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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1931.
For having unlawful possession BLAZING MOTOR CAR THE MAN WHO NEVER
of 9.6 taels of raw opium, which was concealed in his girdle, u Chin
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arrested in Shanghai
Street am at the Kowlodh : Court
TRIAL
to-day fined $108 or no mouth's Appeal Against Death imprisonment.
A fine of $3,120 or ton months' imprisonment W35 linposed on Chung Wal-ching, who was charged at Kowloon Magistracy this morn- ing with having unlawful posses sion of 104 taels of raw opium at Kowloon Railway Station.
Ko Fuk-kan was sent to jall for five weeks by Mr. Butters. at the Kowloon Court this morning, for stealing a silk coat and jacket, the property of Li Chi-chow, a tallor, of No. 29, Cumberland Road, Kow- loon Tong on February 16.
Dismissed.
CALLOUS CRIME.
London, Yostorday:
FEELS SURE.
Doctors Analyse Curious Nervous. Afflictions.
TESTS ON 1,000 PERSONS.
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More than 1.000. persons, ranging The Court of Criminal Appeal, from an office boy to a company
and consisting of Lords "Justices He director,
including clorical wart, Avory and, Humphreys has workers in Government depart-
and
commercial firms, dismlased Rouse's appeal aga net ments: acntence of death, after Sir factory workers, holders of ad- Patrick Hastings, on behalf of the ministrative posts and students of condemned man, had urged that both sexes, have been subjected to a on which "nerves" test conducted under the there was no evidence
convicted. auspices of the Industrial Health he could properly be He contended that Rouse had been Research Board in Britain.
The tests were carried out by Dr. convicted on prejudice and merely
Mais Culpin and Dr. May Smith, on grave suspicion. Reuter,
[The sensational "blazing motor and consisted of- Chan Pui, a Chinese boy, was ordered to receive eight strokes of car trial" before the Northampton A personal interview with each
Arthur aubject lasting twenty minutes. the cane at the Kowloon Court this Assizes, in which Alfred
Tesla with a dotting machine, morning for stealing 7 lb, of sheet Rouse was charged with murder. copper from the Kwong Hop Leunging an unknown man, whose re-dots having to be made in a series mains were discovered in the of circles passing at an increasing Shipyard. Tan Ming, the receiver burnt wreckage of Rouse's motor speed. was sent to jail for three months.
The result of the doctors' in-. car on November 6 last and stil remain unidentified, resulted in a quiries is published. verdict of guilty on January 31, face the Industrial Health Research
sen- Board state:
"The conclusions drawn may sub- and the convicted man was tenced to death.
In evidence, it was dlaciosed lect the authors to the criticism with Beveral that they Were dealing that Rouse had set up domestic establishments in dif-abnormal people, or else that they ferent parts of England, and the saw abnormalities where
zona in
"I took it because I needed it" was the excuse proffered by Au Yeung-oam, who was charged be fore Mr. Butters at Kowloon Court this morning with ...cutting --- quantity of wire cable from No. 15 and 17 Cameron Road yesterday. Two months' imprisonment was imposed.
Mr. J. R. Whitta was fined $5 by Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Magistracy this morning. Не pleaded guilty to a summons which accused him of having caused an obstruction with his motor car in the Lower Albert Road outside Colonial Secretariat's Office on February 13, at 5.10 p.m.
In their pre
prosecution contended that he had fact existed.
Too Sure. decided it was time to "disappear."
"It is, therefore, thought well to The unknown man is believed to have been a miner, whom Rause emphasise that the authors merely is presumed to have given a lift recorded the evidence presented. to to, then murdered, and set fire to them, and in drawing their deduc- tione tried to qvoid any such pit his car with the body in it.]
falls." SILVER PROBLEM.
CHINA WILLING TO CO-OPERATE.
"REALISTIC MEASURES."
The popular expressions, ataté the Investigators, Buch BX "neurotic," "highly strung." "nerv- ous," "nervy," or "temperamental," are all more or less synonymous.
There was the person who was never sure he was right, with whom any challenge would immediately Manking, Yesterday.
Cause doubts. to rise, and at the Mr. T. V. Soong expressed great other end was the person who was interest when Interviewed regard-as irrationally sure he could not be ing the resolution of the Executive wrong. He dared not let himself Committee of the Internationalbe wrong. Chamber of Commerce, calling upor In others was an irrational in- members to urge their Governments ability to consider a piece of work. to take the silver problem into carly finished, in spite of the fact that i consideration.
had been done with meticulous Mr. Soong stated that if an in-accuracy.
A Chinese woman of Saiyingpun 13.41 per cent.! Cotton piece
was this morning-charged beforo goods prices fell considerably in Mr.. W. Schofield, at the Central 1930-as compared with 1924 and, Magistracy, with having had in her not taking this factor into considera-control a mui tsai who was
Colony. De tion, it would be reasonable to registered in the
fendant pleaded ignorance of the assume that the total volume of law and said that she had been in A fine of cotton piece goods entering Hong Hong Kong off and on. Kong from .Japan
$50 was imposed. proximate to, if not in excess of, A conviction, stated to be 25 the volume imported in the boom years old, was produced against a
at the Central ternational conference on silver "Some are afflicted with doubts. year, 1924. From the comparn-Chinese woman
they have done a trivlat tive table compiled by the Statis-Magistracy this morning when she should be held the National Gov-after before pleaded guilty
Mr. Wernment would be ready to parti-action, such as turning off a light, tical Office of the chief items of Schofield to the unlawful possession cipate, and would co-operate in any locking a door, ote, and are com- measures leading topelled to go back and verify it, even cotton piece goods imported from of two tails of filcit opium. His realistic
Was ap-
a fine of 8840 stabilisation of the value of allver. thoug). they know, the net has been
the United Kingdom and Japan Worship impoeed
with the alternative of three-Reuter.
during the nine months-April to December, 1930--it will be noted that in practically every line the quantities imported from Japan
months' hard labour.
Pleading guilty to the larceny of 14 pounds of lead, the property of
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NAVAL STRENGTH.
done.
"There are people who have got out of bed several times in a night
to verify some such act; they may
the Taikoo Dockyard, a Chinese wa BRITISH MINISTERS LEAVE FOR even write down a statement to the
were far greater than those from fined $20 or une month's hard the United Kingdom.
labour, by Mr. Schofield in the These are staggering figures Central Police Court this morning. It was stated by Mr. G. Bird (head without a doubt-figures that will watchman of the Docks) that ac- undoubtedly give the British cused had been employed by a con- Economic Mission a considerable tractor for many years.
Hong Kong, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 1931. amount of perturbation. All the
FATAL CASES OF SMALL-POX AND DIPHTHERIA.
TRADE LOSSES.
Nothing can bring home to the British Economic Mission and| manufacturers in Great Britain the vital need for an enquiry into British trade in the Orient like enquiry, moreover, might elicit
the fact that Japanese and Diphtheria
the striking Agures published on page one to-day-relative to the The local piece-goods trade. Statistical Office naturally
PARIS.
PACT WITH FRANCE?
effect that it has been done, and yet. find no conviction."
This has been described. as "e Bentiment d'incompletude," which could be expressed by the words, "a feeling of left undone."
Traille Fears.
Other fears in disproportionate
London, Yesterday. Mr. Arthur. Henderson with Mr. A. V. Alexander and three officials of the Foreign Offre, Kesera. Craigie, Walford and Selby, left strength, such as fears associated for Paris this morning to confer with the dark, or traffic, or being with the French Cabinet on the alone, etc., need not in themselves affect work, but their presence naval question.
This is regarded as indicating pointed to emotional dileulties. that В Franco-British arrange. will agree ment whereby, France
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phenomenal British trade losses A WEEK'S DISEASES. cannot be put down to the fall in exchangé. Other factors must be
These characteristics in exag- states the report, gerated form,' operating in the local market to the detriment of British manu- factures and to the advantage of and deaths during the week end-over Italy le practically certain to
The official return of diseases to a smaller margin of superiority are the symptoms and disabilities that lead patiente to seek treat-
The ment.
sentiment d'Incom- Japanese manufactures. Carefuled February 21 is as follows- he concluded-Reuter.
pletude may cause such indecision and distress that it constitutes the main factor in a breakdown, while fears of traffic, of solitude, of crowds, of open or closed spaces, may deprive life of its usefulness.
"The word neurasthenia is xree- conditions, in- Villagers of Wigginton, nearly used for many
should be reserved for a relatively biggest laugh of their lives.
uncommon a donkey being
type of disability in First, they saw
there is an incapacitating chased by a pack of hounds in full which
Smallpox
Chinese are not alone purchasers Enteric fever
Cases Deatha i
I
1
2
1
1
of Japanese cotton piece goods. Cerebro-epinal fever.
Tuberculosis trade here, and even Britons are Portuguese help to swell Japan's Summary To February 21.
TALLY-O NEDDY.
THE DONKEY THAT WENT A-HUNTING.
frains from attempting any known to patronise the Chinese February 14 give the following Tring (Henrts), have just had the cluding those just referred to. 'It
The returns from January 1 to gurea:-----
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ery across the .fields." They could floss of volition in regard to mental and physical activity, without hardly believe their eyes.
or, obsessional Suddenly the hounds picked up typical anxiety
Cases, Deaths
28
3
4
2
2
29
11
2
the scent of a for and turned off symptoms.”
2
1
In another direction, and Wiggin
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planation of what it describes as the phenomenal losses of British stalls where Japanese cotton piece manufacturers in the Hong Kong Foods are on sale at three, four, Typhoid market, contenting itself with and five yards a dollar. How, Smallpox
Scarlet fever then, can British manufacturers compiling
Diphtherȧi self-explanatory,
hope to recover their lost market Cerebro-upinal fever 4 but
most useful, table.
There when resident Britons not Puerperal fever Only recently we had od
only reject their goods in favour Tuberculosis....... casion to comment on the attitude
Nine of the typhoid cases were amazement. of Japanese but publicly advocate of a contemporary, itself depen- what amounts to cutting out over cases and nine diphtheria ears set back, had enjoyed the th
ron-Chinese, as were two scarlet dent on British advertisements
purchases of British manufac-cases.
ton's astonishment turned to ulter
For Neddy, braying and with his
of the chase. He wheeled round') and, wedging his way into the middle of the pack, hunted with them for several miles.
FOUND GUILTY.
PIRACY OFF PEDRO
BLANCO...
The twelve Chinese arraigned' ou piracy charges at the Assizes In Full Cry.
were all found "Guilty" yesterday; Captain H. R. Phipps, the master the jury arriving at their finding of the Tring and Distrier Farmers' after fifteen minutes' deliberation: Draghounds said: "I went out with The Acting Chief Justice (Mr.. a kunnelman to exercise the hounds. 3. R. Wood) postponed sentence There were tan couples, and when pending the hearing of a legal noar Wigginton I decided to call on point before, the Full Court. a'farmor friend,
and British support generally, in tured goods on the score of the clamouring for the purchase of prevailing high prices occasioned local Chinese-made. and Canton-
UNITED EUROPE. by the alump in exchange. Are made goods. It was apparently
Britons both at Home and in this
FIRST STEPS TAKEN IN quite aware of the fact that the
Colony content to see British
PARIS. greatest proportion of Orient-
trade not only dwindle but abso manufactured piece goods sold by lutely fade cut? If so, they may
PEACE AT STAKE. as well give up all pretence of
Paris, Yesterday. loyalty, change their nationality, What M. Briand described as "When we reached the farm the and join the campaign in the first tangible result of the donkey, which was grazing in a
4 favour of purchasing nothing but movement for a European.federa-fald, brayed and started to gallop
tion was initiated to-day with the away.
The hounds set off in- full Oriental-made goods!
opening at the Qual D'Orsay of cry before I could realise what had the European Agricultural. Con-happened.
the local Chinese "never, naw China but came here direct from Japan?
Thus we are informed now that whilst, Japan's share of the local piece goods market in 1930 ap proximated that of 1924, the Bri- tish figure fell by over £2,500,000: That must be a bitter pill for those who sought to discourage the purchase of British manufac
News in Brief. The P. & O. as, Kashmir. from Hong Kong arrived London February 22, 9 a..
2
Ten Years Ago.
From the "China" Mall" -of
February 24, 1921.J· ·
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cable ac
ference, attended by the represen- Then, just a suddenly, they tatives of 24. Européen States, to picked up the scent of a fox and The "Hong Kong Chiness Recrea consider the problem of Europe's wheeled about, and Neddy, when he tion Club has replied to the Strafta
discovered that he was belag.hunt-Chinese Association's on cereal export surpluses.
M. Briand welcoming the deled a longer; also turned about, and, cepting their suggestion of a: Chin- gates, declared that the moment catching up with the pack racedens Interport Tennis tournament, tures here to swallow! In 1924 Fong Ping, the Chinese who was had come to put European soli-or some distance with hounds all and offering to play them at home. A telegram has since been received Great Britain recorded 65.59 of remanded at the Kowloon Magis darity to the test. What really round him
tracy on Friday last, made another was at stake was not the ques "Draghounds are not so strictly from Ipoh stating that a Stribr the total imports of cotton piece appearance: yesterday afternoon, tion of the distribution of cereal trained as foxhounds and are Chinese team will make the Journey goods into Hong Kong, whilst the Mr. Butters committing the defens surplus, but the maintenance of rather inclined to hunt anything to Hong Kong carly in April The
He is peace-Reuter nasé proportion amounted to dant to the Assizes.~ 23.05 per cent. The position was charged with aubing-Wong Six-
cheun at No. 60, Laichikok Road, onThe soccer winger should very when the March 27, 1928, together with four rarely dribbls. The moment
be crowded, he should per others not in custody, and armed appears
1son share fell to with two platals and two daggers, part with the ball An
that will rum before them. It was telegram-further states that it is all very amusing, and it all ended hoped that sufficient players to play quite happily. My farmer friend three doubles and three singles told me that his labourers laughed matches will be able to make the so much they were unable to go on lp. The CRC is making at
rangements accordingly with their work..