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HÄICHING PIRACY THOMAS'S OFFER TO US. DELEGATION | POLICE CAUTIOUS
SUSPECTS.
BENCH COMPLAINS OF MUDDLE.
"A THOROUGH MIX-UP” IN THE CHARGES.
"VERY ANNOYING."
The two men charged in con- nexion with. the attempted 'piracy en the s.s. Haiching who have been remanded from time to time while the Crown is preparing it case, again appeared before Mr.
INDUSTRY.
COTTON TRADE TAKE IT UP
SERIOUSLY.
IRON FOLLOWING "SUIT.
London, Jan. 17.
The Lancashire cotton trade is to be the first staple industry to. take steps to profit by Mr. Thonas'a financial assurances" al Manchester a week ago.
'IN LONDON.
INTERESTING SCENE AT PADDINGTON."
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KING ON TUESDAY TO SPEAK
TO HUGE AUDIENCE.
BIGGEST IN HISTORY.
AT BOMBAY.
VISIT OF VICEROY CAUSES ACTIVITY.
NO RISK BEING TAKEN.
Bombay, Jan. 17 Lord Irwin, the Viceroy, is at prosent on a visit to the Governor of Bombay (Sir Frederick Sykes) and is staying at Government House.
such
LITTLE ENTENTE SHAKEN UP.
MR. SNOWDEN'S BITTER TONGUE.
JUST REBUKE OBTAINS AN IMMEDIATE EFFECT.
“NOTHING BUT TALK.”
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British and · Best
Bulls and Inners
From the Office Butts.
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Although the bottom has fallen out of the silverdish markat, revival is predicted with the advent of warmer weather
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It is not anticipated that tha present financial stringency will be relieved to any appreciable ox- tent while it remains as it is for the time being.
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The latest explanation of P.P.C. Please Pay Cheerfully!
We understand that. In de- ference to Mr. Whyte Smith, the Forcatry Department has decided
Most elaborate precautions for The Executive Joint Committee
the protection of the Viceroy aro Manchester conferred for a long of the colton tråde organisation at
London, Jan. 17.
being taken, the organisation
The Hague, Jan. 17. "Welcome to London. I hope being carried nut on a scale never Mr. Philip Snowden's reputa- time to-day considering ways and
to formulate practical your visit will be a very success-witnessed before, on
antion as the possessor of an acid means. Achemes.
ful one," said Mr. Arthur Hen-bccasion.
The grounds of the Governor'a tongue has more than once British Foreign It was decided to encourage the derson, the R. E. Hamilton at the Central principle of amalgamation in the Secretary, greeting Mr. H. residence are literally swarming been borne out during the Re- future. This has also been en-
with détectives, who' rigorously various sections of the industry, Stimson, the leader of the scrutinise the credentials of every and to make a definite announce-American delegation to the Lon-visitor. ment with regard to the Govern-don Naval Conference ments offer later..
Magistracy this morning. With them there also appeared a third prisoner, concerning whom the the Magistrate asked:--is this the gentleman who was dying a week ago?
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Mr. L. R. Androwes. (for Crown) :----Yes,
the
Mr. Hamilton:He does look too well.
not
"All Wrong." ·
Looking over the charge sheets then handed in, his Worship' re- markod: It is all wrong hero. It is a thorough mix-up. Two men originally
charged with ' murder. Then they bring this third man in during my absence and charge him with piracy.
were
on his Pressmen who "arrived
AIR MINISTRY MAIL
BAGS STOLEN.
at
arrival at Paddington accom- Government House this morning It is understood also that dis-panied by his colleagues and cussions are now proceeding in the staff. fron and steel industry with a
Mr. Stimson thanked Mr. Hen- view to considerable extension ofderson cordially and introduced the movement towards amalgamą- his co-delegates and their wives. tion and reorganisation.-Reuter.
General Charles Dawes, the Ambassador in "London, and the Honourable Hugh Gibson, Ambas- sador to Brussels, had met the American party at Plymouth, this being the first occasion that all seven delegates had found them- selves together.
BALKANS POISON
SENSATION.
TWO MORE WOMEN FACE TRIAL FOR MURDER.
RELATIVES' DEATHS..
Mr. Andrewes:--I was under the Impression that all three were going to be charged in respect of the murder of Mr. Woodward; all three to be charged in respect of murder of Khail Singh; and all
Budapest, Jan. 17. three to be charged in respect of The mass poison trinis, follow. piracy. I have had nothing to doing the discovery of a series of with the drawing up of these crimes. The details of which other charges.
recently caused a sensation all over Europe, were resumed to-day,
at Szolnok.
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The Magistrate: I can't help it. Someone is responsibile,
Two prosperous middle-aged Mr. Andrewes-Could you give half-an-hour's remand to straigh-matrons, both of whom were unce renowned village beauties, were ten this out?,
Mr. Andrews also anid that all brought up, charged with ghastly he knew was that the charge for-crimes. warded to him by Mr. Murphy One of them, Madame Foldvari,) was in respect of the murder of vehemently denied charges of Mr. Woodward. He, himself, sent murdering her mother, her hus up two others with respect to the land and her sweetheart, while murder of Khail Singh and with the other accusel, Madame Michael Kardon denied that she gave respect to the piracy.
Foldvari's husband poisoned wine on the occasion of the Foldvaris paying a joint call. Mr. Hamilton:-1 think I shal
Madame Kardos also denied give you until Tuesday vo straight-poisoning her own child by her en it out.
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28 Witnesses.
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In the meantime. his Worship said he would fix 11.15 a.m. on Wednesday morning and 2.15 p.m. on Friday for the first two. sittings in connexion with the hearing of
the case.
Mr. Andrews said he would have 28 witnesses, a number of whom will give only brief and formal evidence.
keverting to the matter of the charges, his Worship said:-What I want is to have all the present charges as written on these sheets withdrawn and a new front sheet put in with all the names of the three accused on it. I can put a
first marriage.
She declared that the child was poisoned by a disreputable mid- wife who later committed suicide. |--Reuter,
CONDITIONS IN COAL MINES OF EUROPE.
LEAGUE MEETING REJECTS BRITISH PROPOSAL.
Geneva, Jan. 17. The Preparatory Technical Con- note in the depositions that, ow-ference on the conditions of work ing to an error, the original front in coal mines has rejected, by sheet has been withdrawn.
Mr. Andrew said he would again appear before the Court on Monday morning with the charges straightened out."
Charge Must Be Withdrawn.
the Hamilton: One of charges will have to be withdrawn, this being the one on which the third accused appeared alone charged with piracy only.
Mr Andrewes:-I never drew
it up. I never knew it was in.
The Magistrate:-You are res- possible. It is only technical.
thirteen votes to eleven, a British proposal for a seven and a half hour day.
The minority consisted of nine workers' delegates and the official representatives of the British and Dutch Government.-Reuter.
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GASTONIA MURDER
TRIAL.
Ladies Attract.
Much interest was taken in the arrival by hundreds of spectators, whom a score of luxurious motor- cars, with the Stars and Stripes fluttering from the bonnets, had attracted to the Station.
There was a great deal of attraction to the feminine element of the party, especially to the seventeen vir secretaries chosen from a hundred Government Office applicants in Washington,
Their beauty has been hymned in the American newspapers, and the general opinion was that there had been no over-statement.
Thief and Confederate Escape
in Motor Car.
AN UNUSUAL^ INCIDENT.
London, Jan, 17. After six mail bags had been delivered at the Air Ministry to-day two of them were anatched by a man who drove off within coederate in motor-car..
It is not thought that any document of great importance has been taken.
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Most important papers are not sent through the post, but are delivered by hand either by officials or Government messen- gern-British Wireless,
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"A Beauty Chorus."
for the purpose of writing up the "They are as pretty as a beauty visit of Lord Irwin, and a Moslem chorus," was the general comment. deputation to the Viceroy to con- Mr. Alexander and Mrs. Wedg-gratulate him on his èscape from wood Benn were at the station spec- the bombing outrage at Delhi ially to welcome the lady members recently, were held up for a long of the party, who included Miss time, first at the main gates, and Morrow, Colonel Lindbergh's sister- then outside Durban Hall, in-law." The whole party number-
about a hundred."
Official Party.
The British official purty in addi- tion to Mr. Henderson, Included Mr. A.V. Alexander, the, Firat Lord of Sir Robert Van- the Admiralty, sittart, the Permanent Under-Sec- retary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. R. L. Cratyle, the head of the Ameri- can Department of the Foreign Office, and Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, the son of the Prime Minister, whom he represented.
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The Viceroy eventually received the deputation in Durbar Hall. Renter,
SWISS FIRM AND THE DRUG TRAFFIC.
SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS BY EGYPTIAN LEADER
Cairo, Jan. 17. On the eve of his departure Within about an hour, Mr. Stim to attend the Opium Conference son was received by Mr. Ramsay at Geneva, Russel Pushu has "is MacDonald at No. 10, Downing. abed a report stating that it is Street. Their converantion lasted not improbable that there are for just over three hours.
half a million drug addicts in Egypt, who are apending roughly £13,500,000 every year on drugs. The Italian delegation, headed The Egyptian leader anserts Signor Grandi arrived at Vic- that a Swiss firm in 1928 manu- toria luter in the day. They were factured 4,349 kilos of heroin, received by Mr. Arthur Henderson. which is two and a half times the Sir Robert Vansittart, Mr. Craigle world's legitimate requirements.
He adds that this is only one and Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, re- presenting his father.
several similar factories in Céntral Europe,—Reuter.
Italians Received.
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NO TROUBLE ANTICIPATED.
Holhow, Jan. 17.
parations Conference now draw ing to a close, though the Bri- tish Chancellor of the Exche quer has reserved it for special occasions and in a good cause. To-day he found a target in the Little Entente and Hungary, and in consequence of his scathing comments, it seetas possible that the smaller Powers will now go about their task in
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Oh! Here's a song of our Le.di
So slow. So low;
So miserly,
With a silver base In this far-count-trée.
Where every man's feeling blus!: Yes! Whero every man's fooling
blue! 41,
Exchange our master one
and all:
We pay the piper to its call," Cruel fortune sparo us, Ono and all;
For this is the song of rue-ooh. Rue-ooh-ooh!
For this is the song of Rue! ᄆᄆ
Try those pickled onions and
call those trees pine-firs in change your breath in a phow
minutes. dorsed by the St. Andrew's So-
* Life
has It's compensations. cloty.
The dollar may be down, but the market value of second-hand cars is.up.
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A booklet has been issued in Edinburgh on the correct method of making and serving haggis.
There's this much in common The demand for mystery stories between a woman and a motor- ovidently still continues.
car-the paint conceals the years, but the lines give them away.
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The worst of these young fel- lows who think every dog should have his day is that they usually make a night of it.
Some of our
a different frame of mind, 1/ banting ladies
We hear of
Mr. Snowden's statement follow- are having # ed an announcement that the re-deuce of a representatives of Yugo-Slavia, time. Rumania and Czecho-Slovakia had refused to sign the Young Plan unless an agreement is reached with Hungary, intimating that a local resident there is ng indication of such an who is so hard....... agreement"in sight.
up that the only e things ho can Aukso is his fat
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"Some folk think it's never
At a meeting of the conference to-day when failure was reported. Mr. Snowden' at onco accused the Little Entente and Hungary of too late to. doing nothing but talk for a fort-crawl night,"
dozen people to get their sent in the cinema..
There were only two alter- natives, he said.. One wad to postpone the Conference until Doomsday. The other was to ipck up the delegates without food and without drink, and to keep them confined· until they "came to an agreement. "Some- thing might be done that way, It will be recalled" "that Mr. Snowden's broadsides against the German dallying had an imme- diato effect Inst week. On that occasion he was equally critical regarding German methods. "Plenipotentlaries," he said “ought to be able to settle things with out always referring to somebody else."
Concrete proposals were sub- mitted within., three hours and an Agreement was reached on all points speedily.
Delegates Renew Task."
It is possible that something of the same kind will happen with regard to the discussions on non- German reparations.
Immediately following Mr. Snowden's rebuke the delegates concerned were closeted together and made it known that they were fully determined to settle the question of non-German repara- tione.
Meanwhile, the question of the
has been settled.
Germany's Undertakings,
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Motto for Blus Bay pirates. The difference between a coup and a cop depends on “u.”
He: Dearest, I love you tar- ribly.
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"Rastus:"--Wo cannot Bay
"Watt's up." as the landlady said when she got a big bill; for electricity.
If somebody could only fix Jp this cut
rency question. exchange would"
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Dancers who are too heavy on whether the fact that Royalty uses their feet are not so bad as those a car enhances its resale value, who aro too heavy on their but if it were a general rule, there partners. should be a law to compel visiting Princes to walk.
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"Weather Returns," says a head-i
line. If this means the weather
The problem of Home leave is of the past few days, we hope not!
solved by the low dollar-you merely stay in the Colony.
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From a correspondent:"The reporters omitted to tell us, but it We hear of a local Aberdonian is to be hoped that the car the. who gave his girl a diary at New Assistant Trade Commissioner. Year, well knowing that she was driving was a Ruddi Ford. wouldn't keep it.
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A local soldier, questioned re South Sea Islanders hold races in relation to gravity, is alleged to "We read in a contemporary that cently on the velocity, of a bullet with fish. No doubt they have have replied: "The forca of plaice betting.
gravity was done away with on the last cadre course,”
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They say weathor-forecasters have a special type of mind. Elementalify?.
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Some of these gay old dogs, with their rotten tales, think they are regular wags.
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Hongkong will soon be air- minded, but, we trust, not light,
headed.
Maybe the reason why dresseA are longer is that the ladies' had to do something about thene stockings with the long runs.
Motto for parents of prospective members of the. Kowloon Scottish Boy Scouta' Pipe Band:-Train up a child in the way he should below. 0.0
An American safety razor com pany has obtained a concession to build a big factory in Russia; 30 cartoonists will have to revise. their notions.
It seems a lle strange that
ឧ. ធ none of the statisticians has gone The latest fur neckpiece style in seriously for tabulations on the has the animal holding rouge. number of brokers who have won compact in its mouth. It can endurance contests.
swallow 1t us fur, as we're con- cerned...
Talking motion pictures are pro posed by a miniater to awell the attendance...in the churches
What Home ofter dinner speakers need le not a watch but
A World Audience, When the King opens the Naval Conference on Tuesday, he will ad- HOIHOW OCCUPATION. mobilisation of Reparations Bonds dress the largest audience in the history of the world... Transmitters of the British. Broadcasting Cor- TRANSFERRED TO QUIETEN poration, the Canadian Beam Wire-
Kowloon bus passengers will DISTRICT,
less Service, the Trans-Athlantic
The International Bank will Telephone and Continental Tele
The situation here, following float, before October 31, 1030, a now stand for almost anything, Mr. Andrews:-I was not reapon.
Gastonia, Jan. 17. phone Services will all be used to the occupation by Cantonese loan of three hundred million except a lady. sible for this state of affairs. I The trial of the five mon charged carry the Royal Speech to millions troops, is quiet. No trouble is dollars, of which sum the creditor
A Peak parent has now decided Another plan might be to offer a know that Mr. Fitzroy drafted the with alleged second degree murder, of homes.
From the London Station of the anticipated and it is not liekly Powers will get two-thirds, and
in his own mind that the trumpet course of golf lessons on Sunday only charge put in with regard to the vletim being Mrs. Ella May. British Broadcasting Corporation, that foreigners will be subjected | Germany the remainder. the murder of Mr. Woodward.Wiggins, who was shot dead in
Garmany also undertakes to given to Temmy at Christmas did mornings. This was sent to me. The state- September last year when travel the speech will reach France, Ger- to interference.
The foreign community at Hol- consult the International Bank not succeed in keeping him quiet.
២ . ment in answer to the charge of ling in a lorry loaded with strikers, many, Italy, Norway, Denmark, murder was also sent to me: The has been removed to Charlotte, Sweden, Hungary, Austria and how is composed of six British, before making any attempt to
twą French, one Dane, fifteen
"Downing Street Chats," says a a calendar. raise a loan abroad, and in order statement in answer to the charge North Carolina, on the application Czocho-Slovakia, relayed by tele American and twelve Japanese.not to impede the issue of further newspaper heading. Let's hope it 0-0
phone. of piracy was not sent to me. of the prosecution. never authorized them to be put
Belgium and Holland will re- Naval Wireless. Feeling has been running high in Gastonia since the unpleasant in telved it from the Daventry Broad- Very Annoying.
eldents arising from the cotton casting Station and re-transmit. It. The Magistrate: It is technical, strike in the district. "but very annoying, His Worship requested Mr. Andtewes to take are. the matter up with the officials concerned.
It was explained later by. Mr, Andrewes that the charges in con- Murphy to charge all three nien nexion wth the murder of Mr: with the murder of Mr. Woodward; Woodward were put in, in the with the murder of the Indian Brst place, when the first two ac-guard Khall Singh, and with piracy, cused were charged. Subsequent How the charges got mixed up in dy when the third man was brought the way they had, he was unable
of hospital he instructed Mr to understand
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The men charged in this trial anti-Communista, Reuters American Service,"
REV, F. C. YOUNG'S CONDITION.
Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Finland and the National Broad- Casting Company of the United States will be served by a wireless relay from 6SW experimental short SLIGHT IMPROVEMENT THIS
MORNING.
Reparations Bonds, the Swedish Match Trust Loan of five hundred million marke will not be placed in the international market for four yearsRouter,
doesn't make Charing Cross.
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Women are not going in for business life more, says a writer, Cassar may have crossed the because they canape endura being Rubicon, but he might not have shut up in an office. You can done so well on the roadway near shut them up at home, either, the old Hongkong Hotal site.
Often times holding hands can
A useful and much-needed There are fower batha- boing/result in a misdeal. wave transmitter at Chelmsford, ...
publication is just lo hand; this be taken. In the Colony this winter, Canada will employ the Canadian
The numerous friends of the Ing the Kwangtung Directory but then, of course, Bunday morn A fur Beam Transmission, sklad
The Columbia chain of broadcast Rev. F. C. Young, will be glad to issued by the fret directory to being comer only puce a week ing stations in the United States hear that according to this published of Canton, and includes will use the Rugby Trans-Athiantic morning's bulletin there de a slight Fatalian and Bouth China mission- in his conditionaries. It is printed in English and Telephone ServiceRouter and improvem
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womana crying now
The simultaneous falling of the No hermometer and silver has given their mark cold feet to many of our citizens, are pretty sure.
oat these days
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