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STAMPING OUT CATTLE PLAGUE IN ENGLAND
EVENINGS: 20c-30c.-50c.-70c.
A standstill order for British
SWITZERLAND AND ABYSSINIA
Berne, To-day...
requests settle in
LABOUR NOT OPPOSING
COAL BILL
THE CHINA MATE, APRIL 6, 1938.
London, To-day.
TORTOSA FALL REPORTS PREMATURE
Saragossa, To-day. Insurgent operations yesterday were confined to the province of the Government's main legislative Tarragona, where the troops are
The Coal Bill, which is one of
measures of the session, was moved making a final sport to achieve for the third reading in the Com-Catalonia from the rest of Spain. the major objective of cutting off mons yesterday by the Secretary General Valino's troops were for Mines, Captain Cruikshank, be- within firing distance of the coastal fore going to the House of Lords town of Tortosa at noon, but have not yet entered the town, and pre- later in the week.
vious reports of its capture are The measure deals comprehensive premature.
ly with the interests of the present Insurgent planes are having owners of coal, colliery owners, field day, and are raking the workers and the community at large. Government troops with their
Captain Cruikshank said this was machine-guns without any reply.— the 15th day of the bill and no Trans-Ocean. motion was down for its rejection. He took it that even if the Bill had not got the good will of all the House it at any rate had their benevolent neutrality. While the Bill was before Parliament, the re- gistration of properties was pro- ceeding.
Up to the present 17,105 applica- tions had been received.
LABOUR'S VIEW
HEALTH OF SCHUSCHNIGG
Vienna, To-day.
The daily enquiries made by Trans-Ocean regarding ex-Chan- yesterday, The Labour member, Mr. Shin- cellor Schuschnigg well, said the Opposition would not elicited the reply that there is no vote against the third reading of change in his health. the bill. They accepted anything. There are no military or police conducive to the interests of the guards in uniform round his fiat, it mine workers and for thaf reason was stated.
Dr. Schuschingg, it is stated, is allowed to receive letters and lis-
Dr. Schuschnigg's son at present
they accepted the Bill with all its defects and practical difficulties in the hope that the Government and tens in at the radio. Commission and coal owners would try and make the best of it in the in Kalksburg, will probably spend the Easter holidays in Vienna, with interests of the workers and the na-
his fatherTrans-Ocean. tion as a whole. -- British Wireless.
SOVIET OFFICIAL WHOLESALE
DISMISSED
Moscow, To-day.
The Soviet Commissar for Traffic, M. Bakulin, who was only recently appointed, has been relieved of his
FORGERIES
ALLEGED
duties, says an official communique. Li Koon, unemployed, was this The post thus vacated will be morning charged with possession occupied by the former Traffic of forged banknotes at Gloucester Commissar and later Commissar Road, yesterday.
for Heavy Industries, M. Kagano- When arrested he had in his witch, who will hold both offices possession, four $500 banknotes of simultaneously. Trans-Ocean. the Hong Kong Bank, three $50 notes and one $100 of the same bank and three $50- banknotes of Bank.
At his residence, at No. 29, Peel Street, several forged banknotes of the Central Bank and the Canton Municipal Banks were found.
CHARGED WITH the Chartered
ILL-TREATMENT Wong Yee-mul, was this morning
charged before Mr. H. P. Butters at the Central Magistracy with ill- treating her nephew, aged 7, at No.. 12 Shek Kui Lane.
charcoal
been
SMALLPOX UNDIMINISHED
There were 112 deaths `and
-Inspector Fraser said that as the The Italian Government will give result of a complaint, he saw the
had child, an orphan, who special consideration to
with her for the past four years. It London, To-day. from Swiss citizens to
bore marks of a caning all over the total of 162 notified cases of small- cattle and other animals extending Abyssinia, said the Swiss political body and the cheeks and head had pox in Hong Kong in the week end-
been burned by matches and ing April 2.
Eight-six deaths occurred in Vic- Switzerland will also be given The defendant was remanded for toria, 67 in Kowloon, four in the special preferences in supplying 24 hours on bail of $2,500 for equipment and provisions to Abys-¡medical officer's certificate. Though this method of fighting sinia if these cannot be obtained the disease is very costly it is in Italy. thought scientifically and practi- cally to be the most effective way
fighting the plague.
over almost the whole country, ex-department yesterday. cept the extreme North and West, represents part of a great effort to stamp out plague finally.
The Swiss road construction.com- pany which formerly had large concessions from Empe The new standstill is the biggest | Haile Selassie, has been told which the Agriculture Ministry Italy will de all possible to has ever ordered, and affects near the concessions. Trans-Ocean- ly 25,000,000 cattle, sheep and pigs, |--
press reports estimate.
The new State Veterinary Ser- Mrs. Seth of "Deepene, "-- vice has
come into operation to Water Bay, has reported that help in the efforts British Wire-lone attempted to enter her
ast night but was distur
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Harbour, two in Shaukiwan; two in Aberdeen and one in the New I ritories.
Deaths from tuberculosis during the week totalled 108.
The daily amalipor
incidence
Mr. Simpson, captain of the Ho has reported that while at As three unknown Chinese
gside and by some means showed an increase in the last 24 the boat, and stole 75 hours, when 31 cases were reported. of rope valued at $300. Twenty-one were:
admitted
loon Hospital yesterday
ten in Kowloon.c
Astoria,
Mr. A. Dunnett of No. 3, Minden mission. The Avenue, has reported that someone pond at the entered the above, address and and Boundary stole money, a fountain pen and a
jacket valued at $54.