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PLACID REVOLUTION NORWEGIAN VESSEL ROBBERS CHASED THE TARIFF TRUCE DEFINITE PROGRESS

IN SPAIN.

AGROUND.

"BRAALAND” COMES. TO GRIEF NEAR PARACELS.

RESIGNATION OF PRIMO FEARS FOR SAFETY

DE RIVERA.

DICTATORSHIP NOW VIRTUALLY BROUGHT TO AN END.

News reached the Colony this morning that the Norwegian steamer Branland had gone hard aground on the Bombay Reof, near the Paracel Islands, hind fears are | entertained for her safety.

First Intimation of the mishap esme to hand at 2.25 a.m. to-day in the form of a wireless message from the P. and O. liner Macedonia, which is bound from Singapore to Hongkong, siating:

"At 2 o'clock this morning, the

Braaland was between

BY FERRY.

SHOTS FIRED AS JUNK MAKES OFF.

ARMED MEN RAID A SHOP AT CHEUNG CHAU.

PROPOSAL.

BRITAIN DETERMINED TO GO ON WITH IDEA."

ACHIEVED.

COMMONS QUESTIONS. NAVAL CONFERENCE TO

London, Jan. 28.

Mr. William Graham, President of the Board of Trade, was ques- tioned in the House of Commons to-day regarding the views of the COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. Dominion Governments on the pro-

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The story of how the police. ati Cheung Chau Island commandeer- ed a ferry launch and chased men alleged to be robbers who had made a get-away in a junk, was told before Mr. J, S. MacLaren,

posed tariff truce.

He recalled that the Governments of India and South Africa had com- municated to the League of Na- tions their decisions against parti- cipation, while the Government of the Irish Free State had notified

"MINOR RIOTS IN MADRID. Bombay Bay Reer and the Paracel Asistant District Officer, New Ter the League that they

The Military Dictatorship in Spain may be regarded as virtually at an end, following a bloodless revolution which resulted in the resignation of General Primo de Rivera and the members of his Cabinet. The movement which brought about the downfall of the Dictator was started in Seville by the Infante Carles (the King's cousin) who refused to continue

in his command.

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General Primo de Rivera announced his own retirement after rumours had been rife all day.

His. auccessor is to be General Berenguer, generally sup- posed to be hostile to the ex-Dictator, and" the new political leader has declared that he will not act as a military chief but as a civilian.

Nevertheless, the appointment does not appear to be highly popular. The feeling among the populace appears to be upfavourable to the substitution of another type of military domination for the old.

Minor riots occurred in the enpital during the day, the disturbers consisting mainly of students. The trouble in, however, regarded as having little significance.

DRAMATIC ANNOUNCEMENT.

the

Madrid, Jan. 28. successor, with whom he has been After a day of most extra in lengthy conversation this even- ordinary political activity, of ing. hurried comings and goings A plenary session of of leading

National Assembly of personages, conferences - and audiences, arranged for to-morrow. It will centreing around King Alfonso be adjourned sine die, and General Primo de Rivera, i

Result of "Plebiscite,”

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Islands, 375 miles south-west of Hongkong, Leaking badly. Im- mediate assistance required."

From the local agents, Messra. Karsten Larssen and Co., Ltd., we this morning that the learned Braaland went aground last night, whilst on a voyage in ballast from Shanghai to Rungoon. The vessel is said to be hard aground, but it is feared that the heavy breakers will cause damage to the ship's bottom."

The s.8. Macedonia was expected to reach the scene at about noon to-day, whilst the Kowloon Dock salvage tug, Henry Keswick, left at 10 o'clock this morning to ren the stranded vessel at daylight on der aid and is expected to reach

Friday, 1,546 tons net, and was

The Branland is a steamer of built in 1921. Her port of registry, in Oslo.

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FIRE IN A CRACKER GODOWN.

EARLY MORNING BLAZE AT WEST POINT.

outbreak

favour of I

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ware In

Post Office Building, when four ritories, at the District Court,

Mr. Graham was asked whether men were charged with armed rob- he would undertake that no definite bery. The accused were Chan action would be taken until after Man-ying, Lam Yik-kwong, the Imperial Conference this au- Ling-yop and

Lam Kat-cheung,

tumn. and they were alleged to have at- tacked Li Chan in his shop at No. 411, Chung Hing Street, Cheung

Chau.

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All the accused were committed to the Sessions,

Mr. Graham replied that he could. give no pledge, but he did not think matters would in fact work out

that way.

Further questioned whether he seriously intended to proceed with the proposal in view of the opinions According to Li Chan's evidence, expressed by the Dominions, Mr. he was alone in his shop between Graham said: "Yes, certainly. eight and nine o'clock on the We have had twenty-six or twenty- evening of January 12 when some-eight acceptances from European one came to the shop, saying he and other countries, and at the had been sent by a man named | forthcoming Conference at Geneva, Yuen, so he opened the shop door intend to do my very best in this Wai Yuen. Li Chan knew Wai whatever may be the difficulties, 1

when he saw three man. They matter."-British Wireless. entered the shop, held Li Chun up with a revolver and demanded money.

Robbers Bolt,

Li Clina chouted for assistance and another, maka living on the floor above blow a whistle and rained the alarm,

The three robbers immediately ran away but were followed by a crowd of villagers until they

reached a place called Tal Shek Hau, where they boarded a junk

which was

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LAST OF HER TRIALS IN PROGRESS.

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BEGIN REAL WORK.

AGENDA FOR PLENARY SESSION AGREED UPON.

CONFIDENCE IN THE AIR,

The long negotiations between the various delegations at the Naval Conference have resulted in an agreement on the points of the agenda, and for the first time, practically, it can be considered that definite progress has been achieved.

The first serious plenary session will open to-morrow at St. James's Palace, though the subjects of discussion have not been officially disclosed. One of the delegations has stated, however, that the real intense work of the Conference will ..then begin.

An air of confidence pervades the Conference. In an address broadcast through' England and America last night, Mr. H. L. Stimson said that all the delegations are more than hopeful, they are certain the conference will succeed, and are determined to make a big forward step.

AMERICAN LEADER'S ADDRESS.

decided

London, Jan. 28. Great Britain will reduce smr The beads of the five delegations | Navy. to the Naval Conference at their

Mr. Macdonald's announcement meeting to-day

that

In Washington. last October, thes enough ground had been cleared Great Britain acreed to this polley in the course of their discussions of naval parity with America, did and private conversations to

more to relieve the feeling of an-

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London, Jan. 28.

justify the calling of a plenary xiety and irritation which had The airship R100, which set out session.

followed the failure of the naval As the British Cabinet Council conference in Geneva in 1927 But for the prompt response of

yesterday morning from Carding- ton on an endurance test, was still is held weekly on Wednesday than any other other single event." bas been the Fire Brigade, an

waiting for them. cruising this afternoon.

mornings, it was decided to meet

Mr. Stimson said the American which occurred early this morning Evidence was given that the junk After being over Lowestoft at the convenience of the British in A five-cracker warehouse at

nine o'clock this morning the air-delegates by holding the session delegation hoped firstly to make West Point might have assumed had one mast and one white sail.

fan" agreement with the nations: serious proportions and involved The matter having been report- ship visited London at ten o'clock on Thursday.

conferenca There was thick mist overhead the public soon becoming aware It will be recalled that only considerable destruction of pro-ed to the police, Sub-inspector and her huge, bulle was seen by Press as can be accommodate which would end competition In

As many representatives of the represented at the that important developments

Hopkins, with a party of police,

́destroyers, ́ ́end. were in the making, a dramatic Rivera sent invitations to all the

two days ago, General Primo de perty.

The seriousness of the situation commandeered the ferry boat Sun few people. After manoeuvring probably about eighty will be cruisers and announcement was made this senior commanders of the army was realised by the Brigade on Chan on which they put out to the for half an hour over the capital, admitted to the Conference Room secondly to abolish submarines,

the airship made for the English and it is expected that the pro- Abolish Submarines, evening to the effect that after and ways to tell him inmediately arrival on the scene, as the ware open sea. They sighted a junk Channel and was still over those ceodings will be made, andible to more than six years as Spain's whether the Dictatorship still house, No. 812 Des Voeux Road which tallied with the description waters when the Air Ministry was others in an adjoining room by Dictator. General Primo de merited their confidence. Pre- West, which forms one of the row given by the villagers.

means of microphones and loud Rivera has tendered his resigna-sumably the, answer was in the of godowns opposite the St.

Revolver Shots,

speakers. tion.

negative.

Peter's Church, was chock full) ..

over The Dictatorship

After the police had вля lasted with crackers. for a trifle over four years. The firemen at once set to work to the men on board to stop, but hauled the junk, they shouted come entirely as a surprise.]Gyperal Primo de Rivera led a and within a quarter of an hour they refused to do so. The police eight hours, which is suficient to ing's meeting agreed to an agenda, vessels in the ruthless and inhu-

an impending military revolt in September, 1923, they gained control. The main change of Premiership were driving out the parliamentary re-door had to be broken open, when gime and installing Military hoses were played on the explod rife all day long.

Directory. His ayowed policying crackers, with the result that Before the day was out, and was reform of government, by the outbreak was soon extinguish Apparently before the resignation dismissing unnecessary officials, ed. .had been " tendered though getting rid of corruption and

The first cal] was received by was within conslackness, augmenting the State the Central Fire Station at 5.50 and Li Chan, the complainant, re- obviously, it templation-reports were publish-income, reorganising education, ed abroad declaring that the and other progressive steps, in am. One appliance from Ken-cognised two of them as being with nedy Town and three from the those who had entered his shop, Dictator had voluntarily ended his large part of which he has suc- Central Station rushed to the those being the first and second ac- control of public affairs,

scene and their combined efforts cused. met with immediate success, the "stop" signal being given nt 3.44

The announcement did not

Rumours of

creded.

Tired of Job. Story First Denied, In the late afternoon,

Nevertheless, the Dictatorship semi-oficial statement was issued, has hover been popular. There denying

that has been none of the enthusiasm the rumours General Primo de Rivera had such as has marked Mussolini's. rosigned, describing the reports regime in Italy. On the contrary, as entirely baselcas. Reports of he only averted supersession by disorder in Cudiz

also a few hours by prompt action in denied,

1926, while attempts to assassinate Shortly after this denial had de Rivera were made in February, been circulated, however, de 1926 and again in October, 1927,| Rivera présided at a meeting of Latterly, he has been wearying the Cabinet, commencing at six of his gigantic task, complaining o'clock this evening, when he that he had to work 18 hours a pushed through a crowd of exeit-day, Reuter.

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ILLNESS OF LORD BYNG.

„TO MAKE VISIT TO SOUTH

AFRICA.

last in communication with her.

She had fifty-six people aboard, on what was described as a mystery fight.

She intends to complete forty-

fret soveral revolver shots across

cover three thousand miles, the bows of the junk which im- This is the last of the trials mediately turned round and pro- needed to prove ber airworthiness. ceeded in the opposite direction.-Reuter and British Wireless. More shots were fired by the police, after which the junk stopped.

Four men were found on board

FEARS FOR CZARIST GENERAL.

LURED TO DEATH BY BOLSHEVIKS7

Agenda Agreed.

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the next six years, and in the next six years thereafter; another four hundred millions of dollars.

Good Results.

"If we cannot. abolish subma- rines we want to reduce their number as much as possible and at the 'some time. To make an agreement which will prevent It is understood that this morn-their boing used against.merchant although the order in which the man way in which submarines items figure on it, is liable to be were used in the late war"

America further desired to re- changed by the course of the dis- cussions.

duce the battleship : programme A sub-committee, which will act below the programmes provided as a "steering committee," was set in the Washington Treaty. Mr. up to regulate the agenda as re- Stimson added: "An agreement quired.

regarding cruisers, destroyers While, outwardly, the progress and submarines would be the so far made at the conference. ap-greatest contribution to Interna- pears to be elight, the general im- tional good-will and, for some pression of the delegates and ex- countries, would also provide perts, is that matters are shaping an economy. For us the chief Arms Thrown Overboard?

themselves not unsatisfactorily, economy, would lle in a reduction? This evening the Japanese and of the battleship programme. For Paris, Jan. 28.

British Evidence was given to the effect

Commonwealth delera- unless that programme is reduced, that no uns were found on board

All hospitals and other possible tions discussed questions of muwe shall be faced with an expen the junk, but as the launch came places have been scoured, with-tual interest and referred certain diture of two hundred millione alongside the men were seen to out success, for the well-known points to the experts for report of dollars on battleships alone in throw certain things over board Czarist General Kauticpoff, who

Mr. Stimson's Broadcast, which had not been recovered. On was a participant in the Denikin the junk was found a letter ad- and Wrangel campaigne,

Mr. H. L Stimson, the chief dresed to Wal Chuen by Li Chan. General Kautiepqff left his home American delegate to the Con- Further evidence was given by for a short walk on Sunday, and ference, broadcast an address several villagers who spoke of folhas since not been traced. throughout. Great Britain and the

Later, lowing the robers and seeing them A feeling is growing among United States this evening,.speak-

An official communique states: Russian refugees that he has been ing hopefully of their labours in lured to death by Bolsheviks, by the past few days, because all the that the French and British com whom he was cordially hated delegates had learned much of monwealth delegations met this evening In the Prime Minister a each other's viewpoints.

"We have confidence in each room at the House of Commons 5 other and a determination to make and considered the report of thet experts on the matters connected: a long step forward," ON

There are Umes, he added, when with the methods of limitation in less Navy and more good will crava! armaments, It was agreed give greater security than vice that stage had been reached vered, and this is certainly one of when conversations with tho other delegations on the points those times..."

Continuing, Mr. Stimson ex-might usefully be undertaken.“ The case in which Yu Bang, I pressed the belief that the most

French Btatement, Sze and Ip Sui-wan are charged effective way to create and main

The French delegation, int with the murder of Kwok Ching-tain good will between Great mun onboard a sampan at Cheung Britain and the United States..of viewed by Router's representat Chau was again before Mr. J. S. America, was by an agreement to said that official negotiations at the London, Jan. 28.

MacLaren, Assistant District an equal limit to the total strength Naval Conference had undoubted

ly started The Bank of England announ- Officer New Territories, in the of their respective Navics., ces the appointment of Mr. M. Post Office Building this mornar a Anglo-American Parity. Sprague, Professor of Banking at but, owing to the absence of a ho had resigned and that his due Government would continue at theireles and Commandant Girier, mic and Statistical Advisor to the New Terrtorios, the case was and America is not a doctrine of The French delegates

French armen, Colonel the Harvard University, as Econo witness who is detained in the "Parity between Great Britain held on Thursday cessor would be.General Beren- posts.-Reuter guar, the Master of the King'a

have arrived, here on completion | Governors.

adfourced until Wednesday morn nayal rivalry, rather it is a slogan happy to see that the questio Household, who has been entrusted.

of their flight from Paris by Professor Sprague succeeds: Mr. Ing next. of mutual confidence as well as methods would first be discu with the task of forming a new

easy staves,

WW Stewart He was Profest alleged that the accused moons of mutual disarmament, and that the possibility sor of Economice at the Imporia! pushed the woman overboard. We In America know that so long in the French proposal Cabinet

University Tokyo, from 1005 to causing ber to meet her death by as parity is maintained we can basis has been reverted safely reduce our Navy down as (Continued on Pag

ed journalists, endeavouring to get a statement from him. De Rivera merely exclaimed: "Good

there are here "to-day!"

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London, Jan. 28. get on board the junk,g. Lord Byng of Vimy, Commission- Accused, in denying the charge, er of London Police, leaves London said that they had never been to Sintement To Press, next Friday for South Africa to Chung Chau, They stated that recuperate from his illness. He they had sot sail for Macao a few On leaving the Palace, General will be accompanied by Lady Byng days previously.

As stated above, the men were gracious! What a lot of peoplede Rivera made a statement to the They will spend the first fort-

Press, saying that the Cabinet, hav-night in South Africa na the guests committed to the Criminal Ses- Dictator Tells the Story. ing been informed of the reasons of Sir Abe Bailey at Muffenberg, slone, The Cabinet concluded their necessitating his resignation, and and part of March at Government deliberations round at about 8.36 realising that this entailed their House In Capetown, with Lord

Athlone British. Wireless. Tim. At least that was the time own resignations, requested him to that the Dictator left the gather-hand the resignations of the whole

Cabinet to the King.

The King accepted and requested He immediately made his way General Primo de Rivera to nisk to the Royal Palace where he all officials to carry on their duties conferred with the King.

until a new Cabinet had been con- The audience lasted approxi-stituted.

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mately forty-five minutes.

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General de Rivera himself : ex-

-Soon afterwards, General de pressed a desire that all who colla- Rivera personally announced that borated in the work of the last

General de Rivers paid a warm tribute to the qualities of his

Home to Supper,

"I am going to have my supper quietly. I think you will all (Continued os Page 12.)

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FRENCH FLIGHT.

AIRMEN REACH INDIA

FROM PARIS.

Pondicherry, Jan. 28.

A previous message stated that they were flying to Indo-China | Reuter

BANK OF ENGLAND..

AMERICAN ADVISER ON ECONOMICS.

1008 Reiter

Reuter.

MURDER CHARGE.

SEQUEL TO CHEUNG CHAU AFFAIR.

drowning

The real Intenso work would xin at the plenary session"

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