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DOCUMENTS SEIZED BY

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FOMENTATION OF STRIKES & RIOTS ALLEGED.

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XAN WEREXXT SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1930.

HOBBS GETS TWO DASTARDLY HANOI

CENTURIES.

SUPERB FORM IN OPENING MATCH OF SEASON.

UNDIMINISHED SKILL.

London, May 2. The County cricket season open- ed with matches between Middle- sex and Leicestershire and Surrey and Glamorgan. The first was played at Lord's and the latter at the Oval,

wickets.

AFFAIR.

SECRET SERVICE MAN SHOT AT.

WAS FORMERLY WELL-KNOWN REVOLUTIONIST.

VENEZIA DODGES

PIRATES.

GUNBOAT CAPTURES A FLEET

OF JUNKS.

CREWS SWIM ASHORE.

An unusual incident, which is interpreted in some quarters as a piratical attempt on the vessel, occurred while the 8.3. Venezia, the new river boat, was on her way to Canton yesterday morning. She was approaching a point Although, generally speaking, called Lin Fa Shan, an hour's tranquility has been re-establish- steam from Canton, when she en

ACT OF REVENGE.

日五初月四

FIERCE FIGHTING IN NORTH.

BIG BATTLE NEAR TANGSHAN.

BOTH SIDES NOW SEEKING REINFORCEMENTS.

938 PER ANTUN

KIKOLA SOFT 19 CENTS

British and Bast.

British and Best..........

Bulls and Inners

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From the Office Butts.

According to a Shanghai paper,

Talking of motoring, we much

taxes in some parts of Hupch are prefer a miss in the car to a mise paid in chickens. Hongkong tax- in the engine. payers are going to get it in the neck too.

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A Kowloon husband, after read ing about the Weather Experts' Conference, said he thought it abould be made compulsory for all wives to display storm, warning signals.

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We hear of a local young blood who prefers the girl with the modern waist. In other words, waist not, want not?

A young man who lived near

May Road,

Each day down to office just

strode.

Once passing the filter, He wanted to wilter.

So he dived and swam over the

road.

TIENTSIN ANXIETY. Leicester won on the first

Mr. Claxton says the meteorolo- Shanghai, May 2. innings. Middlesex compiled the modest total of 196 when first they

gist's handicap is want of money. The strained military situa- Why worry:

the Soviet trading

Observatory went in to bat, Lee being the only ed in Indo-China, where a short-countered a fleet of junks whose tion in the North has taken a comes into the Salary Commis- the batsman to make anything of the lived revolution which caused subsequent actions, in surround-sudden turn America is involved in

for the worse sion's recommendations, doesn't He scored 85 of the considerable bloodshed, was re-

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total. Middlesex made a much

Remember, after to-day, that DO. have been found. recalling the

better showing in the Recond cently suppressed, isolated acts ing the Venezia, were such as to following the outbreak of hos- it?

produce apprehensions of atilities between the Nanking

careleas use of your dial may Arcos disclosures in Great Bri-innings.

Hongkong's fight to suppress result in your conversation being however, when they of violence are being reported piratical attack, By increasing forces under General iu Chi indecent books seems to be tain in 1927 which resulted in declared at 349 for the loss of five from day to day, one of the her speed, the Venezia was able (Officer commanding the Firs developing into a real Battle of abruptly cut short.

latest occurring at Hanoi o to outstrip the native craft and Nationalist Division) and the the Censory. April 22nd, being the at proceeded on her way.

anti-Nanking army under Gen-

A psychologist said recently tempted murder of મ Mit- Later, she met a Chinese guneral Sun Tien-ying at Tangshan "When you are very clever," that men of retiring dispositions tive official of the Secret boat and reported what bad bap-and its environs, on the eastern says a writer. "you are shut out who modestly keep in the back Service who at one time had pened. The gunboat, acting on|

Our sympathy goes out type. This seems to apply every- joys." stream and came up with the way, yesterday. revolutionary leader. Nguyen

auspected craft.

General Liu Chi, in asking for to those who write for "Bulls and where but in Government Service, Thai Hoc, but who had repudiat-

Inners." At the sight of the war-vessel: reinforcement by artillery, re- ed his former associate to serve the crews, numbering some twenty ported that fierce fighting took

A Chinese youth was found in a the Republic once again.

Hard lines: These telephone Hongkong pawnshop this week in all, jumped into the water and place on Wednesday evening near girls will get no more rings. trying to pass away the time. The affair, which was enacted swam ashore, abandoning their Tangshan where the anti-Nanking

O D.. under remarkably daring circum-craft, which were all seized by the forces under General Wan Shun- stances, is illustrative of the poli-gunboat.

choi made a stubborn attack on the troops of the First Nationalist

the premises in London being raided and closed. The Ameri documents are alleged to

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be forgeries and the trading scored a century in the open served as right-hand man to the the information given, went down section of the Lung-Hai Rail- from a great number of common ground are the most pronounced

Interna-

second

Lee was gain the outstanding batsman in the team, missing his century by five runs, but Hendren niso came to the team's rescue and

agency concerned states that it match of the season. He was 101 will prosecute the fabricators. not out when the innings was

declared closed. New York, May 2.

Leicester made 280 in the first Mr. Whalen, the Police

Cominninga, Robins taking five wickets missioner of New York, has for 81 runs. In the published a photographie copy of innings they scored 127 for the

Leen loss of five wickets. correspondence which has

Surrey v. Glamorgan, Beized by detectives showing that

од Glamorgan won the alleged Communist

the first Is directly innings in their match tional at Moscow

with for the fomenting Surrey. Glamorgan made 474, responsible

Bates and Hills making of strikes and riots in the United both

centuries. Bates was 168 and Hill States.

e correspondence which has exactly a hundred. In the second innings Glamorgan compiled a total of 205, Hills contributing 53. Jack Hobbs contributed 137 of Surrey's first innings' total of 333, Mercer, the Glamorgan bowler, taking five wickets for 61 runs. In the second innings Surrey made 190 for the loss of two wickets, Hobbs being 101 not out.

Hobbs now has 172 first class fie open-

Ju-

come into the hands of the thorities contains repeated ferences to the expenditure of money for fomenting various out. breaks and for the support strikes when these occur.

Agents for America.

One letter which has

of

been

seized bears the heading of the centuries to his credit. Amtorg Trading Corporation, theed the season in superb form and Soviet's official purchasing agents showed undiminished skill. This

in America.

In addition there are lists of names of thirty men and women who are being sent to America

from Russia.

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of

The names include Delglass, who is described as

Secret member of the Moscow Police, and the ex-personal secret. ary of Djerzinski, the organiser of the Cheka.

Suggested Forgeries,

Soviet officials

describe

the

documents produced by

the

Police Commissioner as forgeries. The chairman of the Amtory Cor- poration avers that investigations

is the fifth occasion on which he has scored century in botn innings.--Router.

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Australians Win Easily.

London, May 2.

The Australians v. Worcester- shire match has concluded, the result being that the Australians won by an innings and 165 runs. Worcester were all out for 196. For Worcester, Root compiled 48 and Walters 44.

Grimmett took 5 wickets for 46 runs.--Reuter.

SPECIAL MISSION TO PALESTINE.

tical situation developing from the It is not known whether any acts of the revolution. As such it casualties occurred from. the Division. was given wide publicity by the desperate action of the suspected French newspapers of the country, pirates when they jumped over- the leading one of which, L'Avenir board or from the gun-firing de Tonkin says:-"An audacious which was directed for a short crime such as this, perpetrated in time from the gunboat before it broad daylight and in a populous closed in with the fleet of junks quarter, and let us also add, a crime which is by no means an isolated

ÚKACCOMANDA

TORNADO DISASTER IN AMERICA.

Twenty-Three Dead and Huge Damage Done.

NINE STATES AFFECTED. Chicago, May 2.

Up to the present twenty- three people are known to be dead, including eight women. scores injured and half a mil- lion sterling damage done in' a tornado which left a trull of destruction across the nine States of the middle West.

Aeroplanes have been sent to the stricken areas to render help-Reuter's American Ser-

vice.

ALLANO 23611941 ARAZITATEARS BARCO DRITTLE14

will be launched immediately with SIR JOHN SIMPSON LEAVING act in itself, should serve as a use-

a view to prosecuting the fabri cators of the documents-Router's American Service.

The Amtorg Agency.

Trade between the Soviet Union and the United States of America

NEXT WEEK.

London, May 2.

The Colonial Secretary has appointed Sir John Hope Simpson, į

ful lesson to those who by their temerity and their snobbishness, under-rate the Communist danger." Dastardly Deed.

Heavy Casualties.

Most of us know where our money is going, but very few where it's coming from.

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The fighting concluded on Thurs day morning, but attacks by the Kuominchun and Shansi ailles Train were resumed last evening. houseboy in the Aaked for confirmation of the report, one of the staff of the New that fighting is still in progress at go, and the frat Nanking official reports state way be should Era Shipping Comvany, owners of Tangshan, with heavy casualties. the Venezia, referred the enquirer Many field picces have been rushed thing you know this morning to the Manager, who, from Hsuchow to Tangshan to re: he's gone! however, was absent. The maninforce the Nationalists, seen, nevertheless, admitted that

General Chang Wai-chang, the there was such a report, which

Commanding Officer of the Nan- from his point of view, was by nuking Aerial Department, has com race meetings one rider will missioned, eight bombing planes to leave for Chongchow to commence always be Heard aerial attacks on the Kuominchun of a great deal. stronghold in Honan.

means unusual.

The Venezia left this morning on her usual trip to Canton and back in one day.

DAVIS CUP GAMES ON CONTINENT.

AUSTRALIANS DEFEAT THE. SWISS PLAYERS.

London, May 2. The following are the results of the first rounds of the Davis Cup matches:

Moon (Australia) beat Chiesa (Switzerland) 4-6, 6-2, 6-1, 6-1, and Crawford (Australia) beat Aesch- limann (Switzerland) 6-0, 6-3, 6-1, at Zurich.

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It is obviolis that at local

Bozer's Second Buck up old man. Think of all your ancestors who have died fight- 'ing.

Losing Fighter

There was once a Scots- man who went fishing with a "baited breath." O Q This petrol tax will be all right if it dis- courages some of the rather, free use of gas which we en ¿counter Fondll; -hands thesØ

days,

Good luck to That's our Sunning just what I am thinking about. Boy.

The Nanking Military Command Next week if you should hear Before we know it, we shall be has ordered ten tanks to proceed a strange dissonance in the Stock expected to take out licences for Hauchow in anticipation of Exchange you will know, of champagne bottlee, on the ground severe onslaughts by the Kuomin- course, it was merely a market that they discharge cork missiles. chun army.

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Nationalist Plan..

crash.

"The man who lives the longest the is the man who never does any thing in a hurry," says a doctor. We know a couple of bar boya who are going to be very old men.

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It is the intention of National Government to open early attacks on Chengchow with the object of taking the city and thus cut off the communications of the Kuominchun forces fighting along the Lung-Hai Railway with their headquarters in Honan.

New simile:As distant as a rich relative."

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The topics of the week

Have been quite mixed,

From dollars very weak,

Which should be fixed.

Then we've heard about the wages,

A

subject filling pages,

A fluctuating topic, so to speak.

Or is a pop-gun really

Something lethal?

Or should a jank he

Fixed with engines Diesel?

Or are heavy ice-cream loads,

The situation in Hsuchow has! To-day's gold-diggers' chorus:-- suddenly become, tense and the "Any John with Jack is Jake.” Nationalist commanders have con-

口口 centrated forty railway coaches in Maier (Spain) beat La Croix readiness to despatch troops to the (Belgium). 3-6, 6-1, 3-6, 6-2, 6-3, upper section of the Tientsin-

Pukow

20,000 Railway. Some and Ewbank (Belgium) beat Juanico (Spain) 6-4, 7-5, 2-6, 2-6, have received orders to leave for Nationalist troops at Hsuchow of the Indian Civil Service, 10 The journal goes on to state that 6-1, at Antwerp. proceed to Palestine on a tem-on-April 22nd, a native, dressed in

the upper section of the line as Mishu (Roumania) beat Stola-aoon as Marshal Chiang Kai-shek iЯ now being conducted by the orary mission to confer with the black jacket and white trousers,

High Commissioner and report and wearing a white

rov (Poland) 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, 6-1, and announces the formal declaration topec, ap- four following organisations with

Tłoczynski (Poland) beat Ponlief of war

Shangi- His

Government

Huy Duong B

against the on proached Pham Majesty's headquartera

New in

York- The Amtorg Trading Corporation; questions relating to land settle- official of the Surete, and seizing (Roumanía), 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 at War Kuominchun combination.

and develop his neck with one hand, with the the All-Union Textile Syndicate, ment. immigration

Chiang's Proclamation. other pressed the point of a re- New York Incorporated; the Cen- ment.

Nanking reports say that Mar Sir John Simpson will arrive volver into his back and fired a trosoyus, New York Incorporated; and the Selskoseyus, New York at Palestine curly next week.bullet, which, after perforating the 5-7, 6-4, and Scheffer (Yugo-shal Chiang Kai thek has prepared

man's intestines in two British Wireless,

Slavia) met Soederstrom (Sweden) a long war proclamation denounc

the at Belgrade. The latter matching

Shansi-Kuominchus [Sir John Simpson joined the Indian finally lodged in his stomach. Civil Service as an Assistant Magis- Pham Huy Duong, who was simi- | was going in favour of Scheffer at leaders and accusing them of many. trate and Collector in 1889 and retir-larly armed, succeeded in drawing 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 when bad light stop-charges, which will be duly dé ed in 1916. From 1922 to 1924, he his revolver and, in spite of his ped play. The game will be com-clared at the opportune time, was Liberal M.P. for Taunton. He condition, took aim and fired four pleted to-morrow.-Reuter. was Chairman of the Indian Colonics ahots at his assailant as he ran Committee in 1924 and Vice-President away, but missed, one of the bullets of the Refugee Settlement Commission striking in the thigh coolie standing near-by.

Incorporated.

The Amtorg was registered in New York on May 27, 1924. has

u share capital of 1,500,000 dollars. The Amtorg is conduct ing trade operations between the two countries on commission

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basis and has taken over the liabi- lities and assets of the Products Exchange Company and of the New York branch of Arcos Limited.

The Amtorg is an extensive business organisation trading in every kind of commodity imported or exported by the Soviet Union with the exception of cotton and

wool.

DRIVING GOLF BALLS

INTO ATLANTIC.

BOBBIE JONES AND THE WALKER CUR.

at Athens from 1920 to 1928.]

LONDON NAVAL PACT

DENOUNCED.

places,

a ricksha

Assailant Escapes.

say.

Friedrich (Yugo-Slavia) beat Ramberg (Sweden) 6-3, 1-6, 6-4,

TENDERS ACCEPTED.

CAUSEWAY BAY.

Hankow messages state that ex tensive troop movements have taken place during the past two days, while last evening saw the departure for Yencheng, in the heart of. Honan, of the 25th Re- giment under the 9th Nationalist

Martial law has been enforced

The assailant mounted a bicycle | ROAD WIDENING SCHEME AT Division. which he had left some distance away, and made good his escope STRONGLY CRITICISED BY when a line of automobile traffic passed through between him and MR. BRIDGEMAN.

two soldiers who had taken up the London, May 2.

pursuit. Mr. W. C. Bridgeman, who was The affair occurred in the Rue de First Lord of the Admiralty in la Citadelle, in a populous quarter.

A danger to the roads?

Or is a rat related to the weasel? Should pirates still persist in

commandeering?

Does malarial research need en

gineering?

Or should ladies' legs be bare,

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Ladies please note:-Keeping up with the styles is bound to make you acquire new wrinkles!

Don't jig your dial E'en if the trial

Taxes your nerves and all; Keep a straight face Always, in case

You, miss an urgent call. Listen with care,

Till you're aware

What the hum-humming means; But if your friend At t'other end

Buzzes, well give him beans!. Always be sure,

And you'll endure

Even the wrong number" call;

While if you' curse

It will be worse,

Maybe your dial will fall!

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St. Paul's Cathedral

haz

now been completely restored.

Wrenovated, in fact.

The price

has of topees advanced. This means that it is bound to be felt somewhere.

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Or should uthers dye their hair, If all references were honest,

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Or why the moon had stars. Nearby appearing?.

some would be too good to be true!

But one thing still has got us very. After a recent court decision."

flustered;

For though it may seem quite a one is moved to enquire whether,

minor fault.

when Pop popped, it was a call.

Is it wrong with mutton to take to arms?

mustard,

Or should we be content to pass the What about Hongkong sending

Balt?

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up a team for the High (Cost of Living) Jump at the Olympic Telling an elderly female she Games In Tokyo?";

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in Hankow since yesterday morn- looks young i8. the height of vernment has accepted the follow-the

The Gazette notifies that the Go-ing, when news of fighting along Bappery!

Lung-Hal Railway was ing tenders:

Mesers. Chun Lee & Co.. $8,802.40, for road widening at

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received.

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A zealous young man of Taipo. Wes annoyed at mosquitoes, and

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He anointed with gall,

The heavy loads carried by Kow loon Ice-cream carts are said to damage the roads. This argu ment leaves us cold.

We read that the man who rides

As they supped watched them a powerful motor-cycle requires

fail, N

plenty of pluck. And if he uses Then laid, them all out in a row.. the Castle Peak Road, he acquires

lots of grit There's not much chance for a

"Hello!" and you "Hello!" alone!

Feng-Yen Conference the last Conservative Government, of Hanoi, and immediately after- Causeway Bay...

Plans for the coming attacks. in a speech at Weymouth to-day wards the whole personnel of the Messrs. Les Hing-Motor Trana- against the Nanking Army were said he very much regretted the Secret Service, and Police, were port Co., Ltd. for the supply of discussed at considerable length at London Naval Agreement because turned out in a search for the as- Akaike No. 1ump coal, at the rate a conference between Marshals it did very little in the direction Bailant, who is believed to have of $14.95-perton, to the Kowloon- Feng Yu-hsiang and Yen Hai-shan of economy, gave away the most committed the crime as an act of Canton Railway for one year from which took place at Sinstang last P.W.D: man to get to the top these The Automatic Phones:-Dial

evening The arrival of the two important part of our Fleet and revenge, with a political signi- 1st June, 1980- gave us practically nothing in ficance.

Messrs. Chong Tai & Co. for Marshal was known only to a small days especially if he's engaged in and the world dials with you:

digging wells. return.

The injured. Surete official was Kowloon Quarry No. 8 at the number of Ruominchun officers, at "If we are going to make this taken to hospital, where an ́oper annual ́rental of $950.

Sinsfang, the Kuominchun leaders New York, May 2,

We know of one man whose enormous surrender against the ation was performed, the bullet be- Mr. Cheung Yat-fai for Kowloon arriving in the city incognito,

|English is perfect but we can't The people of Atlanta, the home advice of all the best Naval ing extracted and the best of surgi: Quarry No. 9 it the annual rental Chengehow was unknown to the say the same of his Scotch.

Marshal. Yen's departure from town of Bobble Jones, who is now experts in the country, and if it la cal assistance being given. It of $860. busy with the Walker Cup team on necessary in the interests of is. feared, however, that the case

populace and it is understood that New Item: A motion before the boat deck of the Mauretania economy, then surely they might is a hopeless one for the surgeons. Quarry No, 10at the annual rental to Marshal Feng Yu-hslang a sum Club (Sons of Scotia Chapter) Mr. Leung Kee for Kowloon at the conference he handed over the weekly meeting of the Sawdust driving a hundred dozen golf balls have got something out. of some Into the Atlantic, have laid fifty other countries equivalent to the

of $1,250,

of $400,000, the money being for to the effect that crown corks to one with Lloyds on America surrender we are making," he "Buch are the facts, and they are Mr. Ho Nang for the rebuilding the support of the Kuoniinchun should be used with pop-guns, was winning the, Walker Cup declared amid loud cheers disquieting," says the Avenir de of four railway carriages at $2,800 Divisions.

held in abeyance pending a satis Reuter's American Service.

· Reuter.

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each..

(ontinued on Page 7.) factory report.

Disquieting Facts,

We've criminals of every kind, A multitude nefarious. To shoot or rob they never;

mind;

Our lives are quite precarious.

Bad men all Burglars, footpads,

Who bash and biff and run, But the one who's got the

greatest gall

La Willie with the toy pop-gani

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