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-ĦA AT MONDAY. FRORUARY 23、1931、日七初月正

RUPTURE IN THE MR. J. F. BRENAN IN MRS. AIMEE MCPHERSON'S

RANKS OF

LABOUR PARTY.

COMPLICATIONS' IN POLITICS.

BREAKAWAY OF MOSLEY

GROUP FORESEEN.

A FATEFUL WEEK.

London, Feb. 22. British politics are becoming curiously complicated.

With the Cantery; I'm candi by

"Imperialist" the

Press for la. Bravothank an 1 Rother- mere. illustrated at the Bast Islington by-elsetion, where Brig. Genend Criteh'ay stood as un Empire Grurader candidate and polled more heavily than Miss Cazalet, the official Conservative candidate, and with Mr. Winston Churchill standing aloof, crusMİ- ing on hi

own on th. In linn question. there is no estimating the prospects in the event of a general election."

MOTOR SMASH.

CRACKS ONE OR TWO RIBS & IS BADLY SHAKEN.

SHANGHAI MISHAP.

(Our Own Correspondent.)

Shanghai, Feb. 23,

r. . t Brenat, the British egal-Grammai jf Skamphal, barmerly Consel-Coneral in Can-

w Injured in # motor)

in the wurly hours. of

t

HONGKONG QUEST.

VISITS THE GRAVE OF FORMER HUSBAND AT CEMETERY.

TOUCHING SCENE.

DAUGHTER'S WREATH.

KRAVA

enter ay morning when drivingTWO

.30 from the Washington Ball, wreaths lying

The stem by the Amurient community, ( on

Mfr. Brenan was returning hope theme of the mishap, which zres approximately hoff pust one in Ir InDraing. 1is ear collided envely with at public hire car at intersection of Honan Road Krukiang Road, near the

..

and

Cathedral.'

Happy Valley of Robert James Semple, who died twenty-one years ago at the tragically early age of 29 years, speak poignant-

tish Consen Car way of a touching scene enacte {ant t-hound, wante the hire car at the Cemetery on Saturda

was proceeding towards the Bund, when Mrs. Aimee McPherson The codison was a severe one accompanied by her daughter Miss Roberta Semple, paid a tribute to the memory of her former husband, visiting the grave for the first time since the funeral in 1910.

DUR

And now the Labour Party ap-fand pears to be reatened with a defamages, finite rupture in its own ranks.

and his

Matey Resigning!

swop of the left. will

vencied

were

badly

air. Brenan was badly shaken, fileqital assistance was sent 290 RUAKCarey. i doctors in

ACIJOUR,

GUN-RUNNING IN AFRICA.

Wreath Inscriptions.

It was started

lePherson, salesman. ome time later that she ar crusade for "the world's salva-

“LITTLE MOTHER OF,

MERSEYSIDE."

BEAVAN.

936 PER ANKUM

BAHA

* IP CEN

SIR MALCOLM CAMPRFIL

'establered the world's. record land speed of 240

mi es por hur on-

DUNLOP

TYRES

EUROPEAN “CAR TIDAL WAVE THREE YEARS FOR

MANIAC."

YOUNG LAD WHO TAKES MOTOR VEHICLES,

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A CANING ORDERED.

IN PACIFIC.

VIOLENT * SUBMARINE DISTURBANCE,

"The defendant seems to be a car COOK IS. TERROR,

maniae," remarked Mr. Butters, at the Kowloon Magistrney this morn- ing, when Sub-Inspector Mason charged Eric Fleming. aged 16 years, of No. 2, Wing Lok buildings, with having on February 16. at 1.301 a.m. driven private car No. 7G9, Peter's 1- cence and without the permission of the owner, Dr. J. McElney, along

without e

Granville Road.

No

Wellington, N Z. Feb, 22.

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A graphic necount of trerile submarine disturbance in the Pacific Ocean on January 28 last, a few days before the and, comes to hand to lay in a great earthquake in New Zea

PORTUGUESE.

CHARGE OF ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE.

ATTACK ON A JAPANESE WOMAN.

TELL-TALE PASSPORT.

Three years' hard labour was the sentence imposed by Mr. Justice Cinisell, at the Criminal Portuguess named Anastacio dos Sessions this morning, on h despatch from Ruratonga, Cook | Remedios Marques on a charge 1slands.

of having attacked and robbed a Japanese woman in Kowloon recently.

wo previous information of the

The defendant was also submmon ed for having ridden mator-cycle, 518, on the Lo-hikok Road on February 12, at 10.35 a.m. with- out the permission of the owner upheaval hes reached civilisation. and also without n driver's licence.

The defendant pleaded guilty to all the charges.

appropriate

Sub-Inspector Mason asked that a serious view be taken of the case, as the defendant had been previous

set for « m lar cases.

La ais.urbance threatened to overwhelm everything DR the

beaches in the Cook Islands, taking as it did the form of a series of gigantic tidal waves.

The sea rose suddenly outside the lagoon, though there was no wind and the sky was quite bright and cloudless, and the sea other wise calm.

When the disturbance occurred below, great waves with a thunder- ing noise rushed at terrific speed the harbour at Rarntonga, sub- Omerging the wharves, and swamp

it was disclosert by the Crown that the discovery of a passport on the scene of the lobbery led to the accused's arrest. The theory was advanced that Marques was carrying his passport in order to make a quick get-away, and that he returned to the scene when he discovered its loss.

Accused

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1927 three cars were taken by the Sub-Inspector Nicol said that in

defendant. He had admitted driv

Two Involved. ing the frat two and was arrested

charged with when driving the third. The first

having, on January 6, 1891, with car was a two-seater Oldsmobile

another

person; robbed Seji Nishiosha, a Japanese manicurist, and the second a five-seater. December 9th last year, he tooking shirts and houses with foamliving alone at No. 68, Halphong another car, but the owner did not

and spray.

Rond, Kowlon, second floor, and wish to prosecuta.

The waver rose to a height of stolen a silver watch, a Japanese righty feet, and the phenomenon chop, a key, a silk purse and $119 continued all throngh the night. in money. The other person, ing glimpses through the spray of been apprehended.

The terrified inhabitants, 'entech-stated to be a Japanese, hus not

Mr. Butters-Defendant seems

to be a car maniac

Sub-Inspector Nicol: It looks like it. Defendant was whipped by his father on one occasion for havanserand, ented that it

ing stolen a Studebaker car.

There is, it is stele, a distinct sacar examination sound that pe The noted woman evangelist, posuildlife plot Sie Cowald Marley jog two runs tesa inen cracked, and during her brief stay in the DEATH OF MISS MARGARET

MF, breaan Wan souering Colony, avoided would-be inter- I CONST BRUCH. 118 con-vlowers, and the news of her visit sigion, nowever, is not regarded as to Happy Valley is the first in-,

imation to the majority of residents of her former tragic WOMAN LORD MAYOR. wrynaintance with Hongkong.

Sation, Feb. 22.

Mr. Butters The defendant The death has occurred of Miss to the owners of the cars if he goes must understand that it is not fair "To the beloved father, who Margaret Beavan, the first woman and drives them

face, and Mayer In Britain, holding their permission, and it is also not without getting that of in the City of Liverpool fair on his parents. Twelve strokes

Miss Beavan Hin 1927-28.

on the first count and cautioned on was known as the second. "The Little Mother of Merseyside"

It will be recalled that on Friday owing to her magnificent and careless work on behalf of the it was announced that the defen- mothers and children of Liver-dant has been missing from his pool.

home since the previous day. She founded the Liverpool Child

fare Associatios. the Liver!

Sir Oswald Mosley. resign from the Labour Party in the course of the week.

It is learned that by the middle of the week, the Mosley group wilt be publishing a pamphlet outĺjalur their policy as distinct from the

fficial Labour policy.

EXCITING CHASE ON P.E.A. BORDER,

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never lived to see my trusting that I shall live that shall see his face for ever in glory renzia the inseription One of the wreaths, and with pathos in

On

every line, it tells of a dream of Johannesburg, Feb. 22. hope of one who was deprived the Gun-running and drug-smuglove of him who, was her father. gling from Portuguese East Africa

And across the marble stones into British territory has become is another wreatle a

rampant that Colonel Colliers an ios, but this time there is The Chief of the South Africanate of thankfulness, of appreciate Croninal Investigat.on Depart

, in the inscription which

ne has taken personal charge writen by the hand of Mrs. Ain

of the operations Against the Methra.

| smugglers.

of

I

Sxly armed Union police

To Robert James Semple," i countered on the borders to-day a reads, "who led me to Christ, und band of deug and gun runnera,

to whom I owe all I am that conveying opium valued at thous, sincere and thoughtful. and pounds sterling into Semple McPherson."

Swaziland.

During an exciting chase, the police fired upon Captain Coetsee, The issue of this anti-Govern of the C.I.D., thinking he was one ment pamphlet is apparently pre-of the smugglers. Fortunately

the shots missed him-Router. paratory to the launching of a platform campaign in all the prinį cipal industrial centres,

Lobbyist's Forecast,

CHIANG TO VISIT MANCHURIA.

Husband's Grave.

i Aime:

The grave of this young mis sionary, stands only a short dis tance from the main entrance

the cemetery.

01

Above it is erected

NO FLOWER SHOW.

Owing to the adverse effect of the prevailing bad weather plants and vegetables, the Pre- hege and Commit.ce of the Hongkong Horticultural So- ciety have been reluctantly compelled to cancel the annual show of flowers and vegetables. which was to have been held at the City Hall on Thursday,

Open

CICILY STRUCK

CYCLONE.

was perfectly calm,→Reutor,

THE PIRACY TRIAL CONTINUES.

Lam

DEFENCE OPENED AT

Accused denied the charge, and Mr. Whyte Smith prosecuted for the Crown.

Story of Affair.

In outlining the case for the Crown, Mr. Whyte Smith said that at 9.30 p.m. on the night in question, complainant was alone in THE SESSIONS.

the house, when she heard a knock at the door. After a little hesita- Evidence was concluded this tion she opened the door and saw morning at the Criminal Sessions accused outside. She had seen before Mr. Justice Wood, in the him twice previously, once when ease in which 12 Hoklos and Hak-he had called and asked her kas are charged with piracy on f any Portuguese were living BY January 4.

there. and again when he had Mau-po. Seaman, gave asked if she could provide him similar evidence to that of the with board and lodging. reminder of the crew of the On the night in question, she pursued junk, and Lance Sergeant told him that he was not to come ALMOST ISOLATED FROM

Jessup, recalled. kave certain

inside but he forced his way in,' measurements of the captured being followed by a Japanese, ITALY.

junks. Mr. Somerset Fitzroy then who had also been to the houso close the Crown case. Palermo, Feb. 22,

previously. They both seized her Sicily has been almost isolated defence, said that he would not money. They also tried to force a Mr. Hin-Shing Lo for the by the throat and demanded her from Iinly for the past two days as the result of one of the most vio-call any evidence, but submitted potato into her mouth, so much that there was no case to answer lent cyclones ever experienced.

80 that one of her teeth was as there was no evidence of as-loosened, and it afterwards camo Torrential rains and strong gales ault, no evidence of the posses-out of her mouth. have devastated fields and orchards,sion of arms, and that it was ways and telegraph services being had been completed." trees being uprooted and the rail-essential to prove that a robbery interrupted.

His

Honour

disagreed, and

Hid Under Bed.

Air Hospital for

Mr. Whyte Smith continued that Children at Leasowe, the Royal place haa suffered most, are using evidence on the first two points tually complainant told the men The people of Palermo, which considered that there was enough there was a struggle, and even- llen Gonner Convalescent Home the rivers in the Catania Plain hav-reserved his ruling on the third it, together with the other articles iverpool Babies Hospital, the boats, owing to the flooding of all for the cnue to go to the jury. He where her money was. They took

Hoylake and the Tired Mothers' ing burst their banks.

mentioned in the charge. Com

dignified white marble stone, and a marble border urrounds it, par which in born the inscription bool "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday to-day, and or ever.--Hebs: 13:3

Below Inscribed: "In loving memory of Robert James Semp Missionary, and beloved husband of Aimee Sample McPherson. }} Led me to Christ."

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been

point.

The Prean Association's Lobbyist foresees the likelihood that the

PLAN TO DISPEL CURRENT official Labour leaders will inter-

lest Home. RUMOURS. prut iis development as a challenge which will involve the question of

Until the time of her death, Miss people have been killed, and numer-t

Many houses have collapsed, four Mr. Fitzroy addressed the jury,plainant took refuge under a bed Nanking, Feb. 22.

Teavan was President of the Party discipline, and that therefore,

Me Lo and not completed and stayed there until the man At the bottom of the monument

Vorth-Western Considered likely to have far-

ous livestock has Federation Sir Oswald Mosley and his hunch.

of Router.

Inathis defence before the timin nd-ad left.

journment.

Afterwards, accompanied by a then may anticipate official action reaching effects on China's rela-are the words "Fell asleep in Jem Maternity, and Child Welfare, by resigning from the party.

tion with foreign countries, parti Then follows the

--August 19th, 1910, age 20.Vice-President of the Nations

friend, she went to the Water The point of interest at the no-cularly Russia, is the contemplat. Scriptural injunction: "Go ye into Vational Council of Women

well know Association, and a member of the

Police Station where she reported how many members of ed visit to Manchurin of President all the world, and preach the Gosp

Trent Britain. Parliament would follow Sir Oswald Chiang Kai-shek, head of the Nan to every creature." "Lo, I am with She contested the Everton Divi- Mosley in the event of these pro-king Government.

| you n[way."

on of Liverpool in the Conserva phecies proving sound.

The Manchurian tour is being

ive interest, opposing Mr. Der- organised with a view to dispell-

ent Hall Caine, the son of Sir ing reports of ill-feelhur between

was defeated by only 1,567, Hall Caine, the novelist, in. 1929,

otas,-Reuter.

ment.

TLP. Feeling.

His manifesto of December last was signed by only seventeen mem

wow he at a to-day centre

On Way to Manila. the Manchurian and Nanking in from a severe nervous brenk Mrs. Mcl'heron., who is suffer Governments. The Manchuria; down, accompanied her daughter te authorities believe that the visit the cemetery on Saturday after of the Southern Counties Division the relations between the Central, on, but efforts to find them weit may result in further cementing of the IP. a fortnight ago, speci and Provincial Governments and fically called for the purpose of considering the qucation of disntfio have an effect on the Confer- have departed on board the

It was learned to-day that, they lation from

President Wilaon for Mania.

Mrs. McPherson, who complains

the official Labour

ence with Russin.

The President will leave Nan-

ansuccessful.

R.H

of

JAPANESE GENERAL.

ACQUITTED.

SOVIET'S POLITICAL PROBLEMS.

SOCIAL DEMOCRATS TO RE TRIED FOR TREASON.

A

Moscow, Feb. 22. counter-revolutionary or. Kanisation in Russia has been vealed by a preliminary inquiry into, the activities of certain members of the Social Democrat Party, who will shortly be tried

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SINO-SOVIET PARLEY. the occurrence. At that time she,

was bleeding a little at the mouth, her hair was dishevelled, and she showed signs of having been engag NANKING VOTES SUM_OF

ed in some sort of struggle. She $600,000.

also produced the loosened tooth. Nanking, Feb. 22.

When the police examined the premises. they found the potato The Nanking Government has and niso

accused's decided that a sum of $800.000 be They set a watch on No. 28, Hal

passport. act rule for the purpose of de phong Road, which was the house reo Russin of the Chinese mission lived, and at about 7.a.m. on the fravine expenses envering the visit where the Japanese accomplice tonillug the Sino-Soviet Con- following day accused walked: ference.

along the road and entered that A sum of $180,000 has been a house. He was taken to the signed to General Moh Teh-hal Police Station, and the constable who will be leaving some time this would say that on the way accused week for Harbin, Ho wil visit

told him that he had been with the Mukden, to confer with General Chang Hauch-long before return Japanese at the house and that ing to Moscow, where the discus. there had been a fight. rious will be continued.

Under Influence of Drink, It is the intention of the Nan- king Contrat Palltfeni Gounell that: When charged at the Police General Moh Teh-hui should Station, accused said I did not negotiate with the Russian de rob anything," and before the Magi legates simultaneously on the re- 'strate he anid, "I know nothing. I sumption of political relations and, was under the Influence of drink." Bombay, Feb. 22,

the settlement of the Chinone Dealing with the discovery of The police to-day arrested fourantern Railway dispute.

accused's passport, Mr. Whyte Congress Volunteers, It is bellaved that resumption of templating robbery, would also pro. Smith auggested that a man, con-

Party, rejected Sir Dawald Mosleyke about the middle of March for of harsh treatment at the hands of NOT GUILTY OF KOREA RICE by the Supreme Court.-Reuter.

proposals as a party programme by Peking, whence he will be accom-newspaper representativos, is now an overwhelming vote.

Whether Sir Oswald and the Led by General Chang Isuch-taking every precaution to prevent P. have come to a closer anderang to Manchuria.

standing since it is impossible, of course, to say. Estimates of the strength of the Mosley Group In the House vary considerably.

Router.

DRIZZLE-AND-MIST.

BIG SHANGHAI RACE DIVIDEND.

TOMMY ATKINS WINS AT ODDS OF OVER 260-1.

Shanghai, Feb. 23.

In

SCANDALS.

them from seeing, or interviewing

Tokyo, Feb. 23. her. Her whereabouts

General

former Yamanashi, during th alions sojourn in Hongkong, wer Governor-General of Koron, whom therefore, nbsolutely

the Procurators on November 21at unknow fast recommended for a sentence She and her daughter did not re of 18 months' hard labour in con- turn to the boat until lato on) Saturday night, and every effort nexion with his alleged participa-

tion in the Fusan Rice Excha scandal, has been acquitted,

to trace them failed.

Married at Seventeen.

Exchange

`BOMBAY CONGRESS

ARRESTS.

FOUR HUNDRED TAKEN INTO CUSTODY.

hliving bean found ""Not Guilty by the Tokyo District Court. Mrs. McPherson, was married to It will be recalled that General Robert Semple, a Canadian boller Yamanashi's indictment followed hundred anker, when she was seventeen the exposure of a series of scan who formed up in the Maidan, in commerce between the two years of age. Mr. Semple turned dala in high places during the the centre of the city, to anlute tries will follow close on the re-bably contemplate leaving the Co- missionary and came to China, pax-Tanaka Administration,

those the "National flag."

coun-

The Royal Observatory reporta At the Klangwan Race Courao that the anticyclone is contral over yesterday, the victory of an out N. E. China. Frosh monsoon stander, Tommy Atkins, with Y along the B.E. coast of China and Wong riding, rosulted over the North China Sea. Local remarkable dividend of $1,820 for ang away three years after their being revealed shortly after the Those arrested Include forecast:-N.E.. winds, froah; the win, odds of over 260 to 1-

marriage, in Hongkong.

formation of the present Hame-members of, the so-called Bombay Government is desirous of revising" }); (Continued on Page R) overcast, drissle and mist. Our Own Correspondent.

On her return to America, the guchi Cabinet in July, 1929. War Council-Reuter.

· noted” evangellat - married Harold Reuter

sumption of political relations, antony immediately afterwards, in the in this connexion the Nanking which case he would regnirs, his

passport. If, during, the robbery the existing commercial treaty.