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OF BUILDINGS.

RUMOUR.

SOVIET INVASION | PREMIER'S SON IN LIMITING HEIGHT

OF MANCHURIA.

FIERCE FIGHTING AT TSAKANG.

ADVANCE OF OVER SIXTY MILES FROM BORDER.

RUSSIAN VERSION.

Tokyo, Nov. 22. The Russians have carried

SHANGHAI

INTERVIEW ON PROBLEMS OF EXTRALITY,

SAFEGUARDS NEEDED.

Shanghai, Nov, 23,

Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, the son of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the British Prime Minister, is now in Shanghai. The Premier's son is

the Labour M.P. for Nottingham Bassetlaw, winning the seat at the General Election after two un- successful contests."

Interviewed regarding the

than

their invasion of Manchuria far-future status of Britons in China, ther than ever before according Mr. Malcolm MacDonald said that to messages from the Rengo the problem was exercising the Agency's correspondent at Har- Government's mind more bin, who states that he has re-some. people imagined.

The primary object of his visit ceived reports from Hailar to the effect that savere fighting was unofficially to study the extraterritoriality question in between Soviet and Chinese order to be better able to discuss troops took place on Thursday the question in the House of at Tsakang, which is half-way Commons. between Manchuli and Hallar. He had been "Impressed by

Shanghai's buildings,

HONGKONG LAW BEING

AMENDED.

ATTEMPT TO CHECK EVASION

REGARDING STOREYS.

OVERCROWDING EVIL.

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There is shortly to be introduced

Legislative Council Ordinance to amend farther the Ordinance, 1903.

and Buildings

Public Health

GERMANS RIOT IN CHIANG KAI-SHEK

MOSCOW.

TWO FACTORIES DESTROYED IN DISTURBANCE.

COLONISTS TROUBLE.

Riga, Nov. 22.

The Soviet Railway Department has informed the Latvian railway authorities that about 2,500 Ger-

MAY DIRECT FORCES IN SOUTH,

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CONFIDENT THAT REBELS WILL BE OVERCOME.

man colonists from Siberia are SUCCESSES IN NORTH. ready to be transported from Russia via Latvia to Germany,

Passengers from Moscow state:

Shanghai, Nov. 29. After the victories of the Nan-:

Buick delivered prices Include only

reasonable churgan to cover freight,

boxing, etc. Consider the delivered

price as well as the list price when

comparing automobile values,

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Bulls and Inners

From the Office Butts.

"Notice to Marines" announces It is anticipated that the habit the 'Government Gazette. Surely in previous years of hailing a this should have been headed sampan at the City Hall after St. "Tell it to the Marines."

Andrew's Night, will this year be

superseded by engaging a taxi to

The following from Kowloon cross the harbour.. Rida Butts seems more suitable for

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efforts'

the "Office Butts:"-"Danger.. Save a thought for a brainy day. When a red flag is flying fring is Please. address all taking placeand it is daneerdus to "Matador" c/o H. K.T. use this path."

When a red flag was flying fring; It completely upset everything. The poor old-sign-writer, Got whiter and whiter,

For a fring has an ominous

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that when the Soviet authorities king troops in Honun over the proposed to send back these main body of the Kuominchun,

☐ ☐ colonists to Siberia, the Germans.

In view of the apprehension of It is explained that it has long rioted and caused a serious distur- the Generalissimo, Marshal Chiang residents of the Peninsula Hotel,

When a woman says she'll be been recognised that sections 183 bance, in the course of which they Kai-shek, seems to be confident of wo understand that a humane ready in a minute, she usually and 189 of the Public Health and destroyed two factories on the out- the success of his army lo. Central killer will be used on the haggis picks a minute about an hour

China. He is, however, some- on the occasion of St. Andrew's away, Buildings Ordinance. 1903, are skirts of Moscow. not entirely satisfactory. One da

The Soviet authorities, therein South China, due to the renew

what perturbed over developments Ball. fect is that while section 188 fore, decided to let them go.

A chauffeur was found the other limits the height of buildings ac-

led activity by the old Kwangal "Motorog:" Allowing your night sleeping in his car at one cording to the width of the streets

In this connexion, it is interest clique under General Li Chung-mother-in-law to buy a third share. of the public stands. The doxy upon which they front, sectioning to note that the stolen despatch ven and Wang Shao-hung and the in the car would undoubtedly parker!" 189, which prescribes the method from the German Ambassador in expected invasion of Kwangtung amount to third party risk. of measuring the height of build- Moscow to the German Foreign by the Ironsides..

Local Geography Hote:-A pen- In response to a question as to ings, deals only with the case of Office concerned these, colonists, Yesterday morning Marshal thousand

whether he thought Shanghai was buildings which actually abut who

We hear of a Hongkong Scots- insula is a narrow neck of land objected to the Soviet worth saving, he said that it upon streets and makes no pro-attempts at socialising agriculture Chiang arrived at Kaifeng from man who carries his wife's teeth in almost entirely surrounded by red to spoil the magnificent build- which front, but do not abut to Germany or to Canada. would be a pity if anything occur vision for the case

excepting on St.. of buildings and sought to make their way back. Hauchang and conferred with Gen-his pocket in order that she should water

eral Ho Ying-ching for two hours, not eat between meals.

Andrew's Nightt. ings.

instructing the latter to pay a The German Ambassador stated second visit to Talyuanfu to Some of these Не has interviewed many

that there was no prospect of the persuade Marshal Yen Het-shan to musical critics foreigners and Chinese to secure: additional information

Soviet Government abandoning its send an expedition into Honan to create consider- on Sino-

this policy for the sake of a few bus assist the Nanking Government in able discord foreign relations. He emphasised

sections 188 dred thousand German colonists Manchuli by wireless have proved futile.

extrater. on this point, and provide for the relations. The Soviet has appar- The Chinese soldiers on the borritoriality, was likely.Our Oense of the word abuty to both ently been endeavouring to keen

those sectionsThe special casethem in the country-Reuter. of buildings which front, but. do not abut upon a street has still to be provided for,

It is reported that Russinn troops,

totalling # cavalry and 1,500 infantry, plus a large section of artillery forces are now holding Dalainor Hallway

Station on the CER

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Garrison Disappears. The Chinese garrison of Dalai- nor has disappeared.

Efforts

upon a street.

Limited Discretion:

Sections 3 and alt Ordinance assimilate

to communicate with that he felt the real necessity for and 189 of the principal Ordinance for the sake of Russo-German the suppression at Kuaminchun afterwards.

der are described as exhausted after:fierce fighting and it is stated that their ammunition is running `short.—Reuter.

Russian Version.

Moscow, Nov. 22, Messages from Khabarovsk state that units of the special Far East- ern Army repulsed an attack by Chinese forces on November 17th (Sunday last) and pursued the defeated forces into Chinese terri- tory.

Over eight thousand Chinese soldiers have been disarmed, ten thousand rifles have been captur- ed, while a considerable number of held guns with their amumuni- tion and other war material has fallen into the hands of the Soviet forces. Reuter.

in

Chinese Reports.

afeguards, though the gradual relinquishment

Correspondent,

of.

|HEATED ARGUMENT ON MINING ISSUES.

GOVT. MAKE NO HEADWAY WITH OWNERS.

The two sections in the principal. Ordinance as amended by this Ordinance will deal with this special case by giving discretion

robels.

Last night the Nanking General- This year it issimo arrived at Changchow from will be the tum Kaifong to meet General Tang of the Peak lad Sang-chi. It is the intention of to lose his way Marshal Chiang to entrust the BRITISH REQUEST ON task of the direction of the armies home from St.

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in Honan to General Tang Seng Andrew's Ball. chi, appointing him acting Gen- eralissimo, during the absence: Many a local

to the Building Authority, but this SOLUTION OF WAILING WALL from Honan of Chiang himself. man would have

discretion is, carefully fuited in the interests of the building owner, -London, Nov. 22 by the provision that in the case A most heated meeting between of a building which does not abut Pre upon a street, but is built on land. Mr. William Graham, the

abutting upon a street, the Build sident of the Board of Trade, Mring Authority shall have no power Ben Turner, the Minister of Mines, to require such building to be a and representatives of the coal less height than if it abutted upon owners' organisations, ended to the street. day without result.

Corner Sites.

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The coal-owners' roundly con demried the Government's inter-

Two of the provisions to be ference in the marketing arrange-. ments and the plans for the es inserted at the end of section 188 tablishment of a Central Wages of the principal Ordinance deal Board, hence it is believed that with the special cases of buildings the introduction of legislation on sites abutting upon more than will be considerably delayed.

It will certainly be impossible to enforce the Marketing Scheme on January 1st, as the Government planned-Reuter. -

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one street.

The third proviso to be inserted at the end of section 188 of the principal Ordinance lays down that the height of a building shall Later. not be regulated by the width of any scavenging lane, or other lane, or open space, upon which such building may abut, if such lane or open space is not to be used as a means of access to domestic building (other thar. servants quarters).

Harbin, Nov. 2. Soviets troops began fierce 45- saults on the Munchurian armies under General Liang Chung-chia early this week at Manchuli and

Wednesday when

General

The discussion between the Liang found that his communica- tions with IIarbin and other cities Government and the coal-owners had been cut off by the Soviet is not yet concluded. It is an- Bombardment rendering it impos.nounced that the Central Market sible for him to obtain reinforce- ing Committee of the owners, ments he ordered the evaculation which drew up their own Market of Manehull railway station which ing Scheme will meet on November was subsequently occupied by the 27th, when the owners will also meet the Coal Committee of the On Tuesday evening Chinese Cabinet to discuss details of the reports continue, the Soviets at marketing proposals to be included tacked the Chinese troops at by the Government in the Coal Dalainor railway, station Gnder Bills-Router. the cover of heavy artillery. Thousands of Chinese miners and their families including women and children in the coal field dis- trict at Dalainor took refuge in the tunnels to avoid the Soviet Artillery.

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Civilians Killed.

When the city fell into the Soviet hands their troops flooded

the tunnels with water, resulting

NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE.

CLOSING FOR THREE DAYS.

NEXT WEEK.

New York, Nov."22. As next, Thursday is Thanksgiv. in hundreds being drowned, while ing Day and a Bank Holiday, the

others who rushed out were fired upon by the "Reds."

Offking Chinese reports estimate that over 1,000 Chinese citizens were-killed in this manner.

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Stock Exchange will close on Thurs- day, Friday and Saturday.

It is learned from Chicago that the Federal Reserve Bank of Chi- cago has followed the example of By Wednesday the Soviets had. New York, Boston and other places captured Mitshanhsien. Dalainor and has reduced the re-discount rate and Manchuli. The Manchurian from five to four and a half per troops under General Liang Chung-cent,-Reuter's Americon Service. chia succeeded in preserving

order during the evacuation of hundreds of wealthy Chinese re- aldenta from Manchull, which took place prior to the general retreat of the Chinese troops.

1,000 Chinese Perish...

Tokyo, Nov. 22. According to the Asaki's Harbin correspondent, refugees" who are arriving at Hallar report that a thousand Chinese troops and civi- Jiane, seeking safety in Dalainor coalmine from air raids, perished when Soviet planes bombed the mine, causing the shafts to cave in.

NO OPPOSITION FOR LABOUR.

LATE MR. T. P. O'CONNOR'S SEAT.

London; Nov. 22. It is understood that the Labour candidate is likely to be unopposed in the bye-election for the Liverpool (Scotland Division) seat rendered vacant by the death of Mr. T. P O'Connor.

Mr. O'Connor sat as an Irish The same correspondent reports Nationalist, his constituency con that the Chinese troops have taining a large proportion of Irish

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some

Height of Domestic Buildings.

Paragraph (5) of section 188 of

the principal Ordinance provides that no domestic building shall exceed four storeys in height, in cluding the ground storey. Storey is defined in section 6 (63) of the principal Ordinance as meaning a space which has a height of at least 9 feet.

Attempts are sometimes minde to evade section 183 (5) by making a

ground floor of about

feet in

PROBLEM

London, Nov. 22.

It is learned that the Mandates

sion to settle the question of the Wailing Wall at Jerusalem.

It is believed that the Commis sion is not in favour of the posal-Reuter.

The latter is leaving. Honan with-been a bachelor in the next few days for Nanking | f his wife en route to Hauchowfu.

May Come South.

hadn't hated

the idea of being an old

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Georgiana: Time separates the best of friends.

Architald: "It does. Thir- teen years ago, we were both Beventeen. Now you are.twen- ty-one and I'm thirty.”

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And after all the talk, the Prince of Wales hasn't fallen out of his seroplane

even once.

The more style our local

Rappers put on, the more boy

friends theo

have to put off.

Boxing is not exactly an intel

lectual sport,,

but there's a certain amount'

of uplift about it,

Interviewed on the present ten-maid. Commission, has received a com- munication from the

British sion in South China, Marshal Government suggesting appointment of a Mixed Commis-ment

Chiang Kai-shek said he was con- the

Father Bryne complains that The Hongkong and Shanghai fident that the Central Govern- there is no really good library Bank Amateur Dramatic Society forces woud be able to accessible to the public in Hong- will present "Tons of Money, a suppress the Kwangsi and Ironside kong. In this matter, the Colony farce in three acts, at the King's Febels within two weeks,

should turn over a new leaf. Hall (National Sporting Club), Covent Garden, W.C., on Tuesday, Marshal Chiang will devote his pro-attention to the direction of troop

The local churches will po December 3.] moverments, etc., in order that the doubt applaud our magistrates for troubles in the South" may nat punishing people guilty of impro- assume serious dimensions. Heper blasting. Jerusalem, Nov. 22,

ᄆᄆ The first sentence under the Col-may even leave for Cantor to per-

Bonally

direct the operations lective Punishments. Ordinance Pas been pronounced. The Arao against the Ironsides. village of Ashdod has been fined £3,000 as one of the twelve villages accused of attacking the Jewish colony of Beêrtuvia.

Other sentences will be nounced later.-Renter.

Village Fined.

ENSLAVEMENT BILL IN GERMANY.

an

LITTLE LIKELIHOOD OF ITS. GETTING THROUGH.

25,000 Surrender.

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"Sleepers Aroused by Tongues of Fire," is the heading given by a contemporary to a Yaumati out- break The other kind of tongues ·

On the fall of Loyang, the Nan are also effective if you live in a

Kowloon,Bat. king forces claim the capture of

O Q 25,000 Kuominchun prisoners and much military equipment and amTheatre screen a "talkie" of the We suggest that the Queen's munition,

Wyndham Street hawkers, and The main body of the Nanking invite the police to the show. troops entered Loyang on Wednes

day morning, the defeated Kuo- The Ambulance Brigade public minchun forces retiring towards vaccinators are keeping well up. Sian and Silia. The Nanking to scratch.

army is, expected to take Stan this

week-end, while their next task will The fact that this month's be to assault Tungkwan, in the Sessions were nearly a maiden is extreme north-western corner of

no doubt due to the influence of cricket on the character of the people. -

Honan nearest to the Shensi and Shansi borders.

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Berlin, Nov. 22. The Cabinet has declared that the Nationalists BIII "against the En-

Chengehow, Nov. 217- slavement of the German People" would involve a change in the Con- It is definitely established that How many bottles of Bass does stitution and that, therefore, the the 10th Army captured Loyang It take to catch one? two-thirds yesterday morning, and that over passage will require

20,000 enemy troops surrendered majority of the Reichstag.

Suggestion for Brighter Broad- height. This floor is not technical Bill is more certain than ever.

Consequently, the rejection of the at Shophepao, In the suburbs of casting:-Why not send over the

Loyang.

result of angling competition as ly a storey and the practical,

Its rejection will entail a referen-

The Kuominchun suffered heavy heard in a well-known Kowloon result is that the house is ave storeys high, using storey in the dumn of the nation, in which over losses in the battle at Lungneejai, club on a Sunday night?

twenty million people must vote for but they fared even worse in the

·0.0 non-technical sense. This of the Bill if it is to pass. It is the defeats which they suffered -- at course leads to surface overcrowd-general opinion that this is an im Loyang and Peiyang. The clear-compradore's chicken to come up Now is the time for all good possible figure-Reiter.

Ing up of the remnants of the to scratch. enemy's forces is momentarily expected.-Canton News Agency.

ing.

An attempt is made in this Or dinance to check this evasion by providing that for the purpose of section 188 (5) a storey shall in- clude any space having a clear height of more than 5 feet. This will still allow the provision of a basement. It may be mentioned that paragraph (6) of section 188 of the principal Ordinance is now to become paragraph "(6).

M. CLEMENCEAU!

非

THE ROYAL DUTCH

EXPANSION. ·

SHAREHOLDERS AGREE TO BOARD'S PROPOSALS,

Pursuing the "Enemy.

The Bank will present "Tons of

money," The subject is fitting you'll own. Though don't try to be really

funny,

The next time you ask for a loan. The Dairy Farm Staff might

well follow,

With a kit called "The Real

Milky Way;"

While the P.W.D. might wallow, In performing "We work, while

you pay!'

Then Whiteaway's might be

included.

With "Dollar Day Out in the

East,"

And the public would not be

déluded,

If Lane, Crawford's played "We

own the Yeast."

The Post Office couldn't do

better,

Than play something modern, of

courac,

What about an attempt at "The

Letter,"

Or

"Little Boy Blue" for the

"Force."

· “A Fireman's Life" by the fire-

med,

Should be lurid-enough for the

crowd.

While the Hongkong Electrical

wiremen,

Could provide all the shocks

if allowed!

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Miss Eileen Bennett, the teanic

· star, · has · just married a well- known artist. Now they'll have

D. O "Gene A. Cogical:"We doubt to "Love One" another.

... whether the Botanical and Fores-

It's said that the modern girl

try Dept. could be induced to stage

Slangyang, Nov. 21. Enemy forces aiming at Slang. yang and Fanching arrived at mine the genus of those evolved someone to hold her hand. Hankiang on the 18th instant Inby grafting. preparations for an attack on Lao- hokow,

an exhibition of local family trees, hasn't enough patience to play She evidently prefers It would be so difficult to deter bridge.

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What the rubber attuation ជ ថ The height of absent-minded requires is somebody with plenty Amsterdam, Nov. 22. The adjourned shareholdera* The Government 2nd Routeness-The two young bloods who of bounce to throw himself into meeting of the Royal Dutch Army is advancing along both presented cards at the stage door

What with shocks in Wall Street Petroleum Company to-day agree banks of the Han River, and of the Queen's after seeing and

hearing the "Folliés” talkie.

and then earthquake tremors, no to the proposals of the Directors, another unit is to engage the which include an increase of the enemy at Kochen and Shihwajai.

wonder we read that even crockery The season is fast approaching in New York the other day was Company's capital from six. hun- Yet another Government force dred million-florins to a thousand force from Nanyang is advancing when turkeys become birds of rattled millions.

towards Chitchuan via Changping Pray The Board is also granted free to attack the enemy from the front dom of action, as desired, regard and the rear. M. Clemenceau le fighting his ing the future issue of bonds, sub last battle. He is now unconscious,ject to the proviso that the share. and he is suffering from uremia, holders shall be consulted before Oxygen is being administered to bond loans are issued exceeding the patient, but there is practically one-third of the issued capital no hope of his recovery.-Reuter Reuter.

FRENCH LEADER. FIGHTING

HIS LAST BATTLE.".

Paris, Nov. 28.

These operations have resulted In the enemy retreating in two directions, towarda Pelho and Kingteekuan respectively. The

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These references to rubber The motor bus which nearly fusion suggest that it is likely to jumped into the harbour must become a heated topic, have forgotten, that the bathing, season, had ended.

It is hoped the slowing down of work at Singapore will not be con Malaya lost the cricket contest. sidered by the subscribers as a

case of base ingratitude,

2nd Route Army le lll in purgun but they have got our Governor.

Canton, Netos Aganoy, A