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meat and considerable in regard to other products.
THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1931.
and drive of the British-Argen- A keture O "Progress Cond- BRUTAL MURDERS OF
Law and Commerce," will be delivered by the Roy.
tine colony - is a splendid effort toned by in the right direction. It inevit- Father G. Byrno, S.J., D. Phil., on
EUROPEANS.
ably leads one to the conclusion Tuesday at 8.30 p.m. In the Union that an exhibition on similar times assambly Room of the University Lady Missionaries Killed might in the near future be ar-
în Bed. The steam launch Hoi On is re-i ranged in Hong Kong or Canten ported to be around on a spit, run- for the encouragement of Sins- ning out of the foreshore of Chine!
CHILDREN UNHARMED. British trade. One earnestly live Island, near Castle Peak Day. No damage has been done to the hopes that its effects may not be, hull, and no casualties are reported. as has been the case so often be-; fare, more or less rapidly evanes. cent; that will be made clear that goods can be offered at a com- petitive price to the ultimate pur chaser.
News in Brief.
Shanghai, Yesterday. The Seventh Day Adventist MIB-
A year's hard inbour, was passed |sion hero has reeefyed a wire from on Leung Tai-shing in the Kowloon Yunnaniu stating that Mrs. White Police Court this morning for re-and Mrs. Miller were murdered in turning from banishment within the bed, on Monday morning. prohibited period. He was seht One was found dead, and the away in February, 1930, for ten other passed away in Yunnanfu years.
hospital shortly afterwards.
Mr. White's two children were That he picked them up in present, but were unharmed. The Nathan Road was the excuse women's husbands, however, are at
The lowest open air temperaturo | praffored by Pan Yuk, who was sent present at Tallfu, 200 miles and ten yesterday was 60 degrees. The to prison for fourteen days by days' journey from Yunnanfu,
The wire does not mention the humidity was 76 degrees both at Mr. E. W. Hamliton In the Kowloon 10 a.m. and ₫ p.m.
Police Court for having unlawful cause of the murders nor who the possession of eight iron rods in perpetrators were. Canton Road.
Peking, Yesterday. It is learned that the murdered
The annual dinner of the Oxford and Cambridge Society will take place in Lane, Crawford's Restau- rant on Saturday at 8.15 p.m.
A Chinese boy, Chan Fat-cheun, missionaries at Yunnanfu, Mrs. appeared in the Kowloon Police Miller and Mrs. White, were killed Court to-day charged with the theft during the night by discharged ser- The annual general meeting of of $1.43 front a stall in Peihovants, who fractured their skulls The Union Waterbent Co. Ltd., will Street. He snatched a basket in with hatchets, apparently while be held in the offices of Messrs. which the money was contained, and they were asleep. Dodwell and Co., Ltd., on March bolted. Eight atrokes of the cane Hitherto there have been ΠΟ
was ordered.
Political Motive?
31. at p.m.
arrests.
Dr. L Shu-pui's lecture "Post The Police Armoury Department A foreign official message from Graduate Studies Abrond" which has suffered a loss in the death of Yunnanfu, dated the 16th inst., was postponed by the University Tsol Cheuk (60), who passed away states that two American mis- Medical Society, will take place on suddenly this morning in his home.sionary Jadley were murdered Tuesday at 5.15 p.m. in the Union He had been ill for a few days. He there the previous night but their Assembly Room. All are cor-joined the Police as an armourer in names are not given,
The 1924, and was formerly connected
to dially invited.
crime is not believed with the Royal Army Ordnance have been connected with the political troublea In Yunnan where the situation is still con-
The marriage of Mr. Sal-wa Llang.Corps. B.A.. Oxun, to Mary, eldest daugh- ;
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Ho. Kwong, A girl, Cheung Ngau-nal, aged fused.
30.
will take place on Monday, March three years, was taken to the Gov- Four recalcitrant Generals have A reception will take place at jernment Civil Hospital yesterday failed to agree regarding the cons- 4 p. in the roof garden of the suffering from injuries to hertitution of the government do they No lesa an authority than the Hong Kong Hotel.
mouth, caused by a chopstick. The are requesting Lung Yun' to ro- infant accidentally fell out of bed turn to take the post. D'Abernon Trade Mission has
Priest Relensed.
General Wu Ting-yang, ex-Com-on the first floor of 53. Second made the weighty pronouncement missioner To Reconstruction in Street, West Point, the chop stick
Peking, Yesterday. The that if Argentina is to maintain Kwangsi, left Hong Kong yesterday being in her mouth at the time.
Apostolic Delegation has recelved a telegram from Mgr. her relative economic ppaition "it morning on a Japanese steamer for
Shanghai to interview President To-day in the Kowloon Police Balconi stating that Father Filia will be by British co-operation, Chiang Kai-shek on behalf of Gen-Court, Li Kin, a coolie, was sent to has been released. The telegram through holding open a free mar-eral Wang Shao-hung.
jail for one month for having un-is dated from Nanchang, Shensi, ket for Argentine production and
lawful possession of four cotton the 9th inst.
The Delegation states Professor L. Forster, M.A., will singlets, which he alleged he pick-
that this through the further investment:
deliver a lecture on "The Positioned up from underneath a mat on a leaves four Catholic missionaries of British capital" which al- of Chinese Study" on Wednesday at P. & O. ship last Saturday. "Every still in the hands of the bandits ready, in fact, amounts to over 3.30 p.m. in the Union Assembly one likes a few singlets to wear," or "Rods," natoly Fathers Tier- £600,000,000.
Room, when the next meeting of ha replied when asked why he took ney, Hidalgo, Avito and von Arx. It does not mention the Italian Before the War, the economic the Education Society is held. All them away.
Fathers interested are welcome.
Icasaro and Leopoldo," relations between the Republic]
captured at Lichow, Hunan, last November, concerning whose JP- Ica30 no news has been received here as yet.
and Britain were, on the whole, to Suddenly acized with a fit of
Airdale dog bit Mrs. Hunk, wife of
CORRESPONDENCE.
be regarded as satisfactory. Since madness, a three-monthe-old brownMILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS." the War, from a variety of causes, Mr. J. H. Hunt. on the left leg at To the Editor of the "Chino Mail".]
A message from Fathers Nelson the preponderance of imports 3, King's Park-Drive yesterday.
and Tvedt, dated the 11th inst. Sir, I noticed in your yester-states from the United States and Ger. She was taken to the Kowloon
that their health is good many has been very marked. Hospital, whilst the dog was sent to day's issue that the Dairy Farm and that they are still held by
it may be bandits in Anhui-Reuter. British imports have maintained,
Ma Tau Kok for observation.
Company states
that necessary to raise the price of milk, in certain of the older-established A fine of five dollars or ten days and a little further down the lines, an adequate proportion of jail was imposed on five Chinese column decided to give a 10 per the trade. It has been in the newer Crown Land in Kowloon City. In suggest that if they do raise the who wore caught trespassing on cent. bonus to the staff!!! I would lines-motor-cars, wireless and the Police Court this morning, they price, the milk should be sold in 'bottles specially marked "The radio appliances, electrical and pleaded that they were unaware
milk of human kindness." Mr. and Mrs. He Kwong. have agricultural wares - that Bri-that the land was Government pro- pleasure in announcing.. that the tain has lagged.
were clearing a That this is perty, and they marriage of their eldest daughter, merely a temporary condition is
space in order to plant potatoes. Mary, to Mr. Sai-wa Liang, B.A.
ANNOUNCEMENT,
Oxon., will take place on Mon-probably true. But in Britain day, March 30, when a reception crushing, taxation, the absence of will be held at the Roof Garden of tariffs with which to bargain for the Hong Kong Hotel at four o'clock the same afternoon.
are cordially invited to the recep- tion. No cards will be issued.
heavy All friends reciprocity,
pro luction costs and oyorhead charges, and the general uncertainty as to the whole position, have, in the words
the
Yesterday afternoon, at sizes, the Acting Puisne Judge sentence of six years' hard labour (Mr. Justice R. E. Lindsell) passed
Yours, etc.,
P. O. K. FULLEM. Hong Kong. March 19.
TARIFF SCHEDULE.
PROPOSED.
on Fong Ping, charged with as- REVISION OF SCALE IN CHINA
with four persons un- sault, known, on Wong Sik-chuen, a Chin- ese doctor living on the second floor of Go, Laichikok Road, with intent
Hong Kong. Thursday, March 19, 1931- of Sir Charles Bedford, the to rab him.
founder of the Anglo-Spanish In-
DEFICIT OF $143,000,000.
Nanking. Yesterday. Mr. T. V. Soong has submitted
SKUNG TO SCHOOL,
Incessant Snow In..
Switzerland.
Borne, March 10. Not for fifty years has Switzer- land experienced such. Arctic .cold... conditions as at present,
on
It has snowed incessantly since Saturday and the whole country is covered by a phenomenal mantle of snow. Tradesmen in several
aro delivering goods towns skis. Even in the capital there is a depth of three feet of snow and the streets are alive with young- sters skiing to school and busi- ness men skiing to office.
Traffic has almost stopped at Basle and in mountainous areas Lady Peel has consented to par- to the Central Political Council aconditions are much worse. BRITAIN'S CHANCE. stitute, "tended to create a spirit form the opening ceremony of an memorandum proposing a revision
Exhibition in
Two trains have been derailed.
There were no casualties.-Reu-
SUBSIDY FROM MOSCOW.
Allegations Against Certain Swedish Newspapers..
Stockholm, March 11.
of excessive caution which has exhibition at the Po Leung Kuk to of the export tariff schedule. He The British Empire Trade been interpreted in certain quar-morrow at 11 am. when a variety suggests that the old export tariff Owing to the depth of the drifts.
ter Wireless. Buenos Aires, ters as an indication that those of work made by the women in rates collected ad valorem shall re- mates will be on display. The main at 7.5 per cent, but that ex- which the Prince of Wales open- sterling characteristics of enter-foundation stone of the new Po port duties collected according to ed on Sunday,, is a symbol of the prise and energy for which, in the Loung Kuk in Leighton Hill Road quantity shall be increased from
per cent. to 5 per cent. traditional ties of friendship be past, Britain has justly been will be laid by His Excellency the
Governor on Monday at 3 p.m.
The memorandum points out that tween Britain and South America noted, are on the wane."
a deficit of $143,000,000 is expect- which go back well into the last Some British firms-though too
Mr. E: W. Hamilton (as Coroner)ed for the current fiscal year, and century. "The services rendered few at present-are second to sitting with a jury at the Kowloon that urgent mensures will be neces- in the past to the cause of liberty none in the world in matters of Magistracy yesterday afternoon, sary to meet the, financial string- by individual Britons," it has been business activity, ability, and en conducted an inquiry into the death ency. It goes on to state that the arrested in a restaurant here while of a Chinese youth, Kwok Ping, who exlating export schedule was pro- dining with two Russian journal- well said, "are remembered in terprise in Latin-American mar-was knocked down by a moter bus mulgated seventy years ago, and is inta. South America to-day with grati-kets. It is for the benefit of the in Shanghai Street and killed on unsuitable for present conditions; It is alleged that documents found tude and affection; and this large number, especially of small- January 30. The Jury returned a and declares that the increase will in his rooms prestige may without doubt be at- er firms, that one enquires what verdict of "Accidental Death" and be very small and will not have Commanist newspapers in Sweden attached no blame to the driver. any adverse effect on the trade or were subsidisel from Moscow. The tributed to the liberal support may be done to help in the strug-
industry, of. China Reuter...
documents also contained reports on given by British Foreign Minis-gle.
the political situation In Sweden.-
A Gerinan named Kuclh was
show that certain
Ten Years Ago.
[From the "Chion Mall" of March 19, 1921.]
To-day's dollar is worth 2/4d.
* *
Fung Tang, an assistant com- ters to South American countries Unlike the German, the Briton pradore on the, 8.5. Kwong Tung, in the nineteeth cetury, to their in the past has been averse to who with two others, are charged SHIP OVERLOADING, Reuter Wireless.
with breaches of the Opium. statesmanship, and their practical combinations in trade, even with Ordinance, made a further appear- CAPTAIN BOUSFIELD FINED
$200. sympathy with the aims and as other non-competing units in the ance before Mr. Schofield in the Central Police Court yesterday pirations of the South American same line. The report of Lord
afternoon. The first accused was
Captain Bousfield, master of the people."
D'Abernon's Mission to South discharged. The case against the ss. Tal Lee, was ined $200 in the * Besides these historical, senti. America emphasised the great other two was adjourned to next Marine Court this morning for mental ties; a series of economic success that has been achieved week..
overloading his ship at the Ping On Whart at 7p.m. on March 17, links have developed between the there by combinations of British Miss Violet Capell Informs us He pleaded guilty" but sald In consequence of the Chinese South American Republics and firms even in imited trading that the groes takings from the two that during the afternoon of the hotels and restaurants having com Britain. It is no facile truism to spheres. The lack of combination entertainments given in the Theatre day in question he was not on blued in a boycott of the fish deal say that Argentina, for example, among aller British trading Royal on March 4 and 6 amounted board the ship, and the people on guild in order to bring: prea
to $1,591. 15 the meantime she is board took on cargo before burk, |sure to bear in a dispute over® FA- · occupies a position of economic units for the purposes of counterfitrwarding, a draft to the London erlag coal with the result that funds to hotels at the end of each inter-relationship with Britaining the enormous advertising pro Hospital for-610-and is also make when the coaling was completed month, customers at Chinese hotels for which no precise parallel paganda activities of their rivals lng some donations to deserving the vessel was overloaded,
local charities. Miss Capell also In convicting the Hon. Comdr. ekists outside the Empire. Aris striking. gentina's dependence on the Bri Doubtless the British Exhibi wishes to thank all her pupils who G. F. Hale, R.N. (retired), said ab generously contributed toward that as Mr. Bousfeld was the cap Heh consumer and his purchasing tion in Buenca Aires-due very the gift, which, has been presented tain of the boat, he must hold him
responsible. power is absolute. In the case of largely, no doubt, to the initiative to her.
cha have no fish.
Sarg
'Locol' firms and factories that pack stuff for export have been tied up lately by a strike of those who prepare the packing materials.