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dustrial School on Sunday afternoon has been reported to the Police by Mr. McKenna,

The boys are Lee Kun-cileung, 15, Chow Sun, 14, and Yung Tak-ming, 14. These boys have no fixed abode in Hongkong

While walking near, the Chinese Permanent Cemetery in company

of threat, "juvenile) with other boys at 6 pm. yesterday,

Aberdeen. In the three boys suddenly absconded:

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1938.

Letters Of Goodwill To ALHAMBRA

Home Officials

“ALL-UP” MAIL INAUGURATION

A special blue satin air mail bag will be desbatched

VISITOR'S

from Hongkong to-night, containing letters from LOSS AT

His Excellency the Governor, Sir Geoffry Northcote,

to Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, Secretary of State for PICNIC Foreign Affairs, Sir John C. W. Reith, Managing Director

$8,000 STOLEN

of Imperial Airways, Major the Right Honourable G. C. HIFU, JULIET Tryon, Post Master General, London, and Sir Kingsley JEWELLERY WORTH Wood, head of the Air Ministry, in reply to congratulatory letters which arrived here earlier this week on the plane. which brought the first "all up" mail from England to Hongkong.

CHINA DEMANDS SANCTIONS

Geneva, Sept. 11. Dr. Wellington Koo, Chinese! Delegate to the League of Nations, has sent to the Secre tary General of the Leaguo a communication requesting on be- half of the Chinese Government | that the Council give immediatel offeet to Article 17 of the League: Covenant.-Reuter.

Artice 17 of the League Covenant provides that, in the event of a dis- pute between a Member State of the League and a non-Member State Japan resigned two years ago the provisions of Articles 12 to 16, which in effect are Sanellons against aggressor, may be invoked.

Japan's Ruthlessness

Geneva, Sept. 11.

thei

Dr. Koo recalled that, precisely a year ago, the Chinese Government had appealed to the Council to take effective action to deal with the gravel situation created by Japanese aggres- sion, and the League had since adopted number of resolutions,

All of them, in their principal pro- visions, have remalned unexecuted or ineffective,

Ilustiilties which Jupan started against China fourteen month ago) have not abated but, on the contrary,| Japan is pursuing them on an ever extending seole and with increased intensity and ruthlessness.

"It is the firm conviction of the Chinese Government that in the in-1 terests of the League of Nations It-

peace,

Mr. Malcolm MacDonald in his letter to Sir Geoffry stated:

FROM MATSHED

About $8,000 worth of jewellry was stolen from u malahed it -South Bench yesterday. It was not insured. The victim of the theft was Mrs. G. E. Baxter, a Shanghai resident Sir,-On the occasion of the ex-who is visiting Hongkong for a week tension to Hongkong at the Empire and who only arrived in the Colony als mali scheme under which all on Friday on the Empress of Japan.

Leaving her valuables in an over- first class mail exchanged between nigist travelling bog. Mrs. Baxter participating countries will be car-went for a swim about 4.30 p.m. and rled by air without surcharge on

Half

the routes on which air services was away for little more than are operated under the scheme, an hour, but while the party was

away

from the shed someone quietly have the honour to convey to you took the bag and its contents and this message of greeting and good wisites to the Government

and Ruse belonging to Miss Doris another member of the party people of the Colony, It is my who has not long been a resident of earnest hope that the improvement the Colony.

in communications which will re- The stolen articles Included a soli- sult from the inauguration of this

taire diamond ring valued at $0,000, scheme will be of real advantage

and ring of emeralds a guard to the Governments and peoples diamonds valued at $100, a wedding of the territories served by it, and ring valued at $150, a platinum wrist will help to Unk them still more watch valued at $1.200, a silver cam- closely with this country and with pact worth $100, and various other other parts of the Empire.

smaller articles.

GOVERNOR'S REPLY

Hongkong's Governor in his reply YOUNG CHINESE

to Sir Malcolm, which will arrive in London next Friday, states:

message

were

DROWNED

Sir, I have the honour to ex- press my high appreciation of the A bathing fatality occurred in the

of greeting and good Tsun Wen district yesterday when wishes which Ylk

good young Chinese lost his life. enough to send to the Government According to a police report Chan on the Sik, 24. student of No. 10 Essex people of Hongkong ccasion of the Empire alr

mail Cresent, Kowloon Tong, stated that scheme for first class mail bring his brother, Chan Hing, 20, employed in Hongkong

within its ambit.

China, Hong- ing

within its

by the Central Trust, It is beyond question that this kong Bank Building, was drowned Imperial service will be of Im-while bathing at 13-mile beach. mense benefit to distant colonies) Chan Hing was wearing, a pair of such as this, and on behalf of all blue bathing trunks. The body hus communities resident here, I ten-not been recovered.

der an expression of gratitude to you and your predecessors for having laboured successfully to put it within their reach.

SIR KINGSLEY WOOD

Sir Kingsley Wood's letter to Sir Geoffry stated:

Fireman Wins. "Sit- Down'

Akron, O. City Areman John Kunze caught a

with 13 Dear Sir,-On the occasion of "firebug"

flying tackle. this first Empire air mail service Kunze then used a half-Nelson, from the United Kingdom to Hong-which brought the man back to the kong, I am taking the opportunity | firebox where he had just turned in Areman then to send you my best wishes and to a false alarm. The enuse ut

his victim until the thank you for the help you have calmly wat on given in bringing our plans to frui- engines arrived. tion.

self, and in the genera to China,

as well as in the provisions of Article 17 should be applied," Dr. Koo said,

"China, therefore, has requested the Council to give immediate effect to Article 17 which, in the opinion of the Chinese Government, provides | the most relevant procedure for effective action by the League.- Reuter.

I have no doubt that this cheap and speedy mail service will bring benefits of Insting Importance by joining the people of the Colony in loser contact with those of Great Britain and the rest of the Empire.

MATERIAL BENEFITS

In his reply to Sir Kingsley His Excellency says:

Dear Sir, 1 om highly apprecin- tive of your kind letter of good wishes

STOP PRESS

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SOVIET-RUMANIA PACT RUMOUR

Geneva, Sept. 12,

It is still claimed that there is an agreement between Rumania and the Soviet whereby Soviet troops will be permitted to pass through Rumanin

Comnan As President

Geneva, Sept. 12. The French Foreign Minister, M. Georges Bonnet, has agreed to the proposal that the Rumanian Foreign dated August 31. Minister, M

be Connan, should The extension of the Empire vir elected to the Presidency of the mail service to Hongkong is most Plenary Session of the League

of welcome: it will indubitably bring in the event of war in Central Europe. Nations.

many material benefits in its train: The proposal was made by the but, apart from that, it also gives us Soviet delegate.-Trans-Ocean.

sense of being yet closer to the mother-country of our Empire.

Privy Seal For Geneva

London, Sept. 12. The Lord Privy Seal, the Earl de in Ware, will go to Geneva by air on Monday to represent the Foreign Minister, Lord Halifax, at the League Session.

The Spanish Republican delegate to the League, M. Del Vayo, has in- formed M. Bonnet-that he will sup- port the Soviet attitude towards the Sudeten question.-Trans-Ocean,

PRINCE ARTHUR'S THREE NEW CASES

CONDITION

London, Sept. 11.

OF CHOLERA

Three new cases of cholera were reported during the past 40 hours,

The Earl de in Warr will discuss Prince Arthur of Connaught has making the year's total 412. There the developments of the Czech pro- suffered a further loss of strength were also five new notifications of blem with Dominion representatives. during the past 24 hours, according dysentery, making the aggregate 008,

Should Lord Halifax go to Geneva to an official bulletin issued here.

at all it will not be before the mid- Throughout the week the Prince's two cases of enteric fever, and one

dle of the week.-Trans-Ocean.

condition hins been critical-Reuter.

each of measles and meningitis.

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