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HONG KONG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1931.
IS HE PICKPOCKET ?
SUSPECT REMANDED IN
KOWLOON.
DOG RACING.
TO BE ABOLISHED IN
SHANGHAI.
CHINESE OPPOSITION.
Shanghai, Yesterday.
CHOLERA EXPERT.
DEATH OF DR. WALDEMAR HAFFKINE.
Dr. Waldemar Haffkine, the A case of alleged pick-pocketing
famous, bacteriologist, who in the was tried by Mr. Butters this morn-
early part of this century, perfected ing at the Kowloon Magistracy The Municipal Council, after a inoculation against cholera and when Wong Kau was charged with long controversy, has decided to plague, and thereby saved many stealing a puree containing $10 abolish dog racing in the Interns-thousands of lives in India, has from Chan Sun, a rice shop foki. tiphal Betilament as from March died in Lausanne at the age of
Inspector Fallon said that com-131. The decision is fully support-70. plainant was looking into a shoped by the British Consul.
Dr. Haffkine's early life was window, when defendant brushed. The Council is prepared to take | spent at Odessa; from 1889 to 1893) against him and extracted his over the leases of the dog tracks he acted as assistant to Pastear purse. On being noticed, defer-of the two companies concerned, in Paris, then he went to India. dant dropped the purse, and it was and will give consideration to He refused to protect the pro- immediately pleked up by another cases of individual hardship of phylactic which he perfected man, who ran away. Chan Sun employees.
there, but gave away, his rights in seized the defendant and a melee The companies have been init to the Indian Government for ensued ending in the latter being formed that in view of opposition arrested. Evidence was given by a by the Chinese to this form of gan- district watchman who heard the bling in Shanghai, the political alarm and arrested the man.
aspect of the question, in addition Defendant denfed the charge and to other objectionable features, has said that he was assaulted by com- become a matter of grave concern. plainant and another man.
Dog racing in the French Con- cassion is under control of the French Council, and is not affect-
A remand of 48 hours in police custody was granted to allow defen- dant to produce a witness named] ed.-Reuter. Chan Kau who was present at the scene of the affair.
LIBERIA SLAVERY,
A CAT BURGLAR.
"I went there to steal a pair of trousers, so that I could pawn them.
TRAFFIC TO BE STOPPED BY and get some money to buy food"
GOVERNMENT.
the common geod.
Once during the war Dr Haffkine was called into consulta- tion by the Government.
It was at a moment of crisis, when our troops in the Near East were gravely threatened by cholera, typhoid, and dysentery.
Thanks to the advice given by Dr. Haffkine and other author- ities, the danger, which nearly brought about a complete with drawal of the British forces, was averted.
EMPIRE TOUR.
WEST INDIES. -
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was the excuse offered by a Chin- cae, who Was this morning PUBLIC SCHOOLBOYS TO VISIT Geneva, Yesterday. charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell The Liberian representative to in the Central Police Court with the League of Nations writes to being a rogue and vagabond. the local press that, immediately Detective-Sergeant Meadows said upon receipt of the League Com-that the defendant climbed up to mission's report in September, the the first foor verandah of a house Liberlan Government took steps in Hau Wo Street, West Point, by to remove the cause of complaints, means of a drain pipe. mentioned therein, as to continu-' Having admitted a previous con- ed slave traffic in Liberia.-Reu-viction, defendant was sentenced to
two months' hard labour,
ter.
[I was reported on January 7 that the United States was making repre- sentations to Liberia on the question of these slavery allegations.]
TWO WINDFALLS.
SIR T. LIPTON'S GIFT TO GLASGOW.
Rugby, Yesterday.
Sir Walter Runciman, the ship-i owner, has given £25,000 to New- castle Infirmary for an extension of the Nurses' Home; and Sir Thomas Lipton has presented £10,000 to Glasgow for assistance of poor mothers and children, in memory of his mother and in gratitude to his native, city---Bri- tish Wireless Service.
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Rugby, Yesterday. The sixth Public School Empire tour began yesterday, when party of boys left for the West
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STORM IN PEKING.
TEMPERATURE DROPS WELL BELOW ZERO.
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The temparature has dropped- below zero Fahrenheit and a num- ber of deaths of beggars and others are already reported.-Reuter.
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