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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1930.

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DISCREET POLICY.

Mr. Wood said he had not yet received the figuers from Taipo but he confidently anticipates that the number will be sufficient to bring the grand total up to and perhaps over the 4,000 mark.

DUKE OF CONNAUGHT.

COLONEL-IN-CHIEF.

A special jubilee parade of the regiment, with its attached terri- torial battalions, was inspected in Hyde Park by the Duke. Fourteen hundred ex-Servicemen of all ranks, drawn by an invitation broadcast" last week, assembled and marched past their

old Commander. British Wireless..

The period of six months allowed

London, June. 1. by the Ordinanca for the registra- The Duke of Connaught, who tion of mui-tani expired on Satur- passed his eightieth birthday a day evening and the number month ago, celebrated yesterday registered. nccording to figures afternoon his fiftieth, year" as The combined circulation of the supplied by the courtesy of Mr. Colonelsin-Chief of the Rifle two papers is 1,600,000 daily and | A. E. Wood, of the S.C.A., is 3,899. | Brigade. the fusion will create a great | Mr. Wood explained to a Telegraph Liberal newspaper.-Reuter. representative that this total in- The new journal will really re- cluded all registrations at Pollee present the fusion of four news Stations, the Tung Wah and papers. Several years ago the Kwong Wah Hospitals, but did not Daily News amalgamated with the include the registrations effected Morning Leader, the paper thence at the District Office, Taipo. forth being known as the Daily News and Leader. On February 1, 1928, the Daily News amalgam- ated with the Westminster Gazette

was born at Buckingham Palace H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught and from that time the paper has

on May 1, 1850. He is the only been known as the Daily News and

surviving son of Queen Victoria. Westminster Gazette. Just as the Our informant stated he con Trained at the Royal Military old Leader vanished from the title, sidered the response to be a good Academy, the Duke joined the the

of the Westminster one and he had reason to think Royal Engineers as Lieutenant in Gazette is now to vanish.

that there were now any un 1868 and then after a short period The latter was formerly an registered mui-tsai in the Colony. in the Royal Artillery passed to evening paper published in London The Government fully intended to the Rifle Brigade. During his and distinguished from its con-enforce the Ordinance, but for a long service he took part in the temporaries by its green paper. brief period during the beginning suppression of the Penian rising It changed hands some years ago of the present month discretion as in Canada and the war in Egypt and became a morning paper, to prosecutions would be used in when he participated in the de- atill retaining its Liberal attitude. the event of the late registrations, cisive battle of Tel-el-Kebir ast The announcement in 1928 that after enquiry into the circum-commander of the Brigade of the Westminster Gazette would stances of any particular case. Guards. cease to exist as a separate news- According to the census of 1921, paper, becoming absorbed into the there were then 8,653 mai-tsat in India and in 1899 renounced his He later spent several years in Daily News, fell with the effect of a bomshell in Fleet, Street, the under 14 years of age. The anti-succession to the German Duchy staff hearing of the change only a cipated total number of registra-than sever his connexion with the of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha rather few hours before it took place. tions, 4,000, is a considerable drop Army. He was promoted Field The unexpected disappearance of on the figures of nine years ago, Marshal in 1902 and in 1911 went the Westminster Gazette made a but it seems likely that when the to Canada profound impression, but those re- 1921 census was taken the status

28 Viceroy and Governor-General, He eponsible for the

allowed amalgamation of mui-tsai was not strictly considered that the position of separated from the status of other himself to be prevailed on to re- Liberalism. would be strengthened girls very similar to mui-tsai-term, leaving the Dominion in main in Canada for a second considerably by the amalgamation Another reason which might of two Liberal newspapers,

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TRIBUTE AT TOMB OF

LIVINGSTONE.

MOVING SCENES.

"Don't be weary, traveller, come along home to Jesus!"

Tears came to the eyes of some

NANKING SUFFERS

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(Continued from Pugé 1.)

ty in the event of a Shansi attack against Tsinantu, which seems to be most probable.

The meeting decided to approach the foreign Governments asking for more troops at Tsinanfu and also decided to store large con-

in the great congregation at West-signments of foodstuffs as a pre- minister Abbey, as they listened caution against a seige by the to the impassioned singing of Shansi invaders. negro men and women in this moving anthem of their race.

Here, in the heart of England's spiritual life, in the holiest shrine of her history, the 27 women and 25 men of the Hampton Choir, Virginia, were honoured guests.

Before their own little service began, they sat in the choir of the Abbey and listened with a tense expression to every word, and to every note of music in the after-

noon services.

Hampton Institute was founded in 1860 to educate newly freed slaves, and these young men and women, who have been studying various trades, different. branches of business, and agriculture are now beginning a European tour.

Their singing is famous in America, but no engagement on their long tour will give them greater happiness or pride than the invitation of the Dean of West- minster, Dr. Forley Norris, which made it possible for them to sing in Westminster Abbey.

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At Livingstone's Tomb. After the service, the singers were grouped round the tomb of David Livingstone.

Rebels in Changsha.

Hankow, May 31.

It is reported that the Kwangsi troops under Li Chung-yan, after a spectacular advance, reached Changsha yesterday, the Nation- alist troops retiring without re- sistance..

The Wu-Han authorities are ticularly south of Wuchang and expediting defensive works par-

recalling all available troops.

are

Numerous bandit armies .com- plicate the situation. It is be- lieved that these armies organised by the same Soviet agents who were present in 1927. Some have been recognised in the district.

Martial law has been declared in Hankow. Reuter,

WATER LEVELS.

ON WEST, NORTH AND EAST RIVERS.

1916.

As Field Marshal, the Duke re- mained on the active list and in June 1928 the Army Council con- gratulated him on having com- pleted sixty years' military scr- vice,

HUNT FOR £6,000 THIEVES.

CLERK UNCONSCIOUS IN A CARRIAGE.

BATTERED HAT,

The mystery of an unconscious train sad the disappearance of railway clerk found in. a Southend 40,000 in his charge was the sub- ject of investigation by Superinten dent Brown, of Scotland Yard. and Detective-Inspector Lawrence. of Limehouse.

Arthur Dennis, aged 34, employed by the L.N.E.R., was found..no- conscious in a first-class cohipart- ment of a train when it reached Maryland Point,

He had started from Liverpool- street with £6,000, made up in be paid to station staffs. wages packets. The money was to

When the train pulled up at Mary land Point, the stationmaster and a clerk made a search through the firstclass compartments and found Mr. Dennis unconscious, with the cash boxes empty, save for about £10 in copper.

One of the station staff said that Mr. Dennis always took that train on Thurday morning.

"When they looked for him," he said. "they pulled open the door of a carriage and he was lying huddled up in one corner. The cash boxes, made of heavy-wood and bound with iron, were empty. The keys were still in the locks:

"Mr. Dennis's hat, which lay ou the sent, had been battered about A piece of lead piping was found under the seat."

The following table, issued by They were followed by a mul- the Kwangtung River Conservancy titude of people, among whom Commission, shows in English feet

The unconscious man was taken were many members of the colour- the water levels on

the West

to Queen Mary's Hospital, Strat- ed races in London, who looked River, North River and Eastford, where he remained in a stato on that day as a day to make River, on the dates named:

of coms for several hours. history.

May 31 June 1.

Detectives waited at the hospital Shiuhing!: 16.3

for Mr Dennis to regain conscious- Tsingyuen

no8s. Samshui Sheklung

The singers were welcomed by the Dean, who then invited two of the choir to place wreaths on the tomb of the man who so long ago fought for the rights of slaves in Africa.

The Great Appeal. Then came some of the sweetest and most passionate singing the Abbey has known.

Not one in the crowd round

8.5

.9.1

3.4 On May 30th, the level at Sam- shui was 14:1.

The highest levels on record are: Shiuhing, 41 feet; Tsingyuen, 29.2 feet; Samshui, 27.3 feet; Shek- Jung, 15.5 feet.

The lowest level on record at Samshui is-5 feet and at Shek lung-2.7 feet,

these coloured singers is likely to forget their changing moods, the rise from a note as soft and gentle as a whispered prayer to the great burst of triumphant musie as the One of the Broadmoor Criminal voices cried again and again, Lunatic Asylum's oldest. inmates, "Come along home to Jesus!" Peter Murphy, has died therc, aged At the close of the anthem the 90. He was convicted at the Old négroes listened with bowed heads Bailey in 1875 for malicious us the Dean said a prayer of com. wounding, and sentenced to de- memoration of the life and work tention during her Majesty's plea- of Livingstone.

sure. Murphy, who played the Then, with the Benediction, the big drum in the asylum band for service ended, and the negro 30 years, was an expert cutter, singers went out in the radiant and worked in the tailor's shop sunshine, and with sunshine in He lived in the same block as their hearts,

Ronald True.

When he had recovered lie made a statement to Detective-Inspector Lawrence and Superintendent Cor- nish.

In this Mr. Dennis referred to amattack made on him by two mon The railway police followed shus concerning two men who were seon boarding the train at Liver- pool-street. Station while it was on

the move.

It appears they attacked Mr. Demis between Liverpool-street | and Stratford, took his key, and escaped with the money before the. train reached Maryland Point." companied by a policeman when

Formerly the pay clerk was ac. | taking money on railway journeys, but this practice had been discon- tinued.

...

Porters gave the police & descrip tion of the two men,

Mr. Dennis, who lives with his wife and mother-in-law at Brighton, “as, been in the employ of the" L.N.E.B. since he was a boy,'

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