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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1929.
WIDOWS' PENSIONS NATIONALISATION AT
NEW BILL TO GIVE WIDER BENEFITS
WILL COST £8,000,000
London, Yesterday. Over 500,000 more widows than those who now receive pensions will be entitled to 10/- weekly under the Government B published to-day, Amending the Pensions Bill of 1925. The Bill will cost about £8,000,000 {yearly.
LAST
THE CORDS SHOWN
GOVERNMENT TO CONTROL
MINING ROYALTIES
MINERS HOURS REDUCED
London, Yesterday.
SHIPYARD FIRE
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TWO LARGE FISHING JUNKS DESTROYED
FIREMEN'S DIFFICULT TASK
Yesterday, afternoon a big fre broke out in the Tung Yick Chinese shipyard on the Lalchikok Road, at! Cheungshawan. Two large fahing junks were reduced to ashes before the fire fighters got the upper hand. The origin of the outbreak is
The recent negotiations be- tween the Government, the coal unknown. Widows of 70 will automatically owners, and the miners has reach- Engines from the Kowloon Fire receive pensions without disqualified a definite stage. The Govern- Station and the Mongkok Sub- ention or reduction for means,
ment sub-committee has informed station were early on the scene, but residence, or nationality. Pension the minora that it has decided to the inflammatory nature of the ers will no longer lose their pensions reduce the working day by half goods stored in the shipyard made a If they emigrate to the Dominions. an hour early in 1939 without a very difficult task for the firemen. The Bill prolongs the right of reduction of wages. A further The two burnt dshing boats were widows under 65 to a pension until
being overhauled in the shipyard the youngest child is 16, instead of
and were early doomed, the fire 14.
spreading rapidly in their direction with a breeze behind. The blaze was finally extinguished at 6.18 p.m., when the "all clear" was given.
Widows between 55 and 70 whose husbands come under the Health Insurance Act, hut who died before January 4, 1926, when widows' pensions were instituted, will be now entitled to a ponalon.-Reuter.
HARBOUR TRAGEDY
EARLY MORNING FATALITY AS LINER BERTHS
COOLIE DROWNED
A fatality occurred early this morning as the Blue Funnel 1lner "Ixion" was manoeuvring in har bour, for a barth at a buoy when, in an endeavour to scramble on board the vessel by means of a rope, a coolie missed his hold and fell pear the stern.
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He was not seen again, and it is presumed that he was hit by the revolving propeller, and drowned.
A subsequent report of the acci- dent was made by Captain W. I. Dougall, master of the vessel con- cerned, to the 'Harbour Office.
The 8.8.
"Ixion" arrived hero from the North, having made ̈n- passage from Scattle.
GEN. WU TECHEN
TO VISIT THE TOMBS OF HIS ANCESTORS
TRIP OF INSPECTION
Canton, Yesterday. General Wu Techen, a member
of the Central Executive Committee, who has returned from Wuchow from a trip of inspection of the conditions of that port, is leaving to-day for Chung Shan to pay a visit to his ancestral tombs, General Wu will remain in Chung Shan for a few days, after which he will leave for Hong Kong, taking, the flost steamer for Shanghai. Canton. News Agency.
FRESH TO FINE
To-day's weather report from the Royal Observatory states:
An anti-cyclone of moderate intensity covers N. China, and a depression is situated in the Sea of Japan.
The typhoon has recurved north-eastward, and is probably Bliing up.
Another typhoon is situated about 250 miles east of Yap, probably moving W.N.W.
A fresh monsoon may be ex- pected along the coast and over the North China Sea.
Forecast:-N.E. winds; fresh
to fine.
The following telegram has been received from Manila Observatory by the American Consul:
9.00 a.m. Typhoon in about 124 degrees Long. E. and 21 degrees Lat. N., moving N.
Typhoon in about 142 degrees Long. E. and 12 degrees Lat. N., moving N.W.
reduction of half an hour will be made later in the year if possible.
Demoralising Effect
The Government spokesman de- clared that the owners begged] them not to increase the hours, which would have a demoralising effect now, as the industry is slowly recovering, but, the Govern- ment resolved as above.. It also stated that there was not yet
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The burning of the two junks involve the loss of between six and seven thousand dollars, whilst dam- age to shipyard property is con- siderable.
There were no casualties.
MOLASSES MASH
CHARGES AGAINST NATIVE DISTILLERY
REMOVAL OF SPIRIT
Yesterday afternoon Mr. T, S. Whyte-Smith heard a case at the Kowloon Magistracy in which the Wong Wo Sun 'native distillery of Cheungshawan, were summoned on three counts as follow:-
(1) failing to record in his molasses mash book the addition of molasses to molasses mash lu mash kongs, the full charge of molasses having been already re- corded as placed in the kongs.
(2) removing and distilling certain molassca mash from molasses mash kong, auch molasses mash being recorded in his molasses mash book as being due for distillation.
(3) removing from his dis- tillery premises approximately 60 gallons of newly-distilled, dutiable Chinese spirit without a remova!! permit from the Superlatendent | of Imports and Exports.
Mr. H. A. Taylor, Assistant of Imports and
sufficient opportunity for examin-Superintendent ing the owners' plan of co-ordina- Exports, prosecuted, whilst the de- schemes, which, although a step M. K. Lo. tion and district marketing fendants were represented by Mr.
the right direction, would prob ably prove insufficiently wide or occupied by Mr. Taylor in giving The whole of the sitting was representative of other interests. technical evidence to the effect that The Government has definitely some of the "kongs" of spirit were decided to nationalise mining found to have been distilled from royalties. The reorganisation one to three days before the dates scheme will be subject to legis- due for distillation.. These dis- lation operative on January 1.tillations were not recorded In the
FRENCH EVACUATE | Reuter.
LISTLESS GERMANS WATCH
TROOPS DEPART
Cologne, Yesterday. The inhabitants listlessly watch- Fed the beginning of the French
evacuation of the second which is being carried out now according to plan-Reuter,
годе.
As the result of the British Mission to the Argentine, a re- ciprocal trading agreement has been provisionally concluded. During
the next two years the Argentine Government will take, approximate- ly, 28,000,000 worth of British goods, and food products of a similar amount will be purchased by Britala from Argentina.
The reported withdrawal by the Bombay Government of a charge against a member of the Legislative Chamber, who, with others, was accused of abducting a young wife and murdering her husband, has aroused a storm of criticism in the] Sind newspapers.
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day
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defendant's books. The mash had been removed from the "kongs" and replaced with a mixture of molassen and water. This was discovered during a surprise raid on the after-| noon of September 24.
The case was adjourned.
DEATH SENTENCE
SENTIMENT INFLAMED AT. COURT'S ORDER
MASS MEETING'S BROKEN-UP
Belgrade, Yesterday. The death sentence passed at Pola by a special Italian tribunal. on a Serbian student for firing en voters at the last general elec tion in the village of Pisino has inflamed sentiment in Yugoslavia. Mass meetings at Zagreb were broken up by the Police.
Students are preparing a world wide campaign in the Press and Universities. The tribunal sen- tenced four others, aged 17, and 30 years, to imprisonment Eeuter.
NEW SOVIET LAND
TADJIKISTAN TO BE MERGED MARRIN REPUBLIC (
PROCLAMATION AT CONGRESS
Moscow, Yesterday,
At an extraordinary Congress of the Soviet, M. Duohombe pro claimed Tadjikistan, hitherto part of the Usher Republie to be henceforth merged in the Union of Soviet Republics-Reuter
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