-165. Glamorgatten 151-and-87. Batting first, Northants made a fairly good showing on a tricky wicket, hitting up 176. Arnott took 5 wickets for 62 runs. In reply. Glamorgan could do little with the bowling of V.W.C. Jupp, who took: 7 wickets for.51 runs, and could muster only 151:

Mr. Smith was making a trip from Kwelyang, the mission head- quarters, to Huangtssopa, near the borders of Yunnan. and Kwangsi, where he was to meet an ovango- list named Feng from Yunnanfu. With Mr. Smith were a Chinese evangelist, Bible woman, Nosu (Lolo) and Miao bellovers, and several coolles.

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They had spent Sunday night at the village of Sincheng, and left there that morning about six With a small lead on the first in-o'clock.. By ten o'clock, some 13 nings, Northants scored 165 at miles had been covered, and the their second venture (Clay G for company were ascending a moun- 17) and then dismissed Glamorgan tuin in single file. The Notu be in quick time for less than a hun-liever happened to be in the lead, dred runs-Reuter,

followed. by n carrier; and Mr. Smith was the third; these three- being out of sight of the rest of the party..

NEW BATTALIONS FOR SHANGHAI.

GREEN HOWARDS TO TAKE PLACE OF THE WILTSHIRES.

Shanghai,

Two Shots Fired.

Bandits had taken up positiona on the road; and as Mr. Smith came up where they were, one called out, "Yang Tuan Djung, all" ("Foreign officer, ab").

Mr. Smith possibly had no way of knowing whether those Recost-

Shanghai, May 9, Information was regelved in parties have seized ujion the Shanghai yesterday to the effecting hint were soldiers or robbers. publication #8 AL new election that two infantry battalions, will In an attempt to identity hinsel, ery, both Mr. Ramsay MacDonald replace the present unith in he reached for his namecard, when and Mr. Lloyd George stressing the curiosity of the manner in which It may be remembered that at the statement has been made."

cording to the Army arrangements issued some time ago apparently only the Worcesters had been al Mr. Ramsay MacDonald address-lotted to Shanghai, but yesterday's ing his constituents al Seaham telegram was to the effect that the Harbour, where he is the Labour 2nd Bn. The Green Howards will candidate, strongly denounced the come to. Shanghal, thus maintain White Paper. He drew attentioning the present strength.

Election Manifesto,

the bandit opened fire. The shot is reported to have missed; but with the second shot Mr. Smith fell to the ground-mortally wounded, The robbers evidently made quick work of looting, and then from the luft the rond; for first incomplete reports which come evangelist, Li Wan-chuen, indicate that he helped to carry the de- ceased down the mountain while he was still alive.

To the fact that it wha directed] It is understood that when the against the Liberal schemes, and Norfolks leave towards the end of The evangelist tried to talk with condemned "dipping into the the year they will be replaced by him, but Mr. Smith was unable public purse" for publishing "an the Worcesters while in January, to make reply. The members of election manifesto in the guise of when the Wiltshires leave, the the party who had been accom an official publication."

Green Howards will arrive here.panying him, tried to do what they Mr Lloyd George speaking at the At present they are in Egypt. could for him, but in only a few "National "Club, addressing the Li- It will be remembered that the minules he had passed away. beral candidates of London and the 1st Battalion of The Green Home Countries, chided the Gov- Howards were here in 1927, and ornment's "unprecedented and un-Shanghai will undoubtedly give a warranted step in authorising the very hearty welcome to their jasue of a document with the seal second battalion. of the Crown ΣΗ 11 political pamphlet."

Thoroughly Discreditable.

He described the Government's action as a "thoroughly discredit; able performance.”

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The first word regarding this ad event was received in Shanghai on April 16, in the form of, a telegram quoting from another telegram sent to Kwelyang from Huangtsaoba stating that Mr. Smith had been killed. An al- and was made by wire tempt wireless, through Kwelyang and Chungking, to learn the detalls; The White Paper referred to is

but no further word was received admittedly a reply to the Liberal

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until May 7, when a letter reached pamphlet expounded by Mr. Lloyd

of the Seventh-Day Adventist George. It consists of a general inge have been let for open Shanghai from Mr. A. B. Buzzell, statement in which the Minister of storage purpoags, which brings in

Mission headquarters in Kweiyang, Labour says that the Liberal pro. revenue in reduction of the cost

conveying, the information given of liquidation and granime would simply create a pro- During the year

above: we have been blem of demobilisation when complaced in possession of the lots

Members of the Mission in pleted.

adjoining Morrison Hill; which Shanghai realize that they have The Minister expresses the were allotted to the Company on sustained a great loss, as Mr. opinion that the scheme is imprac- the Government's resumption of Smith was a fearless and faithful ticable and based upon a misunder part of the land adjoining the worker in to note that two standing of the problema involved. Refinery compound, and these will interesting The Ministers of Health and tran- shortly be offered for sale, when aborigine believers were with him aport, the P.M.G. and the Chan- negotiations with the owners of at the time, one a Nosu, generally cellor of the Exchequer also con- adjoining properties have been alluded to as Lolo, while the other

was a Mino. tribute memoranda dealing with

completed. their own spheres.

Juvenile Labour,

Interest.

Employees Repatriated.

"During the perfod under re-

the

cause, It is

$20 All the Booty." Reuter's Peking correspondent The question of juvenile labour view the Company's European anys that the brigands robbed Mr. is dealt with at some length, the employees were repatriated, the Smith of $20, his eye-glasses and discussion centring on the result as he passage ng incluud other small things, after which' of the general decline in the birth in the accounts now presented. they decamped at rate which occurred during they arrangement with Messrs. Mfr. Smith lived for half an hour war period. The supply of juvenile Jardine Matheson & Co., after he had been shot, Mr. Smith labour, it is said, will reach its who made themselves responsible was a native of Zionville, Indiana. lowest ebb in 1983, but there will be a sharp rise in the following your continuing for four years, and afterwards another decline.

The Labour Party has adopted Mr. Thomas Aprhys, who is blind, as Mr. Lloyd George's opponent at Carnarvon, Router.

WARSHIPS IN PORT.

for this advance payment, the employees received their Pro- vident Fund balance in full, on leaving the Colony, Instead of ranking as ordinary creditors for the amounta at their credit.

"In conclusion, the Liquidators wish to record their appreciation of the work done by Mr. Baker, the Chief Engineer, who has' now left the Colony, and Mr. Middle- ton, the Manager, who leaves the Colony in the near futuro."

The Chairman stated that at

BRITISH LADIES GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP.

ANOTHER BIG AMERICAN CHALLENGE.

London, May 13, The British Ladies Open Golf Championship opened at Andrew's to-day in fair weather.

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The following warships were in the present juncture it would be A number of prominent American

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premature to say what the final indies are competing, but the result of the liquidation would be. holder of the title, Mademoiselle

The report and accounts wore Leblan, now Madame de unanimously adopted on the pro- position of Sir Robert Ho Tung, keconded by Mr. Lennox.

Chaume, is not defending."

In the first round, Miss Enid- Wilson, the holder of the English In Dock-H.M.S. Maruzion, Lin addition to the Chairman, were (Aldeburgh) by three and two. Those present at the meetings, championship, beat Miss Joy Wynn 15, L. 20.

Sir Robert Ho Tung, Messrs. A. Miss Glenna Collett (U.S.A.) de-. No. 1 Buoy.-H.M.S. Hormos. M. da Silva A Piercey, P: M. defeated Miss Marjorie White (Roe- No. 12 Buoy.-H.M.S. Thracian: Graca, J. Baptista, C. Sevard | hampton) by five and three; Mias No. 13 Buoy, H.MS. Storm- Remedios, A. W. Eastman, A. H. Dampney (Wimbledon) beat Hise cloud.,

Chambers. A. H. Lennok, A. II. Turple (US.A.) by three and two; Foreign Men-of-War-French | Potts, Ho Leung, R. O. Sutherland, Mias Hollins (USA) defeated Printed and Published for the Proprietom by FREDERICK PERCY gunboat Argus, US. transport E B. Clarke (Secretary) and John Mrs, Finlay (St. George's Hill) by

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