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Hong Kong, Thursday, June 8, 1932.
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GIRL SEES MOTHER MURDERED.
ten
New Territories Crime.
ROBBER STEALS $400.
A girl, named 'Lok Lui-kau, aged
years, alone witnessed the
THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1932.
Import and Export.
Revenue
Net Total of $9,226,444.03 Collected in 1931
gruesome murder of her mother INCREASES SHOWN IN DUTY ON
Tang Lin, aged 41 years, in a
hamlet in Wong Yak Village in' Au Tau district, New Ter- ritories, in the early hours of this morning.
The crime, according to the girl,
was perpetrated by two unknown
Chinese men, of whom she was un- able to give a full description. She asserts that either a chopper or a knife was used by the men.
After ransacking the premises, the
intruders escaped in an
unknown
direction, and are still at large.
They stole $400 in bank notes.
Girl Terrorised.
the
The girl, in her report to Police, at Au Tau, stated that short ly after two o'clock, whilst asleep with her mother on a wooden-bed in a rear cubicle of 82 Wong Yuk
She
LIQUOR, TOBACCO & OPIUM
Net revenue totalling $9,226,444.03, derived from four sources, is returned by the Superinten- dent of Imports and Exports in his report for the year 1931,
Of the revenue from liquor, $1,015,873.16 was derived from duty collected on imported European type liquor.
Substantial increases in revenue are shown under the heads of Liquor, Tobacco and Opium, while the collection on Motor Spirit remain steady.
Liquor,
The net revenue collected
than in 1930. There was a great Was déal of smuggling of Chinese made Village, she was suddenly awakened $2,418,898.94 as compared with tobacco, and seizures increased con- siderably. A large amount of this $1,689,948.52 for 1930. The in- smuggling was across the Sham
not shout for asistance.
.
saw
The prices of prepared oplum
by some disturbance. Itwo men struggling with her,
mother, who fell to the ground and crease to a great extent was due to Shun River into the New Terri- lay moaning. She died soon after. duty on imported liquor being col- tories, and many seizures were made The men did not speak to the girl,lected on a sterling basis, the dollar there by the Police. The local who, terrorised with fright, dared, being taken as equivalent to ane cigarette factories were fully em-
shilling and eight pence, and the ployed. Box Broken Open. jactual amount of duty payable in
Motor Spirit. She saw one of them break open local currency varying with a factor
The collection on motor spirit re- a box with a chopper and take a which was altered from time to time mained steady at $425,358.95. The smaller casket, which contained as the sterling market rate of the duty was increased by ten cents per money and other valuables..
They dollar fell or rose. The rebate of gallon in September. The installa- on Chinese, tion of the Texas Oil Co. at Tsun proceeded to ransack the hut, after, ten cents per gallon which they fled.
spirit locally distilled was with-
Wan was completed during the year. areas at least, but, no matter what
Oplum. When they had gone, she ran out drawn. The number of gallons of She met a Chinese spirit paying duty increas- the extent of their military aggres-and shouted "Ah ma." alon they will be unable to establish fellow-countryman, Lok Pak-ling, toed by 124,000.
were slightly increased in February whom she related what had happen-
Tobacco.
to compensate partially for the fall any permament stability and the ed. Her grand-mother, living about Duties collected amounted to in exchange, and the price of danger of fresh revolts will retard 30 yards from the scene of the $3,364,522.18 net ag against $2,620,- Kamshan opium was again raised
and they were 074.17 net for last year. the development and progress of the crime, also came,
No true towards the end of the year. As
country.
The Soviet threat per later joined by the girl's uncle, comparison can however be made, was anticipated sales decreased, but
Lok Kam-qui.
because the collection of duties was, less than might have been expected, sists and the rumours that the anti- The uncle and Lok Pok-ling to placed on a sterling basis in Feb- and the net financial result was The warning issued by Dr. Manchukuo troops are being aup-gether went to the Au Tau Police ruary, and the duties themselves $8,019,724.02 83 compared with Wellington Koo that war not only plied with Russian munitions have Station, and reported the affair.
were raised in September, after $2,885,286.90 In 1930. in the Far East but a world war is not been disproved. Whether they Police officers arrived on the scene, having been lowered on the introSources of Illicit Opium. (A) and were bugily engaged in taking duction of the sterling basis of col- Prepared Opium-Macao remained imminent cannot be disregarded as lack foundation or not is immaterial)
statements. The body was later lection. Considering that the the chief source from which pre- a merely alarmist statement and his to the issue as the Soviet interest removed to the Kowloon Mortuary prices were greatly advanced owing pared opium was smuggled into the declaration is timely in view of the in Manchuria is too well-known to
Description of Men.
to the fall in exchange, the collec-Colony, supplying 61 per cent, out decreasing interest in Manchuria need verification. Japan has The girl's description of the two tion must be considered most satis of the total seized. With one ex- consequent upon the settlement at long road ahead in its annexation of men, which she gave to the Police, factory; the weights on which duty ception this was all of the Red
Is that the first man's face was pox was paid being only slightly less' Lion brand. Shanghai and the slackening of sen- Manchukuo, and may find the marked, and he was dressed in black sational news, from the new "puppet League less impotent than generally clothing. The second man wore
Return of Liquor Duty Cellected During the Year 1931. a white pair state."
The tension in the Far thought when the Lytton Commis-ja white singlet and
European Type Liquor. SMOKING JACKETS, PEKING JEWELLERY,East has to a large extent béension's report is finally compiled. lessened by the Japanese withdrawal American opposition will not be and RUGS.
from Shanghai but the position in lightly treated and the United Manchuria is still fraught with States has intimated that its or- dangerous possibilities. The Lytton iginal stand-that it will not extend Commission has just returned from recognition to the new State will be a long survey of conditions in the maintained.. new State but the report will not! reach Geneva until the end of the summer. In the meantime thei League can do little unless any freshi crisis occurs. What news does'
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LAND OFFICER'S REPORT.
TRANSACTIONS FOR 1931 AMOUNT TO $137,746,898.57.
$137,746,898.57,
The report is as follows:
Registration.
The report of the Land Officer for the year 1981 shows that the Quarantine restrictions - have total of land transactions register issue from Manchuria, although not been imposed against arrivals fromed at the Land Office amounted to as sensational as formerly is dis-Shanghai on account of Cholera. turbing and it is evident that grave]
Suffering from food poisoning, international complications may two Chinese, Leung Choi, a inale, occur at any moment. Banditry is and Leung Chui-tai, a female, both During the year 6,181 Instru- continuing on a large scale, and in living at 5, Kimberly Road, were ments were registered under the many parts of the country terrorism, admitted to the Kwong Wah Hos-provisions of Ordinance No. 1 of prevails, with unruly bands of rufis not regarded as serious.
[pital last night. Their condition 1844,-an increase of 664 on the
preceding year. |flans aubjecting the peasants to all
The total number of instruments
*
•
the horrors of war. The Japanese Graduation Day for pupils of the registered under the provisions of Chun-Shing Typewriting School. the abovementioned Ordinance trumps are driving against the in-will be celebrated at Messrs. Lane, (since 1844) to the end of the year surgents and now that the matter Crawford's restaurant on Saturday 1981 was 129,074.
ig engaging the full attention of next, at 4 p.m. The Hon. S. W. The total consideration on sales, Tokyo the offensives are developing Ts'o will be present to distribute mortgages, surrenders and miscel- into large-scale movemente.. Ac-the prizes and certificates.
laneous land transactions registered ing, the Land Office amounted to cording to the reporta, most of During this fortnight a number $137,746,898.57. which are of Japanese origin, the of very interesting lectures... on
Crown Leases. "rebela" have been inflicted with health matters will be delivered by 517 Crown Leases were frsued
Rum
Class of Liquor.
Amount of Duty
Gallons.
collected.
. cts.
Ale, Beer, Cider and Stout Brandy
336,580
805.880.77
11,921
108,898.09
Whisky
22,782:
212,771,58
Gin' and 'Cocktail
18,287
123,492.67 ·
· 1,817
16,615.70
Champagne and Sparkling Wine Claret
3,208
'50,515.23.
2,872
13,821.21...
5,356
32,060.31
Sherry, Madeira and Malaga Vermouth
2,219
18,583.75
.4,881
22,360.03
1,870
29,504.04
2,705
43,256.93
Spirituous Liquor
1.385
21,406,84
4,962
22,662.77
Difference on over-proof,.
fractions and arrears of duty
*48.33°
Total
415,775
81,015,873.16
Port Wine
Liqueur
Spirits of Wine-
. Miscellaneous
Note: Fractions of a galion are not shown in this Table.
41 More Marriages In 1931
228 CEREMONIES IN COLONY
many defeats, which oven If ex-some of the local Chinese medical during the year, agar ase of brated in the Colony, according to the annual re-
Fees
aggerated are mostly authentic. Chinese Y.M.C.A. Commencing 854.
men under the auspicles of the the previous year a decrease This is not surprising in view of this evening at 8 p.m. Dr. Li Shu- the superior military equipment and fan will speak on "Public Health organization of the invaders. The Measures and the People of Hong Japanese are becoming so firmly
Kong entrenched that they
make now {scarcely-no effort to cloak their con- trol of the Manchukuo. The recent decree that Chinese not born in Manchuria will be treated as for- eigners, is not only imp
is also illegal and
CURIOUS STORY FROM AMERICA
Faris May 24 New York: In spite of it being den
the White House,; the Herald insists that President, edfetatorship
During the year 1931 228 marriages were cele-
port of the Registrar of Marriages, which is as follows:-
given in Table L
Feek.
The total amount of fees collected
Marriages, (exclusive of the New Territories) Amounted to $118,598.00 being an The number of Marriages- celer
The total amount of Fees received. increase of $1,748.25 on the preced-brated in the Colony during the year ing year. was 228 (of which 104 were between under the Second Schedule of the Land Registration Fees in the Chinese persons) as compared with Marriage Ordinance, 1875, was New Territories amounted to 187 (and 85) respectively in 1980 $2,705 as compared with: $2,059.00 $8,467.50 and Crown Lease Fees to an increase of 41 Particulars are in 1980-an increase of 3846.00. 890.00.
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