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PESHAWAR.

INDIAN AUTHORITIES

CONCERNED.

FORCES TO SUPPLEMENT THE RÉGULAR TROOPS.

六拜蹛 號六廿月四英港香 SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1930.

PRINCE FLIES TO ENGLAND.

CHARACTERISTIC END TO AN 18,000 MILE TOUR.

LANDS AT WINDSOR.

London, Apr. 25. F.R.H. the Prince of Wales ended his 18,000 mile tour in characteristic fashion by flying from Marseilles straight home, not to a public norodrome, but to his

Great Park.

RAILWAY REGIMENTS. private landing ground at Windsor

recent

The Peshawar Situation.

Peshawar, Apr. 25.

The latter is within a stone's throw of his new country house at Fort Belvedere and

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CHIANG VISITS

THE FRONT. !

BOTH SIDES RAISE

WAR FUNDS.

PEKING TAKES PRECAUTIONS AGAINST "REDS."

STUDENT AGITATORS.

Hankow, Apr. 25.

“ŞEPOY” DISASTER

FUND.

COMPANY DONATIONS IN THE SEVENTH LIST,

NOW $9,131 & £52.10,

The fund which is being raised by the Hongkong Branch of the Navy League for the dependents of those killed in the Sepoy disaster reached a total this morning of £52.10. and $9,131. The seventh

:1八廿月

MAY WITHHOLD RATES.

SHANGHAI CHINESE

SUGGESTION.

PROTEST AGAINST DECISION OF RATEPAYERS.

list of contributions shows dona- COUNCIL QUESTION.

tions of $100 each from The Bri- tish Legion, W. R. Loxley and Co., and from the Chinese Merchants! Clu

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Simla, Apr. 25.

Shanghai, Apr. 21.. The authorities are taking a

After a conference with the

Claiming that if the Shanghai serious view of the

minutes run by motor car from Commanders, Marshal Chiang at least £1,000, a sum of approxi- without the assistance and co-

few Hankow and Wuchang Divisional

The Navy League hopes to raise the affairs of the Settlement Municipal Council can administer events in India, especially the Windsor Castle where their Kai-shek, the President of the mately $13,000, and contributions troubles at Peshawar from Majesties the King and Queen are National Government, left this from those who have not yet sub-operation of Chinese councillors, which place all European women in residence.

The P. and O. liner Rawalpindi afternoon for the Honan-Hupeh scribed to the fund are requested. then they can do without the and children are being with-arrived at Marseilies at 5.45 a.m.

frontiers to inspect the Nation- The following contributions have 55 per cent of the Municipal drawn. It is believed that The Prince of Wales was lookingalist troops and the Nationalist been thankfully received: taxes paid by the Chinese, an at- military leave from India is well and he immediately strode defences. Marshal Chiang is Previously acknowledged

tempt is now being made in cer- down the gangway and motored to understood to have brought

£52/10/0 and $8401 tain local Chinese official circles likely to be stopped.-Reuter.

the Morignane aerodrome where with him $5,000,000 from the Mrs. Poker Player three Royal Air Force machines Nanking Treasury to pay the WL Stanton

to have all municipal taxes paid 50 from England were waiting. Nationalist Commanders fight-Hon, Sir Shouson Chow

A Shipping Firm

by Chinese into a bank from the The Prince of Wales was piloted ing on the Hupeh borders.

25 first of next month, and until Sir Horatio Bolton K.C.I.E., the by Squadron Leader Don and

Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall 25 such time as a settlement is Chief Commisioner of the Northstarted on his Hight at 7.35 4.m. Collecting War Funds.

Hon. Dr. S. W. Ta'o

25 reached over the present dispute It was intended that he should go

Kelly & Walsh Ltd West Frontier Province,

25 regarding Chinese representa- straight to Le Bourgel, but a stop

Nationalist and Shansi fin-Steam Laundry

50 tion on the Council. ferring with the leading citizens was made at the Bros aerodrome anciers are engaged in a strenuous The British Legion here with a view to the restora-at Lyons for petrol. The 175 campaign to collect funds for the W. R. Loxley & Co. tion of peace and confidence. miles from Marseilles to Lyons coming war. Mr. T. V. Soong, the In memory of a Friend

were covered in ninety minutes. Nanking Minister for Finance Seven-Toed-Pete

French Courtesies.

Affairs, is understood to have J. Scott Harston succeeded in raising $30,000,000 in Anonymous Donor Wine

J. T. Bagram .. Chinese brought by the Shanghai from French officers at the Bron aero- foreign banking corporations, part Mr. & Mrs: F. McD. Courtney

Chinese Merchants Club drome and they toasted the Prince of the money being secured on the of Wales who cordially returned cigarette and tobacco taxes. the courtesy..

Total...£52/10/0 and $9,131

W. A. DOWLEY,

Hon. Treasurer.

ia con-

Sir Horatio has a wide perience of India. He entered the service in 1897, was Deputy Commissioner at Dera Ismail Khan. in 1904 and at Kohat in 1909. He then became Scasions Judge at Peshawar and later Political Agent at Dir, Swat and

He Chitral.

appointed Deputy Commissioner at Peshawar in 1912, and Chief Commissioner in 1923.

Was

British troops at Peshawar are gradually being withdrawn and volunteers

are picketing the liquor shope. The casualties in Wednesday's disturbances, when the police were forced to fire on disorderly mob, are now estimated at fifty.—Router.

Auxiliary Forces.

Bombay, Apr. 25.

was

The Prince of Wales took off twenty-five minutes' later and arrived at Le Bourget at 11.35, having flown from Marseilles in 260 minutes,

When he arrived over Le Bourget the two escorting planes rose higher into the air and circled over the aerodrome twice while Squadron-Leader Don took his machine down.

In view of the Prince's incognito the public was not admitted to the aerodrome and only the British Ambassador, Lord Tyrell, and A Gazette extraordinary

of an officers

the 34th Aviation nounces that the Governor has, Regiment greeted His Royal High- directed the framediate embodi-ness, who lunched in the regimen- ment of 120 of the rank and file tat mess and re-started on his of the first battalion of the Great flight at 1.44 p.m; Indian Peninsula Railway Regi-

He was escorted to the coast by ment and 65 of the rank and filetan French aeroplanes in addition of the first battalion of the to the two British escorting Bombay, Baroda and Central India | machines. He flew

over St, Railway Regiment as an auxiliary Inglevert at 2.54 p.m. and Cape force in India to supplement His Gris Nez at 8:02 p.m. Majesty's regular forces in the event of an emergency-Reuter.

State of Slege.

Lands at Windsor. At Cape Gris Nez ten British seaplanes from Folkestone took up the escort across the English Channel. The air liner's route to Dover was followed. the Prince flying at a height of about 6,000 feet and the escorting machines at 10,000 feet.

and

Marshal Yen Hsi-shan is nego- tiating with certain banking in- terests with a view to obtaining a loan of $24,000,000 by utilising the revenue on the Tientsin Chinese Maritime Customs as security.

STREET FOUNTAIN QUARREL.

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The Chinese Press continues to 100 assail Mr. Ranaid McDonald for

6his speech at the ratepayers' meet 9ing and the decision of the rate payers to reject the motion for ad- mitting five Chinese councillors to the S.M.C.

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20 ..26 100 50

MEN ATTACK EACH OTHER

WITH CHOPPERS.

Protest to Minister.

DULUP

FIPUR ANNUM INGLE FT 10, CENT

British and Best

Bulls and Inners

From the Office Butts.

Should a re-tarred road ́retard' tardy tourats7

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"Maskee, Private" says a notice on a matshed on the Castle Peak Road. Is this an invitation or a threat?

My "Dollar,

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And your dollar too, Don't holler,

Although you feel blue. It once was so fat

And worth six shillings or But since then all that, Has ceased long long ago, My dollar

And your dellar too, Have gone where the

dollars go.

It's as poor as a mouse, Or folk in the "House," -My dollar

And your dollar, 'And, our dollar, as well!

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The China peny which threw a local doctor at Monday's Races wouldn't have any medical fees to probably reckoned it out that he pay, anyhow.

New Item:At the weekly meeting of the Sawdust Club (Sons of Scotia Chapter) a tender was accepted for forty-two tong of best Siam teakwood sawdust.

This will be presented to Govern- so, streets on the arrival of the ment by the Club for packing the Governor-Designate.

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Fortunately, thera at last good appears to be some hope that our latest hospital will be ready for occupation before the next war.

The "Maskee" can now be safely placed among "movements" of shipping craft in local journals.

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This is, no truth in the rumour

Wife: When you've had a few whiskies-and-sodas you ought to that a local contemporary was con- realize you've had enough, and ask templating giving a prize to its for some harmless drink like reader who guessed nearest the sarsaparilla.

date of St. George's Day. Husband: Yes, my dear, but

DO the difficulty is that when I've had a few whiskies I can't say sarsa- parilla.

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The latest howler:-Why doesn't & shoe-. maker breathe his last?

We hear of a

It is reported in a message from married coupis Nanking to the local Chinese news who share the papers that Dr. C. T. Wang has

made a verbal protest to the Brit-ame cheque- ish Minister, Sir Miles Lampson, book. Hubby's claiming that the action of the share is the ratepayers was improper.

counterfoils! Dr. Wang is reported to have Q stated that there are still ways and A Hollywood means to settle the matter amicably, actress says "I but if the results are unsatisfac-have never tory to the Chinese, there are other known a hus- suitable measures with which the situation might be dealt.

Peking Unrest., Following on the arrest of Com- munist atudents in Peking, the Garrison authorities have enforc- ed martial law in anticipation of disturbances by Communiste who may take advantage of the absence Two men, one with his head of Government troops which have swathed in thick bandages and the been sent into Honan and Shan-other with his clothing smother-the tung.

parts of the city have been stop All communications in various

vented from passing the city gates ped and pedestrians are being pre- between 6 p.m. and 7 am

ed in blood and limping from

at the Central Magistracy this wounds on his knee, legs and Arms, appeared before Mr. Lindsell

charge of assault and battery at morning, each concerned in

Sookunpoo Market,

complainant was a park

Special Meeting. According to the Japanese Press Shigemitsu, and the two Japanese Japanese, Minister, Mr..

matter on Saturday, when it was Councillors, Mesars: T. Saito and K. Fukushima, conferred

on the

of ratepayers to amend the resolu- decided to call a special meeting

effect this purpose.

Preparations are under way to

tion.

Kuomintang's Suggestion,

band to wear longer than six... months." Wear. what?

The "Retreat" we liked best was that in the direction of the Cricket,

Club bar,

"We are now passing the most famous brewery in Ber- lin," explained the guide,"

"We are not replied, the American tourist, as he hopped off the motor couch. ២ ៨ There was an old man of

Yarrow,

Who wanted his son at Harrow, The authorities objected,. "Twas but the expected,

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The Man of " the Hour is one who promises to wait a moment for his wife.

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Being hard up makes you realise what a Tot of close

friends you

have.

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Some leading articles appear to have been written at odd moments-this

is no doubt due to. thelucid intervals being so far between. ២. Yes, ita sticky weather, but have you tried your car on the Castle Peak Rosd yet?

What about using up those The boy had a head like a fifteen minutes in driving the new

marrowl

Governor to Morrison Hill and showing him how sure a founda- One thing about the talkies, tion British prestige has in Hong- they're making the public sound- kong? minded.

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In an official statement, the Mayor of Peking, Mr. Chang Yam-butcher and the defendant fish woo, says that concrete proof has been found that many University monger. undergraduates have joined the Mr. Lindsell enquired what had Communist Party in China, while happened, and Det. Sergt. Murphy The Executive committee of the

"John:"-Yes, we believe the 81 students arrested recently have said that the two quarrelled at Shanghai Special District Kuomin- We sympathise with the tele- Currency Committee is still sit London, Apr. 25.

confessed that they were members the water fountain and attacked tang held a meeting on Saturday, phone subscriber who, after a ting, and we have our own Ideas It is reported from Allahabad

of the Party, which was confirmed each other with choppers.

when it was decided to request succession of wrong numbers, as to what the hatching will be. that although no fresh diatur

by the large quantity of Cominun- The Magistrate asked why king to approach the Minister for

the Central Kuomintang at Nan-exclaimed "Tm through!" bances have occurred, a state of

ist documents seized..

they were not both charged, and Foreign Affairs to bring about the

New Simile:As common as siege prevails in Peshawar. The

Sergt. Murphy replied that it was restoration of the International paper heading.

"Traffic Returns," says a news- mortgages on Peak property: troops are holding the chief points

No May Day. Parades.

because the complainant was the Settlement, and that until such you've just managed to dodge it.

Yes, even after of vantage in the city,

The Prince landed at Windsor

In view of the activities of the more seriously injured.

It pays to go straight, so long Europeans are prohibited from at 3.58 p.m., the escorting planes "Reds," the Peking Garrison Com- both

They time as this is effected, the Chin-

ច ···· went to hospital, but the ese ratepayers pay their Municipal

as you're not a pedestrian. entering or leaving the city with passing off westwards as his manders have issued instructions complainant was detained.

"The average man doesn't know." the exception of Government of machine landed.

As the Prince prohibiting all mass meetings and

taxes into a bank selected by the one legal document from another"

The woman who threw an alarm ficials, all of whom are required stepped from the plane he was street parades by labourers or the defendant, and asked for a

Mr. F. H. Loseby appeared for Chinese Ratepayers Association. says a lawyer. This may explain clock at a dentist and knocked out to carry permits. Shops are clos-York und H.R.H. Prince George. greeted by H.R.H. the Duke of

It was further decided that all why some people mistake the will one of his teeth because he trump- ed and the gathering in any place Only a few people, witnessed his

May 1st, Labour short remand and a small bail. title deeds for estates owned by for the deed.

ed her ace, probably wanted to of over five people is prohibited.

Mr.. Lindsell agreed and

ré-Chinese, and issued in the names

teach him a lesson in his bridge arrival. Entering the King's car: Unconfirmed reports state that which had come to meet him, the are continuing with their prepara-2.30 p.m., allowing bail of $50.

The Shansi-Kuominchun leaders manded the case antil Monday at of foreign merchants, be cancelled and that land ownership certificates

work zloting has broken out in Kohat Prince drove to Fort Belvedere, histions for the establishment of an

be obtained from the Chinese and Charsadda. not far from residence near Ascot, where he independent Government at Peking

authorities. was welcomed by the King and and in this connexion Mr. Lo Wan- Queen. The entire journey from kan, former Peking Minister of Marseilles was made in brilliant Foreign Affairs, may be appointed sunshine.

Finance Minister of this new Government.

Peshawar.

Censorship is reported to have been imposed on news out of the Punjab and from the North West Frontier. Reuter.

Official Correction.

Simla, Apr. 25. It is officially stated that there has not been any rioting at Kohat | or Charsadda, and troops were not employed..

It was merely a demonstration outside the lockup at Charsadda, which the constabulary peaceably dispersed. Reuter.

SHANGHAI COUNCIL'

MEMBER.

It is estimated that he travelled 18,000 miles since he left England on January 3 for his African tour. -Reuler and British Wireless.

AMERICAN

STUDYING CONDITIONS IN CANTON.

students on Day.

Communist Massacres.

DEARER RICE IN CANTON.

CROPS REPORTED NOT GOOD THIS YEAR,

Canton,. Apr. 25. The price of rice here la rising steadily and bad reports regarding the crops are coming to hand from all sides..

No Right.

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There was a young man of

Fanling, Who said "bother the flowers

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Spring."

in the foundation stone of the War It is comforting to think that Memorial Hospital was "well and truly laid." There's nothing more annoying to a patient than having to lie on a slant. ་:

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"Why fag with hybiscus, When throwing the discus, The same body, has decided to Is a far more enjoyable thing!" issue a manifesto to the Chinese ratepayers pointing out, that the New Definition: An alibi Is. "Foreign Ratepayers' Meeting has proof that a person is elsewhere. no right to interfere with the re-when he is really in some other solution to increase the Chinese place at a time when he is actually. representation on the Council, and somewhere else. that there is no necessity for calling a special meeting to enable ratepayers to find a remedy.

A Kowloon policeman discover- ed a householder at his door at Lastly, the local Kuomintang 2-a.m. He, bad lost his nerve has requested the Minister for not his latch-key. McDonald to tender an apology In a recent case the police found Foreign Affairs to compel Mr. for his remarks about the Chin-envelopes containing money scattered between the safe and the door. This would appear to be running expenses,

Back to 1925.

We're the salt of the earth, And well worth our worth; We're the Colony's

acquisition..

grept

Some people may laugh, But we are the stai We're the cause of Hongkong's

great position.

Now the salt of the earth,

Is no subject for mirth, But most useful for revenue-

raising. JAN

So by raising our payro You've got nothing to say, We get it!

amazing!

You pay How

The absence of the Nationalist Garrison on the Hupeh-Hunan frontiers on account of the VISITORS.strained conditions in Honan is having a most detrimental effect on the peaceful country-side. On Wednesday, thousands of Com- munist baadits captured Sinti, little foreign rice has been import

Due to the drop of exchange, massacring over 1,809 people re-ed from Siam and Indo-China this presenting 500 familes.. Canton, Apr. 25.

year. The production in Kwang- ese. The town of Sinti, on the tung is poor this year, and in addi- Two well-known American travel- Hunan-Hupch frontier, is a scene tion to this the crops in the Pro lers, in the person of Mr. and Mrs. of devastation, and F.V. Field, are at present visiting residents have withdrawn to reduced and the authorities of one of the officials of the Council all its vince of Chekiang are very much According to the China Times, Canton for the purpose of studying Hankow, pending the Government that Province are prohibiting the in an interview with a Chinese been humanised, what about a polite, but some of these people on social and economic conditions troops' arrival. here. They have been received by. a number of Provincial Govern-is understood to have taken Kienli, province in China from which leave the Council, or refuse to

The same band of Communists export of ride from Cheklang, representative of that paper has little lavender water with the the Peak tram are afraid to take

which as it happens is the only said that if the Chinese Councillora mustard-gas?` ment officials and have visited the some thirty miles from Sinti. The Canton ordinarily imported conserve in the capacity of Councillors, Cinema Advertisement: The There used to be an old saying Sun Yat Sen University, the Ling government forces sent from Han-siderable quantities of rice Shanghai, Apr. 26...

Nam University, the Returned koir to relieve the villages on the Our Own Correspondent. Mr. V. G. Lyman, a former mem- Students Club and other places frontiers claimed that they have ber of the Shanghai Municipal of interest. Council, died here this morning.

encountered and defeated, the Before coming to Canton Mr. Communists, arresting some two. He was 63 years of age and was

and Mrs. Field spent three weeks thousand- connected with the Standard On in Yunnan-fu studying the cond were executed after a brief trial. Hundreds of suhpects Company. He was President oftions there, and previous to that It is understood that the

DEATH OF MR. VERNER G. LYMAN.

SOME RAIN.

The local weather forecast till

the American Chamber of Com- they were for some time in Shang-majority of the Military Com merce of China in 1921 and 1922, hai where they were the guests of manders on the frontier have re- and received a decoration from the Mr. Loy Cheng, of the Ministry turned to Hankow to confer with noon to-morrow is: East winds, Chinese Government In 1910 of Finance Our Own Correspon Marshal Chiang Kai-shek and this, moderate; generally overcast Our Gum Correspondent,

dont,

no doubt, is known to the bandits. some rain.

Now that the submarine has.

the Shanghai Municipal Council Wise Girl (all-talking)."

will do without their services.

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:‚il:་ 0:0. Nobody loses anything by being

the risk.

Seems to the effect that prosperity will to contradict itself. In such an event. Sino-foreign.co-

rise with the sap. This must surely refer to the sap who was operation will be where it was five Division in China seems to be ao prevalent in 1925. years ago.

multiplying.naky,

A horse named Slipper His Excellency the Officer Ad- fancied for one of the big races appointed Dr. F. R. Ashton to be a 400 ministering the Government has at Home. It may come off. Member of the Midwives Board, "Banknote Returns, says newa- vice Dr. Annie Sydenham, resigned, paper heading. Ours don't..

Many a cookboy left his last place because he didn't know what his present one was like,

belfry How does one drink out Today's stray bat from the

of a hiccup?!?