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SOVIET & BRITAIN'S BURGLARY SEQUEL HIS MAJESTY & THE
SOCIALISTS
PRESS COMMENT
MACDONALD'S POLICY "ALL SAME" BALDWIN'S
"A
"REDS" DISAPPOINTED
Moscow, Yesterday.
what repetition of
Sir Austen Chamberlain (former Secretary for Foreign Affairs) maintained for two years" sum- marises the Soviet Press comment on the rupture in the London negotiations.
The "Isvestia" says that Mr. Henderson (Secretary for For eign Affairs) has made more de- termined demands than those ne-
companying the recognition of the
Soviet in 1924.
The "Pravda" expresses the opinion that Mr. MacDonald's and, Mr. Baldwin's policies are iden- tical. Reuter.
CANTON ITEMS
ANXIETY ABOUT TROUBLE PASSING
MILITARY & POLICE WATCH
Canton, Yesterday,
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Only minor incidents occurred Aug. in Canton, notwithstanding the threat of the extremist agents to
make trouble for the present Cantón administration.
The military and the police have
been watching the movements of the | known leaders of the extremists.
Anxiety on account of possible tron- ble from Communists is passing.-Nan Chung Kuo News Service.
10 MILLION MARK
SURPLUS REVENUE. IN HAND IN HONG KONG
་
- COMPARATIVE STATISTICS
On March 31, 1929, the Colony's balances stood at just over the tem million.mark.
The Treasury's income in that month. Was $2,057,806.18. Expenditure amounted to $1,610,767.36, leaving a surplus (with balance carried for- ward) of $10,308,441.24.
The total revenue for the first three months of this year is $6,006,858.45, which fe higher than the $5,790,255.09 for the same period in 1928. Land
FOUR PERSONS AGAIN BEFORE MAGISTRATE
THE QUESTION OF BAIL
The Sincere burglary case was again mentioned before Mr. E. W. Hamilton,' this morning, by. Mr. J. M. Hall who applied for bail for the third of the four accused, a woman named Tong Kam, described as an amah, who is charged with receiving stolen property, namely, three jade pendants and three jade stones from a male accused named Yeung Ping-cheung.
Detective Sergeant Flattery said that the Police had no objection to bail now, and explained that Tong Kam was amah to the fourth accused.
JAMBOREE
SENDS MESSAGE.
"PEACE OF WORLD DEPENDS UPON COMING GENERATION”""
UNIQUE ASSEMBLY
London, Yesterday. The Prince of Wales read, at the Jamboree, the following message from His Majesty the King:-
"This is a unique assembly, re- presentative of the youth of all the great nations of the world. I ask them to remember It chiefly that Fourth accused is the young woman, future peace of the world depends." upon the coming generation the Tam Kau-mai (23), who is now known in the case as the "Charming Lady" workers of the Jamboree, and add- His Majesty congratulated all the She is charged with receiving three jade stones from the other male ac ed that it had given him great plea- cused, Tang Yee-hing, the man who is sure to mark this signal event in charged with having been concerned history by conferring a peerage accused appeared in Court as receivera. in the burglary. All the other three upon their Chief Scout.
Another Generous Gift
Replying to the Magistrate, Ser- Mr. T. Whitehead, of Perthshire, geant Flattery said that Tong Kam has handed Lord Baden-Powell was in practically the same position as £5,000 for the Boy Scouts' Associa- her mistress, Tam Kau-mui..
tion of Great Britain.-Reuter.
His Worship suggested that in that
[To-day It was announced that case he would give the same bail as Mr. Mortimer L. Schiff, of Messra, that given to the other woman-$500. Kuhn, Loeb & Co., the famous New Mr. Hall said that he understood York bankers, had given the Prince that the Police had no objection to of Wales £10,000 to establishi bail of $800 in this instance, as the fund for the promotion of interna. accused was "only an amah."
tional friendship among boys.]
His Worship remarked on the fact that accused was not present in Court.! Mr. Hall: I am representing her.
dered if it was the right procedure to Mr. Hamilton replied that he won- grant bail in the absence of an accused.
Mr. Hall: I think so. I have bailed a good many persons out before.
Magistrate: The Police have no ob jection to $300 ball, you say?
Sergeant Flattery: I think $800, your Worship.
Bail was given in that aim. His Worship then inquired from
"GRAF ZEPPELIN ”
WIRELESS MESSAGE STATES "ALL WELL".
FLYING THE ATLANTIC
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Casablanca, Yesterday." At 12.30 this afternoon a wire less message from the "Graf
Sergeant Flattery if any of the stolen Zeppelin was picked up, stating property had been recovered,"
Sergeant Flattery: Yes, everything is recovered, your Worship.
The Magistrate was curious to know, in that case, where the money came from for bail. He had thought that it was part of the proceeds..
CONSTABLE'S FATE
COMMITS SUICIDE WITH A REVOLVER
THREE YEARS IN FORCE
Indian Constable Sher Mohamed, B532, stationed at Pokfulam, com- mitted suicide yesterday afternoon
eales have gone up, and there are gen eral. increases under other heads, but miscellaneous receipts bave gone down.
The total expenditure, on the other by shooting himself in the head!
In the first quarter with a service revolver in the ata- last year it was $4,323,849.00. This tion's storeroom
hand, is lower.
year it is $3,795,051.08. The Police A loud report coming from Force is the biggest item in the 1929 the storeroom at about 2.15.
8458,758 in 1928.
that the airship was 600 miles west of Gibraltar and that "all is well."-Reuter..
"Going Strong"
New York, Yesterday. The "Graf Zeppelin was report- ed at 9 p.m. (Greenwich mean time) to have passed San Miguel (Azores) and "going strong.".
The Atlantic weather reports | are good.-Reuter's American Ser-
vice.
"TOBACCO KING”
MR. BERNHARD. BARON PASSES AWAY
RICH AND GENEROUS
London, Yesterday. The millionaire tobacco magnate,
columni, costing $527,820 as against p.m." startled the others Mr. Berhard Baron, has died sud-
BODY DUMPED
CULPRIT TOO OLD FOR JAIL
An aged Chinese was this morning charged before Mr. E. W. Hamilton, at the Central Magistracy, with dumping the body of a small child in West
Point,
Divisional Inspector Bloor told the Magistrate that there were no suspi cious circumstances attached to the child's death. It was about three daya
old. Accused dumped it yesterday afternoon on the hill above Queen's- --- road, near Sand-street..
Questioned by the Magistrate accus-
ed said that he had picked the body up. ¡: in Woo Hup-street, Shektongksul, and
decided to dump it up the hill
** Magistrate. I suppose you have real-
ly been paid to do it. A man of your
the. atation Several rushed denly, aged 78. Baron, as a poor to the storeroom and there Russo-Jewish emigrant, went to they found Sher Mohamed lying America, and later settled in Eng dead in a pool of blood, the shot land having taken instantaneous effect.
His charitable benefactions are
The body was removed to the estimated at $2,000,000. He had Public Mortuary.oved to the frequently avowed his determins
Sher Mohamed had been in the tion to die poor-Reuter. Hong Kong Police Force for about three years, and it is believed that he took his own life as the result of having been in ill bealth ever since his arrival here from India.
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He has been doing this for three and a half years, in spite of the fact that I warned him not to? was the state- ment made by Traffic Inspector F. Winyard of the Kowloon Railway, Washington, Yesterday when Leung Sang (28)- a signalman Mr. E. C. Wilson, First Secre employed at the Hunghom Station, was age ought to know better. You are call-tary at the U.S. Embassy in Paris, charged at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning before Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith for having in his possession 16 of prepared Chinese tobacco and 180 - packets of cigarettes without paying duty on them
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His Worship remarked tubsequently will be the American observer at that he could not send a man of the the forthcoming Hague Conter accused's age to fail.
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His Worship Intimated that defend- sat must have had a little business in tobacco on his own, to which Mr. Talion: rep
In the affirmative The Revenue Officer went on to say that this
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