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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1931.
CANADIAN PREMIER MR. CHURCHILL TO REHABILITATION OF
VISITS U.S.A.
To Discuss Question of Boundary Crossing.
CLOSER CO-OPERATION.
Ottawa, Yesterday.
RETIRE?
SILVER.
Ex-Chancellor Disagrees Mr. Snowden Does Not
with Mr. Baldwin.
MAY ENTER BUSINESS.
Favour Joint Action,
"NO USEFUL PURPOSE."
London, Yesterday.
London, Yesterday. The Prime Minister. Mr. J. R. The Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, In the House of Commons at Bennett, accompanied by Mr.in 4 latter to Mr. Stanley question time Mr. Philip Snowden Macinder, United States Minister Baldwin on January 27, states: said that he was not aware that lof Canada, has left for "Now that our divergence of any practicable proposals for Washington to confer with views on the Indian policy be the rehabilitation of the President Hoover
of inter came publie I feel that I should no value on,
silver had .80 alia, the development of the longer attend the meetings of for been suggested and in deep waterways of the St. your Business Committee," and his opinion no useful purpose Lawrence route, and the removal adds that he will give Mr. Baldwin would be served by approaching of undue restrictions on crossing the utmost assistance to secure the French or United States Gov- and re-crossing the boundary by the defeat of the Socialist Governments with a view to taking Canadians and Americans.
ernment.
joint action in the matter.-- Reuter.
MINE EXPLOSION. OVER 20 MEN SAID TO BE
MISSING,
He may also suggest an Mr. Baldwin replied on January Americo Canadian economic 28, stating that much as he re zollerein to meet the threat of grets the decision not to attend Russian competition, particularly the meetings of his old colleagues, in agricultural products, timber. he is convinced that the decision wood pulp, and coal-Reuter. is correct in the circumstances. and agrees with Mr. Churchill KOCHOW REFLOATED that there is nothing in a differ- ence of opinion on a single policy
London, Yesterday. to prevent close and loyal co-
Between 40 and 50 men are operation in doing his utmost to turn out the present Government estimated to be missing in an To Enter Commerce? explosion at Haig Pit, White- Mr.
withdrawal haven. Churchill's After being aground for four
Three Rescued. days near Campbell Island in the from the Business Committee West River, about five miles below confirms the suspicion in political Shamshui, the a.s. Kochow was re-quarters that he is to be excluded floated last evening.
EXPECTED IN HARBOUR THIS AFTERNOON,
She is reported to have sustained little or no damage as the result of her stranding, and after she was taken off anchored in the river over night.
It is understood that she was to make for Hong Kong this morning and may be expected to arrive here
this afternoon.
RUNAWAY ENGINE.
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT AT AGRAM.
Belgrade, Dec. 15.
Later.
still
So far eight bodies have been! from Mr. Baldwin's next Cabinet, recovered. Three men were res- It is freely suggested that Mr. cued, two of whom were badly Churchill is aware of this and in gassed. Twenty men are view of his antagonism to Mr. missing.-Reuter. Baldwin's Indian policy he has seized the opportunity gracefully to retire from the sphere of Gov- ernment. It is strongly rumour. ed that Mr. Churchill will shortly
accept à commercial appointment. -Reuter.
BANKNOTE TRICK.
TWO CHINESE WOMEN VICTIMS.
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SYNTHETIC GOLD.
PRISON FOR MAN WHO TRICKED
CHEMISTS.
Cologne, Dec. 20. How conjuring tricks "produced” gold and yielded the trickster $12,000 was revealed during the trial of the "Goldmaker of Hilden," Heinrich Kurschildgen, who has been sentenced at Duesseldorf to 18 wo-months' imprisonment for fraud.
Kurschildgen claimed that he!
Cheung Tal-mul, a married man, and Chan Wal-yuk, a con-
only sufficient gold to pay Ger many's reparations, but also plati- num and silver.
A terrible accident happened when a manoeuvring locomotive rushed into a group of travellers cubine, have been added to the al-could manufacture from aand not stepping out from the express at ready long list of victims of the Agram Station, where there are famous "bank note trick." level platform crossings. Three
The former, who resides at 63, people died and thirty were taken Hollywood Road, reported to the to hospital terribly mutilated. The driver and staker of the locomotive were both immediately arrested.
A chauffeur who witnessed the scone wag so affected that he be- came mad swallowed
a bottle of acid and died in agony.
[Agram (Zagreb) is the chief town of Croatia and Slovania fn the Kingdom of Yugo-Slavia.]
Police that at about 9. p.m. on Janu- ary 28, she met two men in Queen's Road near the Central Market, and was relieved of jewellery to the value of $213.
According to the prosecution the manufacture was a mere sleight of band and consisted of passing, an electric current through a mixture of sand and water in a bottle, but somehow Kurschildgen managed to Half an hour before the Incident Introduced gold into the bottle.- on the same day, the concubine, who Kurschildgen not only convinced dwells at 66. Queen's Road, met professors and chemists, but also the same two men apparently, for Induced Anglo-American and Ger- she had taken from her jewellery to man-American financial groupe to the value of $95.
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