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PPR MIXES THURSDAY, MAY 8. 1930.

THE

LENGTHY TALKS ON EGYPT.

COLLAPSE OF

AUSTRALIANS.

DISMISSED BY ESSEX FOR THE TOTAL OF 156,

WOODFULL BOWLED.

London, May 7. The sensational collapse of the Australian test team was the fea- ture of the match with Essex at Leyon to-day, the Australians be- ing dismissed for the total of 156

runs.

This was their third fixture with the Counties, the two previous mat- Questioned in the House efches being with Worcestershire and Commons regarding the situa- Leicester. In the match at Wor- tion in India, Mr. Wedgwoodcester the Australians made 492 Benn, Secretary for India, read runs for the loss of eight wickets, a large number of telegrams and at Leicester only five of their received from India. The latest wickets were taken for 365 runs. news from the Punjab related to This batting form was not main- when the Sunday and Monday when xil tained to-day however, was quiet except for a partial australians went in to bat on a

tricky wicket. hartal in consequence Gandhi's arrest.

of

Woodfull, regarded as an almost unbowlable batsman, was bowled At Lakore, a European Sergeant for the second time in the present and picket, sent to prevent tour, his wicket being taken by H. interference with a light railway. Palmer with a fast ball which were surrounded by a large crowd but fought their way out.

An Inspector and a Sergeant had to fire fifteen rounds, "but ao casualties were reported. The situation was now in hand.

Another telegram

received stated the necessity for the Pulice Superintendent firing seven rounds at a crowd and it was he lieved that the ring-leader was hit, The Railway Police Station was reported to have been entered by five hundred volunteers,

Tmin Wrecked.

A telegram from Bengal this morning reported all quiet Hoogland Howrah.

at

At Chitagong four raiders were stated to have been killed, and Mr. Wedgwood Benn said he thought, that referred to the raid a few days

ayo.

A message from the Chief Com- missioner dealt with Tuesday's disorders at Delhi, in one of which the demonstrators wrecked a train in which the Deputy Commissioner and the Superintendent of Police were travelling. Other casualties were not yet known, although it was reported that some thirty or forty reached the service station of the hospital.

Hartal in Bombay.

kept low. This occurred in the third over of the day, the score then being nine runs for one wicket.

At lunch time the score had grown to 66 runs for the loss of two wickets, but after that Pons- ford was

dismissed for 39. To reach this total he stayed at the wicket for an hour and forty-five minutes.

Kippax was the backbone of the team and he scored 57 runs. He played the bowling very patiently and was at the wicket for two and aquarter hour. He was seldom able to hit out, however, and only had three fours in his total of 57. Palmer was the bowler largely He responsible for the collapse. took five wickets for 40 runs.

Essex went in to bat and com- piled 43 runs for the loss of three wickers before play closed for the day, Reuter.

BRITAIN'S NAVAL

PROGRAMME.

BEGIN AT EIGHT IN THE MORNING.

BATTLE ROYAL DEVELOPS IN NEGOTIATIONS.

SUDAN UNSETTLED.

London, May 7. Apparently 1 battle royal proceeded to-day from the start of the resumption of the Anglo- Egyptian Treaty negotiations at the unprecedentedly early hour of eight o'clock this morning, It is believed that the battle was over the Sudan question, a partial agreement on which was reached at the negotiations on the previous day.

There

was only a very brief

adjournment for luncheon to-day. Prior to this, however, Mr. Ar

thur Henderson left to attend the Cabinet Council.

He subsequently summoned Nabas Pasha for a private talk. Nahas afte

Pasha refused to speak the conversation, but he

SEPOY DISASTER

FUND.

WELCOME DONATION FROM THE OUTPORTS.

FINE SUM RAISED.

The latest list of donations to the Navy League's Sepoy Fund is noteworthy for appreciated contri- butions from two outports, Swatów and Foochow. The Navy League is holding a Committee meeting on Wednesday next to consider the allocation of the sum

raised. There is still time for further contributions.

Eleventh List.

N0.0's and other Ranks, British Heavy Batteries, and Hongkong Singapore Brigade R.A. Royal Artillery Sergeants

Mess Victoria N.L.I.R.

Members, Hongkong Police

Recreation Club Water Police (Extra Dona-

tion) *** C. Franklin, R.A. Ord.

Carpe Pariet Zoroastrian Charity

Finds

10.00 10.00

10.00

·日十月四

SIA FEB ANJUM SINGLE . GOPY 10 DENTA

AMAZING CHURCH NEW ADMIRAL OF

DISPUTE.

SINGAPORE CHAPLAIN TURNED DOWN.

PARISHIONERS REFUSE VIEWS OF COUNCIL.

A STORMY MEETING.

THE FLEET.

PROMOTION FOR THE HERO OF ZEEBRUGGE EXPLOIT.

SIR ROGER KEYES.

British and Beat.

British and Best.

GROSS CRUELTY TO GIRL.

YOUNG WOMAN SENT TO PRISON.

REVOLTING ILL-TREATMENT

* OF MUI-TSAL.

London, May 7. The Admiralty announces that Admiral Sir S. A. Gough-Calthorpe has retired. Admiral Sir Roger Keyes hns been promoted Admiral of the Fleet and Vice- IMMERSED IN WATER. Admiral Sir A. A. M. Duff has been promoted Admiral-Reuter.

to

One of the worst instances of

Singapore, Apr. 29. A situation unprecedented in

The Hon. Sir Somerset Arthur cruelty to a mui-tsai, was de the history of the Church of Gough-Calthorpe was promoted tailed in a case against Chau Ho, England in Malaya has arisen Admiral of the Fleet in 1925. He as a result of the annual paro- and was Naval Attache to Russia, Grantham at the Central Police entered the Royal Navy in 1878a young woman, before Mr. The following contributions have chial meeting held in St. An Norway and Sweden from 1902 to Court to-day. The woman was been thankfully received:

drew's School, Singapore, last 1905. He was Captain of the charged with ill-treating her Previously acknowledged

night. The trouble which has Fleet in the Home Fleet in 1900 mui-tsai, a girl of five, and in £62/D and $13,099.00 now come to a head has been and 1910 and was Rear-Admiral the course of the proceedings, it Officers, Warrant Officers

brewing for some months and of the 1st. Battle Squadron two was disclosed that she was in creating an undercurrent of ill- years later. During the first the habit of immersing the feeling in Church circles, and two years of the war he command-child in a jar of water and 138.30 now the situation is further com- ed the 2nd Cruiser Squadron, then afterwards putting her out on became Second Sea Lord and was the roof to dry. Other cruel plicated.

Commander in The point at issue is the a Mediterranean from 1917 to 1919. child to the wall and beating

Chiet of the

acts were of suspending, the pointment of a Cathedral chaplain, 150.00 a position which fell vacant on Later he was High Commissioner her with a heavy piece of fire-

the retirement of the Von. Arch at Constantinople, Commander in 5.00 deacon Swindell. In the interval Chief, Portsmouth, and first and wood for hours on end, her cries

the Rev. J. V. Westlake has been principal A.D.C. to His Majesty. being stifled with a gag.

Mr. H. R. Butters, prosecuting Admiral Sir Roger Kayes is beat for the Secretariat of Chinese acting chaplain, and two bodies of 50.00 opinion have sprung up as to whe known for his exploits at Zee-Affairs, said the little girl lived

ther or not he should be con- brugge when he was in command with her mistress.

or adopted 40.00 firmed in the post or a new ap of the operations there on April parent, on the first floor of No. 8, 50.00 pointment made.

23, 1918. He has a distinguished Kin Sau Lane, in a sort of bunk record and latterly has been Com-raised above the level of the first 100.00

mander in Chief of the Mediter floor. Inspector J. Murphy would ranean Station, and more recently be giving evidence as to the lay- Commander in Chief of the Ports-out of the premises. mouth Station.

Early on. Monday morning, one Vice-Admiral Sir A. A. M. Duff of the neighbours reported to the commanded H.M.S. Birmingham police that the defendant had from 1914 to 1916, this being the beaten the child very severely on first British warship to sink a Saturday night, and also during

Other neighbours, German submarine. He took part the night. in the actions at Heligoland Bight, would be prepared to come for-

ward to give the Dagger Bank and at Jutland.

confirmatory For the last two years he has been evidence of the assault. Dr. G. E. Thomas had examined the girl on Admiral Commanding Reserves,

two occasions-on- the 5th at the request of the police, and again on the 7th at his (Mr. Butters"), request.

looked agitated.

The plenary conference of all "Dandy Coons" Concert

Was resumed at

(part proceeds) the delegates three o'clock this afternoon. Java-China-Japan Lija..

Imperial Chemical indus- Reuter.

tiler (China). Ltd. Prison Officers and Mem- ber, Offeers, Moss (per kind favour of Mr. J. W. Franks)

her "D." per kind favour of The Newspaper Enter- mits Ltd. priso

.

Cabinet to Consider.

London, May 7. The negotiations with the Egyp- tian delegation have continued all day since eight o'clock this morning, with an interruption only for lunch and dinner.

They are being resumed again at nine o'clock this evening and session until the early hours of to-morrow morning is probable. A Cabinet meeting will be held to- morrow morning when the position will come before the Ministers, Efforts are being made to achieve some definite result to-morrow.

Mr. Henderson the Foreign Sec- retary, has postponed his departure for Paris on the way to Geneva from to-morrow morning until the

UNDER CONSIDERATION BUT afternoon.

NOT DECIDED.

London, May 7. Asked whether his attention had The latest report from Bombay.heen called to Italy's new Naval dated yesterday, states that rea-programme to build twenty-nine erally speaking the situation Was warships, Mr. A. V. Alexander. still quiet following the arrest of First Lord of the Admiralty, re- Gandhi. A hartal meeting held in

plied that the Admiralty was Bombay was conducted peacefully,

aware of the proposed Italian pro- The hartal started on Monday and

gramme. was continued on Tuesday.

In the mill areas, although the mills are more or less quiet, fifty per cent, of the workers were at work. Troops continued to be held in readiness. In Surat the situa- tion was quiet and some shops were opened.

A message this morning stated that, according to reports received. disturbances had occurred on Wednesday or Thursday.--British Wireless.

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It was usual for a country's Naval requirements to be con- sidered every Spring, so there was nothing unusual in the announce ment.

of

The actual situation is that the matter of the Sudan is still unset- tled and is still under discussion. At the same time, discussion is con- tinuing on other points such as the question of troops in the Canal raised again since Zone-points which have been the Egyptian courier arrived from Egypt with the observations of the Cairo Cabinet upon references made to them.- British Wireless,

New Proposals.

negotia-

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Sergeants*

nts Mess, 2nd KOS.B.

Thot. Cook and Son, Ltd. Mors. Defauré de la Prade,

Consul for France Members, and Friends Gar-

rison & Sergeants Mess Calibas

George Grimble Members. Craigengower

Cricket Club Members, Canton Club Members, R.E.; W.O.'s and Members, Foochow Club..

Sergeants' Mess The British Community, Svatow (per kind favour of H.M. Consul, Mr. A. G. Major)

Total

5.00

Report not Accepted. As the result of a meeting of the Parochial Church Council held at 10.00 | Bishopsbourne on Mar. 7, presid- ed over by the Bishop of the diocese, at which Mr. Westlake's appointment was turned down by 32.00 six votes to four, the Bishop was 25.80 instructed to offer the post to the Rev. Kenneth McPherson, warden 25.00 of St. Thomas's College, Colombo.

McPherson The Rev. K. 32.00 10.00

has

since accepted and expects to take 25.00 up his duties about the middle of November. A new turn has now 35,00 been given to the whole affair by 70.00 last night's decision declining, by 83 votes to 17, to accept the Coun. 37.00 cll's report. 136.78

200,00

St. Andrew's School hall,, in which the meeting was held, was crowded, a considerable number of those present being Chinese and Indians. Upon the first call for ....£52/10 and $14,395,08 a show of hands, there was ap

parently a large majority in favour W. A. DOWLEY,

of the Council's decision, and the question was raised as to whether Hon. Treasurer.. all the Indians and Chinese pre- sent had been able to follow the discussion.

Alexandra Buildings.

SPURIOUS PICTURE.

SCANDAL..

GRANDSON OF A FAMOUS PAINTER INVOLVED..

Paris, May 7.

Question of Voters..

RUSSIA STILL HOLDS: CHINESE.

ALLEGED SEIZURE OF PROPERTY.

Doctor's: Evidence.

Dr. G.. H. Thomas, Government Medical Officer, testified to having examined the girl, and finding numerous marks of injury on her body. There was a big bump or Nanking, May 6,

swelling on the back-part of the From reliable information it is child's head, and a swelling of reported that up to May 3, no blood around both eyes. She had Soviet reply had been received by a dark bruise on the chin, and a the Chinese authorities regarding cut on the upper and lower lip. the release of Chinese nationals, He also found numerous linear about one hundred of whom are bruises, on the back, buttocks and still held of Vladivostok on alleged thighs.

the

charges of spying, counter- As to the bump.om the back of revolution, etc., though actually the head, witness agreed with Mr. arrested on account of the lust Butters that it might have been An Asiatic member then said Sino-Russian dispute.

caused by a fall... that the members of St. Peter's' It is now revealed that at the

The property seized totals two Regarding the condition of the first meeting after the first plen-

Church (the Church of England hundred thousand roubles, only a girl's eyes, witness said that it in Singapore för Tamils) had been small portion of which has been was ary session a set of counter pro-

a common experience that An intimation

this proposals

told that if anything was

said returned. to the Mahmoud draft

when they had a bump on the back gramme was not specifically given treaty was put forward.

against the Bishop, they were to Mr. Hen-

House taxes have been raised of the head, a suffusion of blood. at the London Naval Conference. derson then reminded the Egyptian

vote against it. The Rev. J. V ten times, and wholesale confisca- around the eyes would be causedl. Our own programme

was under

Westlake said that he was in the tion follows when tenants are In any event, the swelling was delegation that it had gone to Lon. consideration but he was unable don to discuss the draft treaty, and of the famous landscape painter,ing to decide who should be allow.

Jean Charles Millet, grandson:extremely difficult position of hav. unable to pay.

too uniform to have been caused to say what it would be.-Reuter not to recommend new

Out-going passports formerly by any blow. The cut on Jean Francois Millett, and hised to vote. Finally, he called for issued by the Foreign Affairs sec-tips was, however, the result of a tions. It was then decided to dia- friend, Cazeau; have been arrested a.show of hands from those people tion are now in charge of the direct blow.. cuss the draft treaty in the light in connexion with a great picture present who were definitely asso-commercial agencies, causing of the Egyptian Government's ob-j

forgeries acandal,

ciated with the Cathedral, namely, delay and losses to Chinese servations.

Millet, and Cazeau, are alleged those who, having been baptised in nationals-Canton News Agency. This called for an Egyptian memorandum of criticisms of the to have sold in English customer the Church of England, were re draft treaty, which was tant number of pictures purporting gular worshippers at the Cathe amount to counter-proposals. The to be the work of Jean Francois dral.

A second vote was then: taken, chief of these, which strike at the Millet which were really painted

from these only, and the result foundations of the Mahmoud draft, by Cazeau. the The Colony was visited by a

According to the newspapers, was in favour of the opposition in are: (1) Dus military control of heavy rainstorm last night and dur- the Suez Canal; British troops toe Haymakers," is in Scotland's the Chinese present thereupon be one of the spurious Millet pictures the ratio already stated. Two of coming the greater part of the fore- guard the Eastern bank and Egypt National Gallery at Edinburgh- gan to protest against the fact

noon to-day.

fan the Western. (2) The imme-

Reuter. As a result, a fall of 3.16 inches diate return of Egyptian troops to

that a vote was, nol taken from alt [Jean Francois Millett (1814- the parishioners, na such. They

Moslem Alcofness.

London, May 7. In reply to Mr. Baldwin. Mr. Wedgwood Bena stated in the House of Commons to-day that except for parts of the Bombay Presidency and one district on the North West Frontier the rural

were not affected in disturbances in India.

Moreover, the Mostum munity had generally held aloof from the civil disobedience cam-

areas

paign and two recent labour dis

putes has ended.

OVER THREE INCHES

OF RAIN.

WELCOME FALL RECORDED

FOR TO-DAY.

Egyptian and British officials.

JUDGE REJECTED BY SENATE

ALLEGED UNFIT TO SIT, IN SUPREME COURT.

Washington, May 7

?

The Senate, after an angry de-

Defendant's Denials.

Asked if she had anything to say regarding the docter's testi- many, defendunt asserted she did not strike the girl's head in administering the chastisement, and suggested that the child must have struck something with her chin head. The wound on the was also caused by a fall on the ground.

Dr. Thomas-I agree. Defendant admitted that she

was registered at the Observatory the Sudan, the administration of 1876) rejected the role of fashion were called to order by the chair for the 24 hours ended at 10.30 a.m. which is to be equally shared by able portrait painter and finally f man, and all the Chinese then left bate, rejected by 41 votes ta, 391 did strike the girl on the lips, and Mr. Wedgewood Denn paid a to-day, tribute to the officers and men The fall was particularly wel (3) Egyptian control of the retired to Barbizon and won im- the hal who were at present engaged in come, inasmuch as yesterday the sources of the White Nile. (4) mortality as an interpreter of the most difficult duties, and conclud- total fell below the average for the The whole question of the owner patios and dignity of labour. whe works were His chief ed with an expression of con- first time this year.

ship of the Sudan to be left to fidence held by the Government

Antelue" "The Sower", some future date.

•

and shared by the House of Com- mons in the Viceroy of India (cheers)-Reuter.

Deaths at Delhi.

Simla, May 7.

An account of yesterday's dis- turbances at Delhi, received from official quarters, indicates that a

MALAYAN MUI-TSAL

NO FEATURES TO WHICH EXCEPTION TAKEN,

Londen, May 7.

The

The Opposition. The opposition was led by Mr. E: A. Brown, who said that be on It is understood that the British Gleaners and "Potatoe Guther-posed the adoption of the report on Foreign Secretary informed Nahasers." "The Angelus" was sold in the ground that the retiring Council Pasha that these suggestions go Paris in 1889 for $22,120.] far beyond the terms of any dia- cussion based on the draft treaty previously initiated with the for mer Egyptian Prime Minister, Mahmoud Pashs.“

In reply to a question in the Hindu and Mohammedan were House of Commons to-day; Or killed. About three hundred people were injured, ten of these danger-Drummond Shields said a report ously. Two have since died in had been received from the High to Mahmoud Pasha in August last hospital. The clty to-day is Commissioner of Malays regarding wrote: quiet-Reuter.

The Extreme Limit. When sending the draft treaty

Mc Arthur Henderson

"The accompanying `proposRİS,

year,

had overstepped the limits of the powers given to it, and had acted unconstitutionally, and in a way his Majesty's Government in the in which it had no power to act. United Kingdom of Great Britain He contended that the Council's and Northern Ireland to go in vote on March 7 this year became their desire to achieve a lasting null and void. The Bishop had and honourable seitlement of out-no mandate from the Council what standing questions between Great ever, however unsatisfactory It was Britain and Egypt":

considered to be at the time and that it was 80 considered proved by the following words in another letter written by the Bishop: "I do not pretend to be

A Late Sitting.

London, May 8.

WAN

the appointment of Judge J.J. again said that the bump at the Parker as Associate Judge of the back of the head was never caused Supreme Court.

by her striking the child on the urged head. The Judge's opponents

Dr. Thomas also agreed with that he was not fit to sit in the highest Court owing to his hostile this, attitude towards organised labour. and Negroes.

'Accused's Version.

This is the first nomination to An Interpreter deposed a state-. the Supreme Court which has ment made by the defendant, when been rejected in nearly forty she was first charged, as follows: years-Reuter's American Service did not strike her on the

MORE PSITTACOSIS.

PARROT IMPORT BANNED BY CANADA.

head. I used only a small, rattan cane to beat her. Every morning she would go into the kitchen and steal water to drink. I then tied her up with a string, but she freed herself and injured her face through her own actions.".

Inspector. John Murphy, attach Bombay, May 7. The report satisfied Lord Pass-together with the explanatory The Anglo-Egyptian negotia- satisfied with the character of the

Ottawa, May red to the Secretariat for Chinese "So long as we don't baffle or field, Dominion Secretary of State, notes to be exchanged on subjects tious adjourned at 8.10 a.m. The meeting. The appointment of The Government has banned the Affairs, stated that at 11 o'clock irritate the Government we are that no feature of this social of detail, which your Excellency Egyptians then drove off to their someone to the vacant chaplaincy entry of parrots owing to an out on Monday morning he went to wasting our lives. We must get custom was permitted in Malaya is about to submit to the Egyptian hotel in good spirits. They will had therefore been made by the break of psittacosis in British Co the premises at Kinsau Lane and freedom this time," declared the to which exception, could be taken. Parliament, represent the extreme re-assemble at the Foreign Office Bishop on his own responsibility lumbia. Reutter & American Ser made a search particularly for

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mui-tsai.

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