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FURTHER LOCAL ESTATES.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1929.

LULL REPORTED ON KWANGTUNG LINES NANKING TROOPS

INSPECTED. WAR FRONT.

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LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION GRANTED.

KUOMINCHUN NOW FACING FOOD PROBLEM.

ENGINEERS FINISH SURVEY OF RAILWAYS.

MUTINY."

ATTEMPT MADE TO ARREST THEIR GENERAL.

SERVANTS BENEFIT.

TROOPS MAY GO OVER. RETURN TO NANKING. THREE OTHERS SHOT.

There has been no signifeant change in the tactics of either side, except that the Nunking forces have abandoned the defensive and are now taking up the offensive.

Shanghal, Nov. 13. * Local estate to the value, of

After the Nanking troops' occu-| $43,300 was left by Mrs. Kisum el "Arculli, late of No. 153, Wonguel-pation of Mihsien, a complete hull chong Road, Happy Valley, who died prevailed along the Honun fronts Intestate on December 29, 1928. on Tuesday and Wednesday! Lottors of administration have been granted to the eldest daughter, Ray Hil el Arculli. Mr. F. M. Arcul

(son), Katma el Arculli and Ra- hima el Arculi (daughters) havo renounced their claims and titles to the administration of the estate. Mr. Alexander Walters Barclay, formerly engineer" on board the .. Kutaang, who died at Glasgow on August 20, 1927. left Hongkong Estate worth $7.500. The late Mr. Barclay was of No. 56, Grunt Street. Grenach; and, in hi will he bequeathes everything to. kis father, Mr. James Barclay, residing at the address given. Re-sealing of Testament. Testamentar has been granted' to Mr. Robert Barclay, chief engineer, of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire.

Suma ranging from 10 to 250 were bequeathed to servants by the late Mrs, Kathleen Rose, otherwise known as Mrs Katherine Moore, late of Grosvenor Hotel, North Parade, Bath, who died on April 10, this year, leaving $62,300 local estate. Re-sealing of probate has been granted to Mr. D. J. Lewis, of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master, who is the attorney for the executor, Mr. Austin Michael King, of London.'.

Ping-wo, alias Ng Ting Ng hang, late of No. 48 Kowloon Tong, who died intestate on July 18, 1928, left Hongkong estate worth $48,300. Letters of ad- ministration have been granted to the widow, To Yuk-kam, living at Kowlooon Tong.

EXHIBITION.

RULES FOR UNIVERSITY .DISPLAY,

Canton, Nov. 14.

SURPRISE FOR THE GOVERNMENT.

AUSTRALIAN LABOURITES AND EMIGRATION:

ASSISTED PASSAGES.

In answer to

Shanghal, Nov. 13.

London, Nov. 13. The party of technical experts. Nanking troops belonging to the

a question In recently gent down to Canton from 52nd Division at Changteh, a Parliament to-day, Mr. Arthur the Ministry of Railways at Nan-flourishing city in northern Hunan, Ponsonby, the Under-Secretary for at the Dominions, stated that a tele- king to inspect the railways in mutinied last Saturday and Kwangtung generally and especial-tempted to overthrow their Divi-gram had been received from the the Canton-Haukow line with a slonal Commander, General Wa Prime Minister of the Common wealth of Australia (Mr. Scullin) view to pushing on the schema of Sheng.

General Wu Sheng has for some stating that it had been decided to completing the whole line, left here and returned to the North time past co-operated with and suspend for the present, the grant

supported General Ho Chien, the of assisted passages to Australia. 3esterday.

Military Governor of Hunan Pro- vince.

The party included three A number of minor clashes in other sectors seems to favour the gineers and ane foreign, experti

For reasons which have not been Nanking troops and judging by who returned to the capital a few the movements of the Nanking days earlier. In an interview with revealed at the moment, General army Marshal Chiang Kai-shek Mr. wang Kin-chik, one of the en-Wu's men made a bold attempt on is desirous of dispatching his best glucers, he stated, that the party Saturday to arrest their leader. had generally inspected the thred Fortunately, General Wu Sheng units to eapture Tenfang.

lines in the province, namely the received news of the plot in the Canton-Sanshin Railway, the Can-nick of time and by making ton-Hankow Railway and the Can-hasty exit from the city to Yiyang

The escaped. ton-Kowloon Railway?

The Nanking forces arg proaching Tengfeng from two directions, but up to late yesterday no report of any serious Bghting at Tengfeng had been reported.

The Kuominchun troops under General Sun Liang-sing are facing the serious problem of providing foodstuffs for the tens of thou- sands of troops inside Tengieng, but as the Nanking troops are surtounding the city communie tę tion with other Kuominchus forces] is not possible,"

Official circles in Nanking ex- press the opinion that it is quite possible the Kuominchun forces at Tengfeng may agree, to turn over to the Central Government.

General Kat Hung-chung,

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Immediately on their arrival Nanking they will' make a detailed report of their inspection to the Government as a preliminary to on these further improvements three lincs-Nam Ching Po

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MEN AS DICTATORS

OF COLOUR.

COUNCIL FORMED TO GUIDE MANUFACTURERS.

re- At a gathering in London cently, composed entirely of men arrayed in drab clothes, with not a single joyous note of colour even in their ties, the British Colour Council was born.

Kuominehun Divisional Comm der controlling Tungkwan, and two other Kueminehun Divisional Commanders, Generals Pong Ping-

Its main object will be to uet hsun and Liu Yu-min, are said to have sent personal envoys to interas uide and udviser to manufac- view the Nanking Commanders at turers and dyers throughout the country on the trend of fashion in

are not known.

STOLE OIL AND WASTE.

Regarding the second annual GOVERNMENT LAUNCH MEN and shoe trade, to house decor

exhibition of the Hongkong Uni- ...versity Amateur Photographic Club, we are asked le, state thil it will be open to all outeur pho tographers in the Colony and abroad.

SENTENCED. .

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A stoker and an engineer of the Sanitary Department launch No I were charged before Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith, at the Kowloon Magi-ut tracy this morning, with larceny of two tins of lubricating oil and a tack of rolton waste.

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He had received no communica- tion on the subject from any of the State Governments, but he would point out that under the grant of assisted passages was a rangements hitherto in force, the matter for the Commonwealth and not for the State Governments.

Mr. Ponsonby added: "I am satisfied that nil parts of the British Empire oversens, are The mutinous soldiers however, sympathetic to migration from this seized two corporals and one Brigade country, but the respective Govern- "Commander, believed to be trusted ments must necessarily reserve subordinates of General Wu Sheng. the right to control the movement and assassinated all three.

of assisted emigrants in ac- with local economic Following the incident, "General cordance Wu Sheng tendered his resigna- conditidrs, Ition to Nanking, and it was ne-

cepted.

Marshal Chiang Kai-shek has Jordered General Wu Sheng to pro- ceed to Nanking where he will be assigned a post at the Military Headquarters.

The Changteh mutiny is under- stbdo to be a purely local affair; with the having no connexion Hunan war.

RUSSIANS IN KENT.

-PROPAGANDA (AMONG

MINERS.

The question of the suitability of the various parts of the Empire for migration from this country depends on many factors which cannot be discussed within the mits of an answer to a Palia- mentary question.-British Wire. less.

THE GLORIOUS DEAD.

HONOURED IN SILENCE AT "CANTON,

In proposing the toast of "The Glorious Dead" in the Canton Club, Shameen, on Armistice Day, Mr. W. Galloway sald:-Ladles Two Russian miners are busy in and gentlemen,-have been usked the Kent coalfield trying to counter-to say few words on this occa ict the effect of the recent visit of sion and I will not keep you long.

London, Oct. 10.

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AFTER

THE

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The surest way is to always have

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INSPECTION INVITED.

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THAT WILL NOT INTERFERE WITH YOUR RADIO RECEPTION.

"Makes it safe to be hungry!”

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LOCAL PHOTOGRAPHIC Changchow. The exact terms sa colours, so that it should be pos

gested by the Kuomipchun levderssible for a woman to secure with-

aut trouble the whole of her out fit, from her shoes to her hat, in harmonious tones.

two Kent miners to Russia, Time is often measured in groups AN ELECTRIC REFRIGERATOR Pretically all sections of in-

One of these Russians is Georg or periods of years-n century-a. dustry likely to be affected by fashion in colour, from the boot Slutsky, described as a member of quarter of a century-the shortest the Central Committee of the All- of such periods is a decade. Last Russia Miners' Union. This is of the first decennium since the year we observed the completion the tion, were, represented, but

the same person as Georg Slotsky, women whose, tastes the new

Time is the Council are to cater for chiefly, of the Secretariat of the Miners' Armistice-to-day we are entering

International Propaganda Comi-pon the second. mittee, from whom two revolution-great healer, but alas it induces were absent.

Lord Ebury, who presided, saidary letters were found during the forgetfulness and in order to com- bat this inclination we keep other countries but their Arcos Raid, and printed on pages Armistice Day as "Remembrance colour organisations, and it was 9 and 10 of the White Paper sub- Day important, in these days of rationsequently issued. alisation, that they should have

These letters were addressed to The note I wish to strike to-day some effective body for the deter- mination, co-ordination, and pro- Comrades Aitken and Bob Ellis re-is one often used hy the late Earl

spectively, and were most re- Haig of Benmersyde. pagation of colour tendencies.

Mr. E. H. Symonds, Managing volutionary in fone. They asked time I saw him we were standing Director of Reville, Limited, said what the Minority Movement was in the beautiful little churchyard the Council would suggest the doing in the way of securing the in my native village-Minto

to the whose small and unpretentious but The first defendant admitted the basic tones for each season and election of Communists charge of laceeny, but the others all from these tones every manafag-Executive of the Miners Federa-beautiful War Memorial denied their respective charges. turer would be able to produce tion, and also asked for informa-graciously, bein unveiled by the As to Press photographs, feat One of the men charged with re-whatever range of sal-tones hetion as to what proposals were to famous Field Marshal. It was a be put before the Miners' Federn-lovely summer afternoon and the of the clouds were ustoms and commercial practice,ceiving intimated that he had en-might desire.

tion conference "by the organisa-shadows the following rules are issued:

aged a solicitor.

Colour was the greatest trade ions in which we have influence." chasing each other across the Exhibition prints in this section that shortly after 10 o'clock last

These letters are sufficient, to Border hills and down into the must not be smaller hall-plate 8120. night a seaman was on duty on the factor of fashion and was the mainshow that this man is a most im-Teviot Valley-a most entrancing! It was the predominating single launch and saw the second defen-

"Whilst we are honouring "the in this country pro- cant hand the oil and waste for part of the big stepping stone to portant revolutionary, and yet he setting. Earl Haig's words were the engine room to

moting trouble just at the time Dead, do not let us forget the the first de-a new era of prosperity for Bri- is at large

Living." No-one has done more

sampan. The goods were then

The exhibition print must be taken by the exhibitor himself in case of any dispute, he will be asked to furnish data in this res rect. The development, and finish- ing of the print may be done by any veveloping and pranting firm in

fowit.

Mounts together with the print smaller than 15′′ x 12′′ but act

smaller than 10x 8" will be a eepted for the exhibition.

¤1⁄4" x 49′′ op 16 em. x 12 cm,

Prints must be printed on glossy

** semi-glosy photographie papers. Glazing of the print is to be preferred.

Each "print must show" plaints its object..or "tell its story" and must be accompanied by as few explanatory words as possible.

Krints must be sharp and full af detail and of good contrust,

The prints will be judged in, ors der of impurtance for ta.! as in terest, the story it tolls; b) its technical excelk nee; (e) its ar tistic value.

DEFENCE FORCES IN PALESTINE.

INTERESTING STATEMENT IN

"PARLIAMENT, ·

London, Nov. 13.

Replying to questions in the

Two engineers of private launches were charged before his Worship with receiving the oil and waste, knowing it to have been stolen or unlawfully obtained.

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Detective Sergeant Poyntz said stimulator of the present century,

The last

Was

fentiant, who then placed it on board Lish Textiles.

"Mi. Holbrook Jackson pointed when there is the possibility of an for the wounded and disabled taker to the last two defendants out that there was no co-ordina-other miners' crisis.

tion among manufactorers and and disposed of.

A report was made to the police dyers. He illustrated his point

and the four defendants were arby one colour "Mary Blue" blue, but every one

which leapt into fame immediately "Marv Blue." rested

after Princess Mary's wedding.

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soldier of Britain than the famous. Field Marshal who has given his i name to the Fund we are support- calleding to-day. ́.

A provisional committee was ME W. Chittenden, of the Yau-He found in the West End no formed with Lord Ebury as chair1 muti Slipway, intimated that the fewer than 17 different shailes of man. first defendant, who had only been

in the service for two months, had próbably acted under the Influence of the second defendant..

The first defendant way fined $10 or 14 days while the second was fined 326 or three weeks' hard in- bour. The other two defendants were remanded till to-morrow morn- iris.

FALSE TRADE MARKS.

House of Commons, Mr. W. Laina. | APPLICATION FOR SEIZURE

Under Secretary for the Colonies, said the withdrawal of the specia! armouries formerly maintained in the Jewish colonies in Palestine for the purpose of defence was carried out gradually over a period of some five years prolr to the late

listurbances.

OF CHOLERA

MIXTURE.

An apdication for the forfeiture of a quantity of cholera mixture which was seized some time ago was made by Mr. H. C. Lee before Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith, at the

The armouries were withdrawn Kowloon Magistracy this morning. as communications Improved, and The medicine was found at No. the mobility of the regular 20-22, Jordan Road and was security forces of the country in-alleged to have borne false trade ercased,

marks of the manufacturers, who

issued

Z summonia

At the time of the outbreak, according

some sixteen or seventeen colonier against the tenant of the house.

The man failed to answer the

still retained rifles. The question

of the protection of the colonies

was being reviewed by the High summons, and a warrant for his Commissioner in the light of re-arrest was subsequently issued.

cent avonts..

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The military garrison of Pales- tine and Trans-Jordan at present consisted of the 2nd and 3rd Squadrons of the Royal Air Force,

This morning, Mr. Lee asked that the goods seized be forfeited to defray the costs of the prosecu tion and after formal evidence his Worship intimated that an adver

Ave sections of armoured cars, tisement would have to be inserted two infantry battalions, and then two well-known Chinese papers Trans-Jordon Frontier Force of requesting persons-objecting four companies.

Two hundred additional British police had been engaged for period of one year in the first Instance-British Wireless.

the order to send in their claims within fourteen, days,

RENTING

FFICE

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1920 MEA SERVICE INC -

"Take a look at 4 H. How would your furniture look

in that?"

The application was accordingly remanded until the expiry of the necessary time.

Now, alus, we mourn him also.. visited his grave little over a year ago. There he lies in Scot- land's Holy of Holies-Dryburgh Abbey-alongside Sir Walter Scott, within earshot of the murmur of Silvery Tweed, and close to his own family seat, Beamersyde. ITia grave was trewn with Flanders poppies and marked by an old Main wooden cross." taken from the Battlefields with the simple superscription:-D. Halg. 29th January, 1928,"

Do not let us forget the living. Let us Tollow Haig's example. Let us support this Fund to-day-no subscription is too small..

I now wish you all to join with me in drinking a silent toast to those who by sacrificing them- selves enabled us to live, Dulce et decarum Est pro patria mori. Ladies and gentlemen,

Glorious Dend."

The

SUSSEX ELECTRICITY

PROJECT.

TRANSPORT MINISTER GIVES

HIS CONSENT.

The Minister of Transport has

decided to allow the application

made. by the Central Electricity

GENERAL

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in

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M. MAJESTIC

At The

Nathan Road Kowloon,

Board for consent to the erection any time after the expiration of a Transport inquiry was against

of an overhead transmission line period of five years. from Brighton to Hastings, vin

Eastbourne.

lowing the line to be erected."-

The Mayor of Eastbourne, Lieu- "In addition to spoiling the

His consent is subject to further tenant-Colonel R. V. Gwynne, com-beauty of the country, the scheme consideration being given to the menting recently on the Minister's will ruin the rateable value. This Position of the line and its supports decision, said: "I cannot express part of the world, is definitely scheme. In my to the immediate. south-west and how worried I am to hear that the against the south-east of Offham Village, and Minister has come to this decision memory it is the most disastrous subject also to the reservation of n It seemed to me that the bulk of thing which has ever happened to power to review the situation at the evidence at the Ministry of Sussex.”.