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LEAGUE AND CHINA HATRY SENSATION
IMPORTANCE OF PROPOSAL APPRECIATED
OBSOLETE TREATIES
Geneva, Yesterday.
la conection with China's pro- pasal regarding obsolete treaties, the sub-committee will submit to
PRESS DEMANDS STIFFENING OF STOCK EXCHANGE
PUBLIC ANXIOUS
CAFE QUARREL
JAPANESE SOLDIERS ARREST CHINESE POLICE
GUARDS FIRED ON
London, Yesterday,
Tokyo, Yesterday. Public anxiety over the
Hatry A message to the Rengo News| (Photomaton) sensation is shown Agency states that a quarrel which
a plenary sitting of the first com- by the demand of newspapers for started between Chinese policemen mittee to-morrow a resolution ap- a stiffening of Stock Exchange re-and a Japanese soldier at a restaur previating the importance of China'sgulations as regards company issues, ant in Tichling this afternoon, as- proposal, and declaring that any
sumed serious dimensiona when the meuler of the league may place on in order to protect investors: and Chinese police fired on C.R. Rail- (the agenda of the Assembly the also the reform of the Stock Ex-way guards from behind, wounding
question whether the Assembly change Committee itself.
three. The Japanese garrison rust- should give advice as contemplated in Article 19 regarding the treaties. now considered inapplicable.-Reu-
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PRIVATES CHARGED
EVIDENCE OF OLD WOMAN'S DAUGHTER
ANOTHER ADJOURNMENT
At the resumption of the case of alleged assault against Privates Thomas McEwen and Harry Shea, of the King's Own Scottish Bar- derers, before Mr. E. W. Hamilton, yesterday afternoon, the injured old woman's daughter, Chan Pui-shan (10), gave evidence.
It is pointed out that even the ed a battalion to the Chinese police station, disarmed all the Chinese Bank of England lets the public police, and arrested those respon- know its official desires and safe-sible for the incident.-Eeuter. guards more readily than the Stock Exchange.
Questions are to be asked in the House of Commons as regards the huge loases of small investors, due to the crash of companies formed during last year's Industrial boom. Among the suggestions widely dis-
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Chan Pui-shan said that on the night of August 30 she and her mother were sitting at the doorway of their shop at No. 3, Shelley- street. At about 11 p.m., two Bri- tish soldiers appeared. They swung ****8.30983585683148 toward the pavement on which wit- news and her mother were sitting, and, picking the old woman up,
ung her across the street. Her mother did not ris6 after her fall. Leaving the old woman in the charge of somebody else, witness went after the soldiers in company of European Police Sergeant. Witness could not suggest any rea- son for the assault on her mother. The soldiers were finally arrested in Lyndhurst Terrace.
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Colombo, Yesterday. A wireless from the Hamburg- Amerika s.s. "Höchst," which ran aground off the island of Minicoy Saturday, while homeward bound from the Far East, reports: "Two tanks in the fore part of the ship, and also the for peak, are |full of water. The two lower holds
Rush are partly flooded.
help. Ship uncontrollable."
The cargo, including rubber and tea, shipped to Colombi jettisoned. A tag hay assist.—Reuter,
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gone to
cussed are firstly, the appointment of a responsible City Board to con- trol all appeals to the public to purchase stocks and shares; and secondly, the formation of a Nation- ARCHBISHOP DEAD al Investment Trust, supervised by the State, to protect investors.
Clearing the Position
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A meeting of the Stock Exchange Committee has decided to appoint
The ease was adjourned for a a sub-committee to examine the
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clearing sheets of the various Hatry group stocks, with a view to an | elucidation of the position.
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The death is announced of Arch- bishop Cardinal Dubois-Reuter.
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to be required supply the sub-committee with the OPIUM IN BARRACKS names of clients for whom they have dealt, and no prices for these With a very bad record for speed-stocks are to be made up at present!
a lorry driver was yester for settlement purposes. day charged before Mr. T. S. Whyte. Smith, at the Kowloon Magistracy, for driving a Sanitary Department lorry over the speed limit in Wuhu street. Sergt. Scrim said that going along Chatham-road the ac, cused did 25 miles per hour, and when he turned into the control arta in Wuhu street he only re duced to 20 miles. After a long list of previous convictions had been proved, accused was fined $40.
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"guilty" to a with regard to the third charge, should be dropped as t could net and suggested that the other two be proved that accused either had personal custody and possession of the opium, or that he did know-
The Stock Exchange to-day open- ed cautiously, but apart From a number of international stocks re flecting weakness of continental, Bourses, the general tone was com paratively steady.
Business Is smail, and the general, ingly or wilfully have it on the inclination is
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Compulsory Liquidation
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The Magistrate said that the onus was on the accused to prove that accountant he did not have possession or guilty Sir Gilbert Garnsey's preliminary knowledge and unless he went examination of the Hatry affair, into the witness box to discharge the Board of Corporation and Gen- that onus, he would convict. eral Securities, Limited.
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August 20 and immediately star Petitions for the compulsory ed loading a cargo of manganese winding up of the Oak Investment ore. Each night he went ashore Corporation, Ltd., the Austin for information." leaving Friars Trust, Ltd., and the Dundee children, the eldest of whom was Trust, Ltd., will also be presented. a girl of 16, to look after the junk.
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The Magistrate decided that though he did not think this de- sion would be upset if he convic ed the accused on the two coun of possession, because he had nob fully discharged the onus, it could be reasonably believed that accused did not know of the pre- board. sence of the opium on Therefore he would be given the benefit of that doubt and discharg-
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