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Af 2.15 p.m.

Tmusical plays!

HE best of the season's

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romance.

MAURICE

CHEVALIER The Love Parade

AN ERNST

LUBITSCH

PRODUCTION

JEANETTE MACDONALD LUPINO LANE LILLIAN ROTH

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RECKLESS

Hrat Bational Ficheras

MAJESTIC

from the

Bove!

by

Philip Gibbs.

Meet the Reckless Lady

who bets her way on

cards or lave, play a hand with her, and win or lose,know that you've sounded the depths of drama and hit heights of love,

with

BELLE BEN NETT, LOIS MORAN.

the

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KOWLOON.

FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8. Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FERDREICE PERUT Hagkong.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

CUSTOMS "CRISIS IN TIENTSIN.

MATTER RAISED IN COMMONS.

REBEL'S PLAN TO SEIZE SHANTUNG REVENUES.

NANKING ANXIOUS.

London June 17.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1930.

SHANGHAI SHARE BORDER FIGHTING

ACTION.

IN INDIA.

NO EVIDENCE OF MARKET BEING "RIGGED.”

GOVERNMENT FORCES'

CASUALTIES.

SALE DISPUTE.

Shanghai, June 18:

Judge Sir Peter Grain has found that Mr. E. Solomon has produced no evidence to substantiate his

MANY TRIBESMEN KILLED IN AIR RAID.

charge that brokers had "rigged" BLOOD PROPAGANDA.

the market and has given judgment"

for the plaintiff with costs.

The decision arises out. of the

London, June. 17.

The situation in India is re- In the House of Commons, Sir unconditiona! leave to defend e Dennis Herbert, Conservative claim of Tls. 23,237.48 brought viewed in an appreciation issued M.P. for Watford, drew atten-against-r. Solomon by Mr. J. by the Government of India for tion to the happenings at Tien- Rosenfeld. Leave to defend was the week ending June 14 which the given to Mr. Solomon in April states that the situation in the tsin in connexion with Customs dispute, and to the when Mr. Solomon successfully North West Frontier Province report that Colonel Hayley Bell, appealed against a judgment given has been stabilised. The whole the Commissioner, had taken by Assistant Judge G. W. King tribal trouble was unscrupulons- who decided against him previously refuge in the British Consulate.

on the ground that he had shown ly engineered from Peshawar by emissaries conducting anti- Mr.

Hugh

Under no defence. Dalton, Secretary for Foreign Affairs; said The transaction concerned wo British propaganda by means of full of bloodstained the Press accounts of Mr. Lennox Cotton shares. When the appeal baskets Simpson's appointment had been was allowed Sir Peter Grain said clothing, procured from local officially confirmed, and enquiries "There appears to be two de-butchers. were being made in connexion fences which the appellant desires with the matter.-Reuter,

to suggest. The nrst is that the transactions between himself and the respondent were gambling transactions and the second that Shanghai, June 17.

the respondent had conspired with

There has been a lull in Con- The seizure of the Tientsin

others to "rig" the market-

gress activity and enthusiasm and Chinese Maritime Customs by re-although he uses only the word there are signs in some parts of presentatives of Marshal Yen Hsi- "Corner" and not "rig."

the country of misgivings regard- shan, the Commander-in-Chief of

Assistant Judge King said "ting the aims and methods of Con- the allied troops fighting against

gteas among many who at the Central Government, is the stems to me that the appellant has main topic in Nationalist official raised by his assertion of rigging were inclined to view the

of the market substantial disobedience campaign with tolera circles.

question of fact, or in other tion ir not approval.

a triable issue which words

he active opposition of those who should have been given an oppor- frankly disapprove is steadily in tunity to plead in answer to the

creasing.-Reuter.. claim of the respondent."

Other Seizures.

a

In this connexion, reliable in- formation has been received by the Nationalist Government that simultaneously with the seizure of the Tientsin Customs House, Following this decision Mr. Marshal Yen instructed his sub-Solomon filed his defence ordinates at Changsha and in Shantung to seize control of the two Customs Houses there thus preventing the funds from reach- ing the Nanking Government.

Changsha Retaken.

In view of the Shansi leaders' intention to interfere with the con- trol of the Customs, the National Government instructed the Nation- alist troops fighting in Hunan to recapture Changsha with the sole aim of preventing Custom revenues from, reaching the enemy.

Oilicial circles, in fact. claim the recapture of Changsha by the Nationalist troops under General Ho Chien. The latter, it is stated,

to the

action, but as stated, Sir Peter Grain found that Mr. Solomon had not substantiated his charges. Our Own Correspondent.

UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM.

PREMIER NOT KEEN ON LIBERAL OFFER.

TRIANGULAR PARLEY.

The appreciation also states that when raiding Afridis" were bombed by the Royal Air Force; eighty of their number were killed and over a hundred wounded.

frat zivil

The

Earlier Situation.

London, June 17, The Government of India issues an appreciation of the situation in India for the week ending June, 7. It is stated that the Afridi situa- tion overshadowed everything else during the week and at one time events threatened to assume a A lash- very serious complexion. kar, led by Said Badshah and other prominent Mullahs, was known to have formed some three weeks ago near the western end of Khajuri Plain.

concen- Subsequently, further trations with standards collected in Upper Bara and began to move Peshawar slowly towards the District Border. By June 4 the lashkar had reached a point about reported that the intention was to hold Jirga with the Khalil and Mohmand tribes of the district with a view to combined resi After the Conference, Mr. Ram-stance. to alleged Government

oppression. say MacDonald had conversations with Mr. Stanley. Baldwin, the Conservative leader, and Mr.

London, June 17. On the initiative of the Govern- entered Changsha at six o'clock ment, a conference of representa- 15 miles west of Bara Fort. It is this morning while the defeated tives of municipal authorities was "Ironside" troops were retreating held in London to-day for the towards Liling, which Ja about purpose of considering the un- forty miles to the south-east of employment problem. Changsha.

T. V. Socng's Statement.

in seizing the Tientsin Customs

House.

Incited to Revolt.

4 the In an interview with newspaper Lloyd George, the Liberal leader, On the night of June correspondents in Shanghai, the The conversations were

held lashkar entered the Peshawar Dis- Nationalist Finance Minister Mr. separately, and it is understood trict and numerous gangs, some of T. V. Soong, expressed his anxiety that unemployment was discussed. them numbering several hundreds, over the Shansi Militarists' action In connexion with Mr. Lloyd penetrated Khalil and Mohmand the cantonment George's offer of Liberal support villages up to to the Government in an emer-boundary.

against 17. campaign

Khalils and Mohmands were In- He said such an outrage would gency. render a heavy blow to the employment, it is stated that Mr. cited to revolt and attack the can- prestige of the National Govern- MacDonald, while anxious to get torment but they refused, a large ment in that it would upset all the whatever co-operation is avail-part of the lashkar appears there- estimates of revenues from the able, maintains the attitude that upon to have retired westwards to- Customs, most of which forms the the executive responsibility of the wards the hills,

Government must remain.

Numerous gangs, however, re- rezurities to foreign loans.

There is good reason to believe mained scattered through Khalil that Mr. MacDonald is doubtful and Mohmand country and in the regarding the proposal that the gardens south of Peshawar City. Opposition should have access to Trees were felled and culverts des- the Civil Service and presumably troyed on the Peshawar-Bara Road. official data.-Reuter

Seizure Defended.

The latest news from Tientsin states that Mr. Chu Ao-hsiang, acting Commissioner of Foreign Affairs to the Shansi Government,

has issued a statement emphasis-

confer-

British Casualties.

London, June 17, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, pre-

On the morning of June 5 parties ing the fact that Marshal Yen Hsi-siding at the Guildhall

number of retiring across the Khajuri Plain shan has not the slightest intenence, attended by a

and various were bombed from the air and the Cabinet Ministers tion of destroying the integrity of the Maritime Customs Administra- local authorities, summoned by Royal Air Force are reported to the Prime Minister to discuss

the country between the Bara and

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.She

William Fox present:

SALUTE

loved heroes-two ·

with

„GEORGE O'BRIEN HELEN CHANDLER

WILLIAM JANSTY :STIAIN TETOVE BAVID SUIHK

JOYCE COMPTON

TEXAS ARETEISDA LUPINZANILASE CEIFIOS" DEMPSEY Story by Tristram Tapper. and John Stem

brothers, one of the Army and the other of the Navy... Rivals on the gridi roa -and rivals for her affections.

Directed by

JOHN FORD

It's something to hear and see that will thrill you every moment.

SEE THE ARMY vs. NAVY CLASSIC I

MUSICAL

GUS EDWARD'S SONG REVUE IN NATURAL COLOURS.

FOX NEWSREEL

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THE

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YANKEE CLIPPER

With

WILLIAM BOYD, ELINOR FAIR

AT THE

ENCE

WORLD have inflicted heavy casualties. Simultaneously, a movable column tion. The seizure is purely an action to prevent the money from means of alleviating unemploy marched out of Peshawar to clear ment, said the Government and reaching Nanking.

local authorities must "conspire Tientsin telegrams state that a together to expedite schemes Kohat Road. The drive was en- tirely successful and the troops are deadlock has been reached at the and renew efforts for national

reported to have infleted severe Customs House, where all the development. former officials have left and will "We are not so efficient as we casualties, operating, in every dif-

ficult terrain. probably proceed to Shanghai or might be. I want to enlist the

Details of the losses suffered by Nanking.

active and vigorous social minds With the announcement by Mar- of representative men and women, the Government forces are not yet our available, but a few casualties, as shal Yen Hai-shan of his intention like you, with us to seize control of the Customa energies into a common pool, and was inevitable in operations of this Houses in Shantung it is anti-extract from this schemes not sort,,are-reported to have occurred. cipated that serious warfare will only of benefit to the unemploy- A careful search was conducted break out in the latter province, ed but also to be an added capital when the Nationalist forces will asset of the country's efficiency." launch a final effort to eliminate-Router.

the Shansi rebels in an attempt to save the Custom revenuę,

SUPPORT FOR NAHAS PASHA,

to put

TO TRAIN VARSITY GRADUATES.

ENGINEERING APPRENTICES FOR P.W.D.

With a view to improving the

on June 6, but it failed to discover Afridi stragglers in Britleb ter- ritory and the entire lashker up- pears to have withdrawn from the district.-British Wireless,

THE REPARATIONS LOAN,

opportunities for the practical HOW BRITISH SHARE WILL

BE USED.

•

CHAMBER APPROVES

training of graduates in engineer- CABINET ATITTUDE,

ing, Government has approved a scheme whereby two students from

London, une 17. Cairo, June 17.

the Hongkong University can be In the House of Commons, the The Chamber has unanimously given appointments in the Public Chancellor of the Exchequer stated, passed a resolution supporting the Works Department as Engineering in reply to a question, that the Bri- Nahas Pasha, Cabinet. Renter, Apprentices from 1st July next at, tish, share of the proceeds of the issue of the German Reparations An earlier message reported the a salary of $150 per month each. resignation of the Cabinet because A vote for $1,800 to cover the Loan would be applied to debt re- of the inacceptability of amend-period from July 1st to December, duction. He was not at present ments made by the Palace to a Bill 31st is to come before the Finance able to say definitely the precise for safeguarding the Constitution Committee of the Legislative Coun- form in which it was to be applied. and the trial of Ministers respon-cil to-morrow. Future provision He hoped to announce details in a

will be made in next year's Esti- in a few days. British Wireless. sible for its suspension.

mates.

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FLOVIDOR

Afraid tolove

with CLIVE BROOK JOCELYN LEE

NORMAN

TREVORK

AT

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