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'MURDER HEARING. IS ADJOURNED.
Chinese Charged With
Fatal Stabbing.
Kaap-ting, leather-maker's, apprentice, was arraigned on a murder charge at Central Magia- tracy yesterday afternoon.
The tragedy in a flat in Tung Lo Wan Road, Causeway Bay district, where a Chinese boy of 15 was stabbed to death during a struggle with an intruder, and the stabbing of four other inmates of the fat, was recalled in the Central Magis tracy. Li is charged with the crime.
In a statement to the Police the prisoner is said to have ad- mitted the crime and to have de- clared that his motive in making i the visit was robbery, in order to repay a pressing creditor...
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1932.
Canada-U.S. Plans For Waterway
Immense Project For The Future
COST TO BE BILLION
MILES OF LAKE AND RIVER TO BE NAVIGABLE.
By R. L. DUFFUS.
The announcement that the required. Before it can be fully. United States and Canada have realized, four major steps must be
In his outline for, the Crown, agreed upon the outline of a treaty, taken: Mr. R. E. Lindsell (Assistant At-to be signed "at an early date," 1. The United States and Canada torney General) said that the governing the improvement of the must ratify the treaty-the out- screeching of a parrot ushered in St. Lawrence-Great Lakes Water-line of which the two governments the tragedy. After the appearance way has brought again into the have just concluded-settling all of an amah, the intruder appeared public eye one of the most intricate questions of power and navigation to go mad, and slashed about wild problems which has ever arisen in in which international rights are ly with a sharp instrument. The North America in connection with involved. This will bring to an end accused jumped from the veran the utilization of a natural re-an effort at settlement which has dah, and was arrested the following Jaource.
been going forward at intervals for night about four doors away. He Navigation facilities, the possibile thirty years. was injured and was taken to the Ry of an immense power develop! 2. The State of New York and Government Civil Hospital.
ment, the respective interests
of the Federal Government must come After evidence was taken the Canada and the United States, to an agreement, adjusting their re- hearing was adjourned,
rivairles among States, Prospective rights in the two
felda vinces and ports, friction be- of power and navigation, and ap-
and central gov-portioning construction coata.
PLAN FOR KOWLOON MAGISTRACY.
Fine Building For
Court Use.
41
tween local ernments 'and' the issue of 3. The Dominion Government of
private versus public develop-Canada must complete agreements ment of power have all entered in-with the Province of Ontario, in to the situation." The controversy whose territory the proposed power between the State of New York and development on the Canadian side the Federal Government, which had will be located, and with the Frov- a climax in President Hoover's re-ince of Quebec, which is concerned fusal to confer with Governor Roo, with its own power enterprises and The China Mail, States which was singularly un- voted for at the recent Budget the treaty, is only one dramatic element of the St. Lawrence-Great sevelt prior to the completion of with the maintenance and improve- helpful to the cause of peace meeting of the Legislative Councilment in a, vast project or series of Lakes Waterway. In both cases Hong Kong. Tuesday, Sept. 27, 1932. They agreed to a cessation of hos-was the construction of a new projects which is monumental in its understandings, appear to
tilities on the basis of the reten-Magistracy in. Kowloon. A sum of scope and possibilities.
South American
Troubles.
The
nitral
One of the tentative measures
$120,000 was asked.
ministrative staff.
River an
have
been reached, except for technical tion of the present positions-in
Objectives of the Plan, details. The old Yaumati Police Station other words, of the forts or block is at present serving the needs of led. is to
In brief, the undertaking involv.
Another Angle. open the Great 4. Assuming that the State of houses which their troops had cap the Kowloon public, but it is Lakes to sea-going cargo vessels, New York adjusts its difficulties. tured in recent encounters They wholly inadequate, being too small. adding in effect thousands of with the Federal Government, it
The new building, as outlined in milesto No continent has suffered more have now opened negotiations for the plan presented to the Council, the United States. and
the sea-coast of must contract with private power at the interests for the sale of its power heavily from the general economic a settlement by arbitration. Their will be three storeys in height and same time to develop on the St. from the St. Lawrence, or, failing and financial crisis than South Legation in. Loudon issued a state- will contain in addition to the two Lawrence
amount of that, must arrange to distribute the América, and it is therefore the ment laying stress on their alleged large court rooms, a juvenile court, power equal to half that now used power itself. If the latter policy
waiting rooms, stores for records, by domestic consumers in less surprising that political dis title to "the territorial sovereignty cells and detention rooms, quarters country. More than 1,200 miles of sary to enable municipalities to go this is adopted legislation will be 'neces- turbances have been violent and of the whole Gran Chaco region" for messengers, Magistrate's interior waterways will be made into the business of power distri- widespread in the Latin Republics and denying that their claims are Chambers, Solicitors' rooms and accessible between Montreal' and bution for themselves and to create this Spring and Summer. Chile limited to the right of access to office accommodation for the ad-Chicago. The cost for deepening power districts or farmers' co- of channels, building of locks and operatives to purchase current for has seen a revolation followed by the Atlantic by a port on the
The whole top door, will be a canals and construction of power rural use. It is theoretically pos- a counter-revolution, and, although Paraguay River.
European flat, suitable for the plants will run close to $800,000,- sible, to build the New York power Magistrate.
000, or nearly three times as much plants without such an arrange- defeated, the
as the cost of the Panama Canal; ment made in advance, but it would outbreak recent
of this sum a large part has al-not be possible to finance them. among the students of the Univervation, will hardly relish the
ready been expended on naviga The element of power and navi❤ sity of Santiago and the financial latest affirmation of their claims.
tion work. Additional, expendi- gation are both Involved in A rebellion, first described by the While painting a room in the tures of interior cities for port im- all these adjustments. They Federal Government as a seces-
Hotel Cecil yesterday, Wong Yee-ho provements may well bring the are interwoven in all the engineer- Minister of Finance to resign sug- sionist movement on the part of the (24), a painter. accidentally fell grand total to more than $1,000,- ing, economic and political discus- gest that the country has not seen State of Sao Paulo, seems likely to his body.
from a ladder, sustaining injuries to 1000,000. the end of its troubles. The Gov-nvolve other: States in Southern hospital. ernment of Peru has defeated a Brazil, where the administration of Communist rebellion waged with: horrid savagery;" and there have been mutinies in Ecuador. A civil
lextremely unpopular. His enemies Station was rescued by Police: Con- war, only partially obscured by accuse him of an excessive depen-stable Cheung Fung-cheung, and the sensorship imposed by the dence on his military supporters, sent to the Government Civil Hos- military supporters of President They allege that far too many pital.
the Communist faction has been Powers, which showed no readi-
difficulties which have led the
ness to accept their earlier reser-
the
News in Brief.
Не was sent to the
sions of the question. However, as Four Steps Needed.
their purposes and interests are dis- For this gigantic undertaking tinct, they may be considered from seven to eight years, will be separately.
A Chinese woman who attempted Provisional President, Dr. Getulio Vargas, has become to commit suicide by jumping into JAPAN RUNS GRAVE A FLOATING DEPOT
;
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RISK, PARIS HINTS.
Recognition Of Puppet State Criticised.
Vargas, is raging in Southern officers have been rewarded for Kong Ho-man, who appeared be Brazil. The relations between
their services in the Revolution of fore Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Central Bolivia and Paraguay are a bad
1930 by promotion to higher tempor-sentenced to six weeks' hard labour Police Court this morning was
Paris, To-day." as they could be short of a for-
ary rank and by the gift of admini- for the theft of four opium pipes, cognition of the new Manchurian Commenting on Japan's re- mal declaration of war. Fortun-
strative posts for which they are un-valued at $20, the property of Ng state, "Le ately there are bright, political
fitted by training and experience; Chen... spota in the prevailing gloom. General Gomez, the virtual Dicta-that the censorship of the Press and tor of Venezuela, has his enemies, other restrictions on public libera
Temps" expresses
FOR OCEAN LINES.
Germany Experiments With Old Steamer,
ATLANTIC FLYING ROUTE.
Berlin, Sept. 15. The old plan to establish a Boat- fears lest the Japanese actioning "depot" with repair shops and might lead to serious complica- refueling facilities in the Southern A returned banishee, charged in tions. One might argue, the Atlantic to promote the air service the Central Folice Court this morn-paper declares about the advis between Europe and South America, but the country le enjoying in-ties have been carried to absurd ing with the theft of a singlet, was ability of recognising such a state taken up again by the Lufthansa, ternal peace, as is the Republic of lengths by the Federal authorities; sentenced to 10 months' hard labour but to conclude an alliance with Germany's foremost air service and they demand that the present for returning from banishment and it when its existence has not yet company, has just entered the stage. Columbia. Argentina has return- od t
to constitutionalism and is ous economic and financial troubles,
Dictatorship be abolished. The seri-n additional six weeks hard labour been acknowledged by any other of practical experiments.
for larceny.
Power, is another matter and engines of the Lufthansa have in making a gallant fight against her of the country have no doubt given
scoms to affect the equality of their preliminary tests overcome the financial and economic difficulties; an edge to criticisms of the Federal, The Indian Chief Warder and rights of the Powers in the Far difficulties: Inherent in what was and the formal rupture of her Government, but there can be littlement are giving a farewell tea-party status quo. The paper concludes The 5,000 tons steamer" "West
Indian staff of the Prisons Depart- East as well as the political hitherto regarded as a dream. doubt that the continued suspension diplomatic relations with Uruguay of the Constitution has irritated, im- In Mesars, Lane, Crawford's restau- that Japan is running the risk of talen" of the North-German Lloyds has not strained the friendly re-portant elements in the Southern Chief Warder TC West, who is relicate position so far as the After an alteration of her super Irant to-morrow, at 5.15 p.m., to putting herself into a very de has been chartered for this purpose. lations between the peoples of the States of Brazil
two Republics. Even in some of the less tranquil States Communist propaganda, which had aroused a brief slazzo in liberal Uruguay, seems, as knowledge grows, to be
losing some of ite
of its appeal to the
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meritorious service. Yet
-Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.:
WARDER RETIRING.
special apparatus, experiments are now being made in the North Bea where seaplanes are being "taken" aboard and then shot off again with catapult. If the experiments
Severe scalda were sustained by: Leung Ping, an employee of the Nam Hing Knitting Factory, 88,
Mr. Charles James West, Chlef prove successful, the Westfalen" Tung Chot Street, Mongkok district, who accidentally fell into a boiler Warder, Victoria Gaol, is retiring early, next year will be anchored masses. Still, after enumerating
containing hot water. He was sent on pension after, 27 years of meri somewhere in the Southern Atlantic these evidences of improvement or
to the Kwong Wah Hospital in a torious service in the Prisons De- and a regular ocean air service will, A Hong Kong to London service serious condition stability in the condition of severa in 22 days will be inaugurated with Bouth American States, the friend the arrival of the liner
Verde. One case of) Istine Americas on Octo
jobserver
fra musi
bark back
the Gran
only notifiable dis the health retu
partment., "Appointed a Warder in be inaugurated. Trans-Ocean. Kuo June 1906, Mr. West to prin- MinJEMAN
the cipal Warder in 191
on pointed to his pre
rank
Chief Ward
Lapha.