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AMAZING SCENES BAD SARDINES

IN COMMONS.

'MEMBER' WALKS OUT

WITH MACE.

GOLD STAFF SEIZED FROM SPEAKER'S TABLE.

TWO SUSPENSIONS.

Sergeant-at-Arms.

MARKET.

ON

OVER 11,000 TINS KNOWN TO BE IN COLONY.

BIG SEIZURE MADE.

A serious discovery has been made by the Sanitary authorities, in the nature of a large quantity of unwholesome tinned food which is believed to be at present on the market, although it is expected that the entire consignment will be seized during the course of the next few days.

FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1930.

日三廿月六

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"THE WORLD ON WHEELS" An interesting Film showing the activities of

FORT DUNLOP

The Stronghold of the British Tyre Industry

Showing at

THE WORLD THEATRE TO-DAY and TO-MORROW

The Star Theatre

BRITAIN REPLIES BURGLAR VISITS A NANKING DEFENCE BRITAIN'S FISCAL

TO FRANCE.

VIEWS ON EUROPEAN}

FEDERATION.

SYMPATHETIC BUT NOT VERY

ENTHUSIASTIC.

DANGER TO LEAGUE.

London, July 17.

on

CLERGYMAN.

INTRUDER CAPTURED BY THE

REV. MACKENZIE.

FRUITLESS ESCAPE.

MEASURES.

BIG CONCENTRATION

OF TROOPS.

THE KUOMINCHUN CLAIM

SUCCESSES.

FOOD SHORTAGE.

POLICY.

GOVERNMENT OPPOSED TO EMPIRE FREE TRADE.

NO FOOD TAXATION.

TO-DAY TO MONDAY,

SHAMROCK'S TRIP TO AMERICA.

LEAVING PORTSMOUTH AT WEEK-END.

EXPECTED AT NEW YORK, ON. AUGUST 20.

CALLING AT AZORES.

An attempted burglary on the

London, July '17. first floor of 13, Peking: Building.

In the House of Lords this the residence of the Rev. A.-J. Mac-

evening, Lord Elibank raised the Kenzie, was frustrated in the ear ly morning of Sunday last when

question of the agenda at the

London; July 17.

forthcoming Imperial Economic the occupant of the house awoke

Conference. He enquired whether and found a man trying to open

Shanghai, July 17. the Government were prepared to There was an amazing inci-

The foodstuff concerned is a large

The text is issued of the reply some drawers in his bedroom. "

This morning, twenty-four agree to a new trade relationship

London, July 17. dent in the House of Commons

After a chase round the house coaches with arms and ammuni- between Britain and the rest of the Portsmouth on Saturday under Shamrock the Fifth will leave to-night when a Labour Mem-quantity of sardines, purported to which the British Government

have been manufactured ber, after being suspended, seiz-makers of the "Sea Brand" in Call-

by the has sent to the French Govern the man was arrested, by an Indian tion, accompanied by an armour-Empire and whether they would her own canvas to cross the At- ed the gold mace lying on the fomia, and it is believed that some

ment's memorandum the Sergeant, when he dropped into the ed car, left on the Shanghal-submit to the Conference for fall lantic to compete for the Ameri Speaker's table, bore it on his 950 cases, each containing a dozen organisation of a system of street below and was this morning Nanking Railway for Nanking. discussion of the policy of Empire ca Cup: Escorted by Sir Thomas shoulder and tried to force his tins, have been put on the market a

brought before Mr. Whyte Smith It is learned that the arms, Free Trade, Including the im- Lipton's steam yacht, Shamrock European Federal Union, way through a crowd of mem-in the Colony.

at the Kowloon Magistracy on a worth over a million dollars, are position of duties bers. The mace was seized by The first intimation of the pre- The reply says the proposals charge of being found on the

on foreign will proceed to New York where an attendant and restored to the fence of the unwholesome food be- are 80 important in pur premises with intent to commit a for the use of the Nationalist foodstuffs.

ing on the market was received pose and scope that they require felony.

She is expected about August: when complaints were made by cer-careful and prolonged considera-

troops fighting between Yen- Lord Arnold, replying for the 20 after calling at the Azores.- The scene arose following a tain residents of Reclamation

The defendant returned an em chow and Tsinanfu. The arms Government, said details of the British Wireless, question on India. Mr.

Fenner Street, Yaumati, who notified the tion and this must be under-phatic denial to the charge. arrived here on the previous day subjects for discussion at the Brockway (Labour, East Leyton) authorities of an obnoxious odour taken in consultation with the Giving evidence, the Rev. Mac-on a foreign steamer.

Conference were under discussion American yachts from which the Shamrock V. and the four insisted on making a speech after emanating from neighbouring pre-other Governments

Kenzie said that at about 4a.m. the Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay mises.

Official Nanking sources state with the Dominion Governments. defender will be selected have on July 13 he was awakened and MacDonald, had replied to a ques- Į A visit was accordingly made to British Commonwealth,

As the French Government re- inga drawer. Witness called out. Chiang Kai-shek to concentrate Prime Minister would make an ed rules which whilst giving de- found a man in his bedroom open that it is the desire of Marshal The final form of the agenda had been bulit to the New York Yacht tion on the India situation. This the premises and over 3,000 Lins.

not yet been settled, but the Club's J. class rating. This impos- an unusually big army in Hauchow pended, and the tumult when the It appears that the sardines had ever, the present Note was sent, the man immediately rushed out. and Yenchow to safeguard Nan end of the session. nounced was such that the figures inflated. Instead of being destroy-gestions must be regarded as pre-chase and followed the man into recalled two Kwangtung Divisions, would permit the consideration of "freak". boat. The limits of an-become unwholesome and the tins although its comments and sug-Springing out of bed witness gave king and in this connexion he has The agenda, 'said Lord Arnold, any one of them producing a

ed it is stated that the tins had

the lobby.

(under Generals Tsoi Ting-kai and It was noticed, however, that been punctured, the air allowed to

Witness intimated that he could Chiang Kwang-nai), a Division forward for the purpose of Im than 65 feet and not more than any proposals which might be put waterline length were not less Fundamental Purpose. during the division all parties exagain. The sardines were in an

the tins escape and

not see the man's features but on from Soochow (under General cept a score of Left Wing Labour-advanced stage of fermentation French memorandum is understood the intruder had climbed out of Chinese

The fundamental purpose of the arriving in the lobby, he found that Chien Ta-chun) and part of the Proving inter-Imperial trade, but 87 feet; and weight had to be ites voted for Mr. Brockway's sus when the smell caused complaints to be to divert the attention

Garrison in

it would be made clear from the proportional to waterline length, of the window on to the ledge. By Shanghai (under General Hsiung outset that the Government were the measure of rating being to be made by the occupants of ad-Europeat people from hostilities stretching out his hand witness Shih-hui) apart from the various opposed to any new or increased primarily the sail area. Varia *"Damned Disgrace.”

joining houses..

and from conflicts of interest some seized the man and called out to Divisioná

taxation of foodstuffs, It is understood that the source.

or to any tions in displacement and other times allowed to exist between his house "boy" who arrived on the Peking-Hankow (Labour, of origin of this consignment has them and to fix their attention up-scene. Dawn was just breaking will come to Nanking via Hankow. to submit to the Conference the each of the five yachts built for Mr.

system of tariffs in Great Britain. particulars were thus possible John Beckett

Railway which The Government would not agree within the rules laid down. And Peckham) and Mr. W. J. Brown been traced and that the seizure of (Labour, West Wolverhampton) the remainder will be effected im- Interests and thereby promote ledge and witness was able to see on the more important, common when the man had gone on to the

the contest differs from the others were the tellers in the division mediately.

closer co-operation among the Eur.bis features. He recognised the and it was noticed that they did

pean nations and Governments defendant as the man,

according as her designer decided not bow to the Chair as is custom-

to use the latitude allowed him. and a strengthening of safeguards Continuing with mentioned arj when

against each other.

"Sy ended in Mr. Brockway being sus of sardines were seized,

result of the division

were inaudible.

pension.

standing table.

was

reporting a division. nonchalantly by the

+

After the result of the Brock- way division, Mr. Beckett exclaim- ed "It's a damned disgrace" and he then seized the great gold mace from the table and proceeded to walk out of the House with it.

of the house, but the mace was

seized by an attendant who restor- ed it to the Sergeant at Arma.

resoldered

CABLE AGREEMENT DISCUSSION.

NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN CHINA AND JAPAN,

Nanking, July 18.

liminary and tentative.

►

in

the

Greater

summoned from the

Kuominchun Claims.

f

policy of Empire Free Trade. British Wireless.

SOLD.

BIG. OIL DEAL IN THE UNITED STATES.

within certain limits prevented

Huge Sail Area.

Shamrock V.'s principal dimen- sion are: Displacement 134 tons, overall length 119 ft. 10 inches," length at waterline 81 feet. -1 inches, greatest beam 19 feet 7, inches, extreme' draught 14 feet 8 inches, height of freeboard & ft. 61⁄2 inches.

"

Tientsin telegrams to hand show that the Kuominchun Commanders that the defendant was taken back on the Peking-Hankow Railway The reply expresses the fullest into the house when he tried to slip claim that their forces have made SINCLAIR INTERESTS sympathy with this purpose and out of his singlet. He was hand- & spectacular march covering the earnest hope that France's ed over to the house "boy" and the many miles, following the evacus- initiative will promote a better two struggled for a short space tion by the Nationalist forces of understanding of the common in after which the defendant seemed the southern sections of the rail- terests of the European peopies, to have bitten the "boy," who re-way on leaving for Nanking. thus leading to

The Kuominchun Commanders greater mutual leased his hold. The defendant confidence and trust among the rushed towards the bathroom in an state that the Nationalist Division

New York, July 17. Bearing it on his shoulder he tried: Mr. C. H. Wang, Director-Governments and to a diminution attempt to escape, but finding there under General Hau Yuan-chuan

The Standard Oil Company of to force his way through a crowd General of Telegraphs and Tele- of the obstacles to international was no outlet he ran along the cor- evacuated Kioshan on the railway Indiana, which already holds half Her sail area is about 7,500 of Members standing at the Bar phones, states that the Nation- trade and economie co-operation rider towards the back porch.

on Monday evening and that the the Sinclair interest in the Sin-square feet, and her mast-a allst Government has officially which now exist.

Witness and the "boy" followed, city is on the verge of falling into clair Pipe Line Company and the hollow one built up in sections of notified the Japanese Government

thinking that, being inside the the hands of the advancing Kuo-Sinclair Crude Oil Purchase Com- silver spruce-is 160 feet high. of its intention to begin negotia- Economic Relations.

house, he could not escape. The minchun forces. tions regarding the outstanding Mr. Beckett's action evoked pro- Sino-Japanese cable questions.

instruder, however slipped over

Kiashan has pany, has agreed to purchase the Her sails are made of Sudan Agreement is expressed with the the balustrade and after hanging by between the Nanking and Shansi Reuter's American Service.

been the scene of many battles other half for G$72,000,000.- cotton, and for the huge size of tests from all parts of the House Five agreements will be dis- view that it is primarily in res- his hards for a time dropped into forces in the war and is about and when his suspension was

cussed,

Fukien-Formosa, pect of economic relations that the street below. The Police had midway between Chenhcow and moved it was carried by the over- Shanghai-Nagasaki, Tsingtao-closer co-operation between Euro-arrived by this time and an Indian whelming majority of 24 votes to Sasebo and Chefoo-Dairen cables pean nations is so strongly to be sergeant seized the, man. four. Most of the Left Wing La- agreements and the Scuth Man- desired and that to this end econo- After evidence by the Indian ser- bourites abstained from voting in churia Railway telegraphs. No mic questions should be consider-geant had been given to the effect difficulty is expected with the ed not one by one, nor in respect that he caught the defendant as Shanghai-Nagasaki and Fukien- of isolated interests, but as a he dropped into the street, Detective Formosa cables, but detailed whole and from the wider view- Sergeant Kellett mentioned that a Mr. John Beckett, the central negotiations between the Chinese point of general interests involved. sharp pocket knife was found on the figure in one of the most astonish- and Japanese Governments will

defendant, suggesting that he was ing Parliamentary incidents of re-be necessary in connexion with the|

Fears for the League, a pick-pocket. The man had been cent years is the Labour member others.-Reuter

in hospital since his arrest suffer- The reply expresses the fear that ing from a cut in his head. It for Peckham. From 1924 until the

new institutions might diminish was not, however, p severe wound. dissolution of Parliament he repre-

the efficiency of the authority of sented Gateshead. Не

His Worship passed sentence of 90 con- tested North Newcastle in 1923.

the League of Nations and create six months' hard labour, tendencies' to inter-Continental He is 36 years of age and after an

rivalries and hostilities. elementary school education be came a shop assistant and then took to writing. He saw war service from 1914 to 1917 when he was disabled.

the Beckett division.--Reuter.

Mr. Beckett's Career.

He has been Honorary Secretary

of the South of England Indepen-

the

KING ALFONSO IN ACCIDENT.

CAR COLLIDES WITH LADY'S TWO-SEATER.

London, July 17.

be

BASEBALL

RESULTS.

The reply expresses the opinion AMERICAN that M. Briand's ideal can effectively secured by adopting the proposals to bring them fully within the framework of the League of Nations and suggests that the memorandum should be placed on the agenda at the next League Assembly.

ST. LOUIS DEFEATED BY NEW YORK.

dent Labour Party and chairman A motor-car in which King of the National Union of Ex-Alfonso of Spain was being driven Servicemen. He is also at or collided to-day in Hyde Park with

New York, July 17. Paganiser of "No More War 2. two-seater driven by a woman.

The reply also states that the Part of the glass in the King's car memorandum requires careful and baseball matches played in

The following are the results of the monstrations. Mr. Beckett is a

the contributor to the Socialist Review, was broken and the small car was prolonged consideration between National and American Leagues to the New Leader and the Daily damaged, but no-one was injured. Herald. He served on the Hackney as to the lady driver's safety, shook of the Dominions.-Reuter and.

King Alfonso alighted, enquired the British and all Governments day: Borough Council for several years. hands with her, and proceeded to British Wireless.

Mr. Brockway's Notoriety." Buckingham Palace, where he lunched with King George prior to Mr. Fenner Brockway is the Lahis return to Spain to-morrow bour Member for Enat Leyton. He British Wireless. was born in Calcutta in 1888 and took up a journalistic career. He was on the staff of the Examiner in 1907, sub-editor of Christian Com- monwealth in 1909 and later be- came editor of the Labour Leader.

In 1917 he was secretary of the No Conscription Fellowship and was charged before police courts or courts martial nine times agitation against the war.

for He

NÓ TRACE OF THE "CHEUNG ON."

ANXIETY FOR HER SAFETY INCREASED.

National

New York Philadelphia. Boston

12 St. Louis

34

ARRESTED. AFTER HIS Brooklyn

HONEYMOON.

AMERICAN IN TROUBLE AT SHANGHAI

Cleveland

9 Cincinnati

2. Pittsburgh

3 Chicago

American

4 Washington

2 Boston

8 Philadelphis

Detroit Chicago St. Loufs

7. New York -Reuter's American. Service.

NEW LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMPION.

HOLDER KNOCKED OUT IN FIRST ROUND,

Hankow,

about seventy miles

from the Hupeh frontier.

The Kuominchun leaders say that Kioshan is denuded of soldiers and they expect the Nationalist Commanders to give up more ground on the southern section of the railway, making Washingkwan Pass the first Nationalist defence line in this sector.

Food Crisis in North.

SHANGHAI ATHLETES

PERTURBED.

HOSPITAL TO BE BUILT ON PIONEER FIELD.

Shanghai, July 18,

them she has quite short booms. The main boom is 62. feet 1 inches long, the spinaker boom and foresail boom. are each 48 feet 6. inches long. Though lightly, Shamrock V. is yet very stoutly built.

The Defenders.

She has a composite hull with counter timbers of teak and steel" frames planked over with maho. The Rockefeller Foundation pro-gany, and her deck is of yellow poses to use the Pioneer Field site pine. Strength and lightness of for a modern hospital. The plan weight were specially studied in is causing much perturbation in selecting her timbers. She is fit- The populace in Chihli Pro-Chinese atheltic circles. Our ted with a centre board that can vince, Including Peking and Own Correspondent, account of the shortage of food- Tientsin, is in a serious plight on:

stuffs. The large number Shansi allles fighting along the railway zone and the great demand for wheat by the Japanese: con- stitute the principal causes of the shortage.

be raised and lowered through one of the two saloons she contains, whilst her hull is painted green

SEVERE TYPHOON IN above the waterline, which is

JAPAN.

SHANGHAI-NAGASAKI CABLE INTERRUPTED.

Shanghai, July 18.

A very severe typhoon is raging

Chinese merchants in Peking and Tientsin contemplate urging the Peking Government to enforce an embargo on the exportation of wheat from North China pending in Japan, telegraphs and tele the conclusion of the war. The phones and also the Nagasaki Shanghai cable being interrupted merchants state that Japanese -Reuter. syndicates have purchased. Yen 10,000,000 worth of wheat from Tientsin.

Kiachsten Looted.

There has been a revival of

Communist disturbances along.

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war there..

IMPROVING LATER.

marked by a broad white band.

Only one of the four American yachts built as defenders is lighter and less on. the waterline, than Shamrock. She is the Enterprise

a foot less at the waterline than Shamrock V. and five tons lighter, but slightly broader in beam. Of the remaining American yachts the Whirlwind is five feet longer on the water Une and 26 tona... heavier than Shamrock, V.; the 'Arabella is two feet longer on the water line and 14.tons heavier; and the Weetamoe is two feet longer at the water line and nine" tons heavler,

Course for Races. The Royal Observatory reports the Tainanfu-Kiaccho Railway that a very severe typhoon is ap

Although the yachts vary in on a Northerly tonnage from 128 12 to 175, and because of the continuance of civil proaching Korea

track. A depression is central to in overall length from 120 to 127 the East of Yunnanfu. The local feet, they are built to the same Tainanfu messages say that Kindhsien was occupied by Com-forecast is:-8.W. winds, fresh; general rating, and this year, for. munist bandits on the 14th instant gederally overcast with rain at the first time, there will be to

|first, Improving later, and many villages in the vicinity

were subjected to much looting

and lawlessness. The villagers Tientsin to-day for service on the are understood to be organising Lunghai front-Router

an army to fight the Communists.

Kuominchun Aeroplanes.

Mukden Not Joining.

time allowances, or handicaps, which always have proven. unsatis factory at best,

Shanghai, July 18. Victor S. Eliott, aged 81, an un- recognised Shanghai-born Ameri- can, was charged before Judge Neither the Harbour Office, nor Hyul at the Special District Court was sentenced to six months' im-the local agents for the e.a. Cheung yesterday with defrauding Mesara. prisonment under D.O.R.A. in On had any information regarding Mustard & Co. of a safe and three August 1917, and to three months the steamer when inquiries were typewriters, valued at $931. The

All previous cup races have been six months and two years' hard made this morning.

sailed In the vicinity of Sandy labour under the Military Service Inceasing daily for the safety of committed in September 1928.

Anxiety is offence was alleged to have been

Hook, in New York harbour, but Act in December, 1917, February, the steamer.

the course this year will be laid off. 1018, and July 1918.

A week's remand was granted in

Newport, between Martha's Vine Every vessel arriving here from order to give the police further In a ifteen round contest for The Hein Chen Poo quotes Chon to deny a Kuomin News Agency des is to be decided by the best four

New York, July 17. ́.

Reuter is authorized emphatically yard and Block Island. The match He was Joint Secretary of the Bangkok reports heavy weather in time for investigation. British Committee of the Indian th vicinity of the Gulf of Tonk was arrested after a honeymoon ship A L Singer knocked out the Kuominchun air force, as ing alleged details of the proposed be fifteen nautical miles to wind- Accused the world's lightweight, champion- Chien-chung, the commander of patch, dated Mukden, July 10, give out of seven races, the first to National Congress and editor of king and a number of junks are trip to Hankow. He was allowed Sammy Mandell, the bolder, in the stating that about twenty fighting participation of the Manchurian ward or looward, and return, the India in 1919. He was Organising known to have been wrecked bail in $4,000,Our Own Corres frst round,Reuter's American aeroplanes have been ordered from army and navy in the civil war second on a triangle with approxi

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during the last fortnight.

pondent.

Service.

Italy, of which ten are arriving at Reuter.

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Peking, July 17.

Mukden, July 17.