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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1929.

STUDENT PARADE GETS BENEFIT OF INTERPORT CRICKET

STOPPED.

SIX ARRESTS MADE IN.

SHANGHAI.

ANTI-JAPANESE PROPAGANDA

SCATTERED IN STREET. -

SCENE AT CONSULATE.

Hundreds Gather,

It was the intention of the de-

DOUBT.

SEQUEL TO SNATCHING CASE

IN KOWLOON.

EVIDENCE TOO WEAK,

The benefit of a slight doubt in a case of snatching, which was men- tioned before Mr. TS. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, was given to the deferdant who was charged with stealing a gold and jade ear-ring from a Chinese girl in Shantung Street last night.

TOURNEY.

(Continued from Page 1) After two nice unproductive strokes, the Cingalese" pulled Loach to leg with a magnificent shot, the ball alighting on the teat reserved for members, putting 50 up. Play had been in progress exactly an hour.

Basthorne replaced Wilson at the Supreme Court end and scuring again slackened. In Rawr thorne's third over, Bostock-Hill cut him for a single and Lal Singh put 60 up with a four through the

covers.

AN AMERICAN IN TROUBLE.

SHOT AT WOMAN AND YOUTH|

WITH AIR RIFLE.

PRISON AND FINES.

BOAT CAPSIZES IN

ROUGH SEA.

MAN RESCUED AFTER THREE

·HOURS ON A PLANK

On board were the master, Yip Sap-nr. and two fokis, Choi Ping and Chang-ping. At 9 p.m. the same day, whilst the boat still under way, heavy seas were encountered, and the boat cap- sized.

Was

TWO OTHERS DROWNED

A goal sentence of 30 days und The capsizing of a boat and the Lal Singh continued to bat two fines of G$250 each on two disappearance of the master and entertainingly and he reached his charges of assault and battery a foki is related in a report recoly- 20 after 50 minutes, wine of them were passed on Frederick Wed by the police from the Talpo Schlobohm, prominent in Shanghai Station. A feature of the story is coming the last five minutes.

aports vircles by Judge Milton D the rescue of another foki who Purdy in the U.S. Court for ina, was picked up by a fishing junk Shanghai, Oct. 28.

last week. Schlobohm was given after he had been clinging to a

Six Chinese students were or-

The defendant denied the charge,

five days grace to settle certain plank in heavy seas for thres rested by Honkew police at various According to the girl, she was

business matters bafore entering hours. points in that district yesterday standing beside two buckets of

the U.S. gaol on Whangpoo Road.

The details, as received by the The charges against hira were of Afternoon following three distur- water in Shantung Street at 8

O'Hara resumed at the other having shot and seriously wound-police, are that at 1 pm. on bances for the purpose of protest- o'clock last night when one of her

Saturday a cargo boat left Chang ing against the reported arrests by car-rings was snatched by some end and Bostock-Hill played himing a Chinese woman, and having Chang with. 127 piculs of salt,

She looked with extreme caution, no runs shot a Chinese youth, with Ап the Japanese authorities of a num- body from behind. ber of Chinese in Japan,

around and saw the defendant run-accruing off his first over. z Austrian air rifle carrying a point bound for Shee K, in Chinese

territory. The Intention of the rioters was ning away. She gave chase down Rawsthorne was bowling in anded slug, on the afternoon of to demonstrate outside the Japan- a scavenging lane, and the defen; out, sometimes getting a violent August 5 as the result of an ese Consulate in Wangpoo Read, but dant was intercepted by a man and break on the ball. A loose one altercation with the boy who was this was provented by the timely arrested. Witness stated that she should have gone to the boundary alleged to have been trespassing action of the police,

kept the defendant in sight during but Bostock-Hill did not get hold on his property on Hungjao Road the whole chase.

of the ball properly and only two neur the golf course. Evidence of the chase was also

runs resulted. He reached his given by a boy who pursued the de- twenty off the next ball with a

to the com- neat square cut. fendant in response plainant's shouts.

An elderly Chinese spoke of hav- and distribute literature ing had his attention attracted to against the action of the Japanese. the defendant running away, with At each spot where trouble oc-the complainant in pursuit. Wit- curred, several hundred Chinese of ness rushed along Shanghai Street the student type assembled and at and caught the defendant, who was a given signal threw large quanti-running. Lies of pamphlets into the air and immediately endeavoured to make themselves scarce before the police could apprehend them.

The police were well aware that trouble was expected and men were posted at danger points chief of which was the Japanese Consulate, It had been ascertained that the trouble was to start shortly after 2 p.m, and by 2.30 a report was I received at Hongkow station that a/in reply to a series of questions, over put 80 on the board after a fence to. be put up, but this did!

large crowd was gathering on North Szechuan Road in the vicinity of Tiendong Road, just below the post Office. Additional men were sent from the Hongkew Station and when they arrived the crowd, con-

monstrators to gather at different points in Hongkew district and march to the Japanese Consulate and there deliver a number of pro- tests

He was represented by Mr. C. P. Holcomb and the U.S. District Attorney Dr. George Sellett, ap peared for the Slow Bowler Put On..

prosecution. Seventy runs were on the board/Schlobohm pleaded guilty.

Question of Grazing Privileges, after 85 minutes, Lal Singh's con- tribution being 33. A smlek to leg

It was brought out in evidence for two shortly afterwards gave Bostock-Hill his quarter century that the accused had a large piece after 55 minutes at the crease. of property on Hunjao Road and Leach again changed his bow had had frequent differences with

Chinese living in a village near h ling, Marshall, a slow bowler, who used the plot to graze their replacing Rawsthorne. times Lal Singh went for six or buffaloes. He had protested to nothing and got nothing, failing them and their contention was that they had made certain completely to get hold of tempting His Worship had the man re leg balls. O'Hara bowled arrangements with the previous called and closely questioned him maiden to Bostock-Hill, and then owner whereby the grazing privi- with regard to the chase and sub-Lal Singh managed to get Mar-leges were to remain theirs in the sequent arrest,

It was mentioned by Sergeant Carruthers that the girl and the man lived in the same house. The boy told his Worship that he lived in Reclamation Street opposite the other two witnesses.

The girl was also recalled, and,

mentioned that on two occasions when the defendant turned corners she lost sight of him.

In discharging the defendant. his Worship, said the case looked suspicious, but it would be taking a risk if he convicted, and he could

Three

shall away for a single.

Two singles in Marshall's next

1

event of sale.

Finally the accused bad caused

All three men were thrown into the water, bat the foki, Chang Ping, succeeded in grasping a wooden plank, by which means he kept himself afoat until midnight, when he was rescued by a fishing

junk

Unfortunately no trace could be

found of the master and the second foki, and it is believed that both were drowned in the heavy sens.

NANKING ON THE DEFENSIVE.

(Continued from Page 1.), '

mander of the Nanking troups t Chengchow and along the Cheug-. chow-Loyang frontier.

sisting of many curious Chinese, not take any risks. He would not the scoring pace having quickened three buffaloes on his land and he from Chengchow assert that 100,- |

had swelled to about 300.

Pamphlets Scattered. Pamphlets purporting to emanate, from the Kiangsu Provincial Com- munist League were scattered in many directions at this spot, and though there was no necessity for any form on the part of the price

a number of the Chinese of the student type, who were found in possession of communist literature, displayed sufficient antagonism to the police to be arrested. Four were taken to the Hongkew Station, At about the same ticie, another crowd collected outside the muin door of the Post Office and addi- tional pamphlets

thrown were around but when the police.com- menced to disperse this section of the demonstrators there show of resistence.

was no

100 minutes. Lal Singh then got not suffice to keep the intrudera the same bowler way to the out,"

On the afternoon of August 5 he Queen's Road boundary with daisy cutter, scoring his forty..had driven out to the ground with Another four in the same direc- the air rifle in the back of his car.

Official Government reports tion put 90 up after 105 minutes, le found a Chinese youth with

000 Nanking troops, under the called on the youth to leave."

The boy showed some hesitancy command of General Hsiung Shih- about going. He was holding one hui, Ma Kung-luk and Wang Kwan, of the animals by a rope, another have arrived on the Peking-Han- Off his first ball, Lal Singh's was free and the third was tether-kow and Lung-Hai Railways as reserves. This big army is ready. magnificent innings came to ended by a ring in the nose. The Cingalese hit it back to the

After further warning and feel-at any moment to join in the bat- bowler, presenting the simplest of ing that the boy was taking his tle. now waging near Chengchow catches. He had been battine for time about vacating the land, the and Loyang, two strategic pointa an hour and 40 minutes and had accused fired the air rifle severalia Honan Province, scored 48 in a bright, display, hit- times in his direction striking the ting five 18.

boy. Other of the slugs. struck

say that the evidence of the pro-appreciably. Marshall had proved secution was unsatisfactory, but it too expensive and Leach put on Torry, Wilson with the score at 94. was not quite strong enough.

Continuing, his Worship said he

Lal Singh Caught. was inclined to believe the witness

but the complainant had had to atimit that she had lost sight of the defendant for short periods when

he turned corners.'

His Worship said he did not have very much doubt about the evidence, but at the same time there was just a light doubt in his mind and he must give the defendant the bene-

lit of it.

The defendant was discharged.

NOT IN 1930?

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE

HITCH.

London, Oct. 9. It is understood that there is now. possibility that there will be no Imperial Conference in 1930,

Hilt

Another Disaster.

...

Nanking Höpes.

His partnership with Bostock- the animals and there was à gen- Official Nanking reports state had at least partiall»eral exodus from the property. that the Kuominchun forces are retrieved I disastrous start,

Woman Badly Hurt,

still holding Tengfeng and Linyue, realising seventy runs.

which they captured during the R. R. L. Braddell, the Maloyan A crowd, had meanwhile collect- skipper, who was next man in, ed outside the enclosed space and week-end, but that they are run- hing short of ammunition. Nan- almost played on before he had one of the bullets struck a woman king militarists expect the Kuo- had time to bat an eyelid, but he in the right breast. She thought minchun to give up Tengfeng and played a straight bat to everything little of the wound but after seve-Linyue within three days. Fire Cracker Ås Signal. ·

afterwards, and seemed likely to ral days suffered considerbale pain In the meantime, another crowd-

settle down. He opened his score and on appealing to the Lester On Sunday morning, sume ski- had collected in a small street off

with a straight drive which went Memorial Hospital journed that mishing between the Kuominchun Broadway, just about" opposite the

just wide of the bowler.

she had an infected breast and the and Nanking troops took place at "H. and S. Bank branch. Several

slug was still imbedded. Dr. Gal-Szeshuiho and Yungyang, not far, of these had commenced operations

He had the misfortune, however, braith operated and removed the from Chengchow, the present con- by throwing a stone through the

to be caught behind the wicket by lobject and she recovered.

centration point of the Nanking window of the Bethsheda Chapel

Barnes. off his body. The ball Mr. Schlobohm said that he had troops. followed by the firing of n ernzker

It is certainly definite that it can. seemed merely to shave his left made several attempts to settle the which was the signal for other not be held in June as was originallyhip; the bowler appealed and he affair for $15 each but the nego- The Nanking troops at Szqshuj- demonstrators to throw large quan- | hoped. The Australian Prime was given out. The spectators tiations had fallen through as a ho and Yungyang are under the tities of pamphlets into the air and Minister (Mr. Bruce) wanted the seemed doubtful of the strict Chinese lawyer became interested command of General Llu Hsing, make a dash for safety as quickly conference as early na, possible, injustice of the decision. as possible.

1930, but the other Dominions were The 100 went up when Bostock, in the case and also the Chinese while the Kuominchun units are under General Pong Ping-hsun. It A small crowd gathered on | not keen,

Hill, now partnered by Smith, hit authorities."

U.S.ie stated that in a battle Whangpoo Road at about the same The negotiations, which continued Wilson to the boundary,

His appearance The time and were obviously waiting for until the dissolution of the Federal innings had now been 125 minutes Court for China followed and sen-Szeshuiho the Nanking troops sui-

tence was passed as given above.

fored heavy casualties, hundreds support from the others who had Parliament, have now been suspend in progress.

being wounded- assembled at various points in the ed, and, even if they are readmed A boundary bye put 110 up in district. The precautions taken inmediately after, the cleclions, it the lust over of the morning, the had not opened his account. by the police prevented any serious will be difficult to arrange secanfer-exact score being 111, at tiffin, Wilson had taken four wickets for disturbance in this quarter and two enre before 1031.

Bostock-Hill stood at 40 not out 33 runs and O'Hara one for 20. of the most ardent supporters of

(including four 4's) and Smith Detailed scores appear elsewhere. the movement were arrested.

FINDING WORK FOR THE IDLE.

(Continued from Page 1.)

600,000 tong would be sent, and

he said without fear of contradic-

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In the course of his speech, Mr.

be to get customers, but to supply Thomas dealt with the difcalties He was satisfied that what could experienced by the Government

the demand.

be done with anthracite could also

be done with bituminous coal, and

and Municipalities in acquiring

land for roads, and he foreshadow-

he sent out some coal in advance ed early legislation to tax land

of his visit, He adopted this menstre because we could not hope to compete with our conl against the American enal merely on the basis of so much per ton. If our coat were judged on value. as. against American, we could com- pete.

Coal and Steel.

values and unearned increment

"Three Months' Hard Labour,”

Concluding, he hoped that the House would necent his statement as the first indication of "three month's hard Inbour.".

Mr. Lloyd George" the - Liberni Lealer, deserthed Mr. Thomas'

As a result of his visit, five proposals as "timid," pusillanmous

6,000-ton ships had been ordered to deal with, con! exports to Canada next year alone.

and unintelligent."

Mr. J. Maxton, who lend the Left Wing of the Labour Party. complained that the proposals con- tained nothing that had not been tried out by Mr. Baldwin and Mr.. Lloyd George,

In regard to steel-exports to Ganada he was even more optimis tle. He was now arranging for the Export Credit Committee to finance a large tonnage of steel. In this connexion, Mr. Thomas Sir Laming Worthington Evang afged the desirability of greater (Conservative) regretted that the regularity of return cargoes from House had had nothing more. Canada, mentioning the quantity offered to it than of wheat held up at Montreal. tentative efforts. The cost of our coal and steel was. The vote on Mr. Thomas' anlary, affected by the present irregulari- on which the debate was initiated, ty of return cargoes. The Wheat was agreed to without a division. Fool would be meeting him short-Reuter and British Wireless.

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GJME, MY HEA SÈNICE, WE

"You only had two moves and I'd have taken your klög

either way."

пест

Retreat Reported. The defeated Nanking troops re- treated from Szeshuiho into Chengehow on Saturday after a very busy week directink the Nan king

operations at Szeshulho, Yungyang and Künghsien,

General Wei Yeh-shan, another Nanking lender, also returned from the front to Chengchow on Saturday and he is expecting to take charge of counter-attacks on the Knominchun with the arrival of new Nanking troops.

Hiangyang Jeopardised.

From Kuominchun sources it is reported that the Kuominchun troops are making splendid pre- grees near Hiangyang. It is stated that the troops under Generals L Chih-toul and Liu Yue-ming assaulted Hiangyang from Lohcbow on Saturday even- ing and that over 2,000 Nanking troops were disarmed near Hiang- yang.

After their victories near Hlang- yang, the Kuominchun advanced and some of their plain clothes troops are said to be now" near Sinyangchow.

Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, who left Hankow sometime last week, for Hsuchow on the Peking-Han kow Hallway to direct military operatione, has deferred his trip, being content to remain at Yen- cheng for the time being on account of the critical condition and severe fighting now in pro gress at many points near Cheng- chow, Hsuchang, and Loyang

Latect reports suggest that Hiangyang is still in Nanking hande, although the Kutominchan

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