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THE CHINA MAIL FERUARY
1939
K.C.C. INCIDENT HUGE CHINESE
SEQUEL
ORDER FOR
LANCASHIRE
A Chinese spectator of tennis at the Kowloon Cricket Club yesterday afternoon, took the op
London, To-day. portunity of stealing a handbag
Cloth contracts totalling which was laid on the ground
|20,000,000 yards, and valued at near the embankment.
He started away on a bicycle but between £500,000 and £750,000, was chased by two K.C.C. boys who are the subject of negotiations between Lacashire cotton inter- arrested him.
The handbag was the property of ests and a leading Manchester Mrs. A. Holthe, of No. 184, Austin firm of Far Eastern shippers and Avenue, who left it on the ground merchants acting on behalf of while playing. The bag, with its the Chinese Government.
to this contents was valued at $90,50,
An announcement At the Kowloon Magistracy, this effect in "The Times" this morn- morning. Chung Cheung, 27, was ing says it is understood the... charged before Mr. Q. A. A. Mac-order will be in drills and other fadyen and sentenced to three similar fabrics for army pur- months' hard labour.
The boys who arrested defendant, were commended by the Magistrate.
MEASLES AND MENINGITIS OUTBREAKS
poses.
When the contracts are finally placed the total amourt will ac- tually be larger than the whole of Lancashire's cloth exports to China in the last four years. Reuter.
Sixty-three cases of measles, ITALIAN FORCE
.
the
and thirty deaths from epidemic, were notified to the Medi- cal Department last week.
IN EAST AFRICA
There were also 27. meningitis
London, To-day.": cases, with 15 deaths, seven small-
Aswering various questions in pox, with five deaths, eight diph- theria, with three deaths, thirteen the House of Commons yesterday, typhoid, with four deaths, and Mr. R. A. `Butler declared that, ac- nineteen chickenpox, with one cording to information received by death.
the British Government, the num
The tuberculosis returns show-ber of Italian troops stationed in ed 67 reported cases in Victoria, Italian East Africa, including. Ita- 55-in Kowloon, cix at Shaukiwan, lian Somaliland and Eritrea, have nine in the New Territories and been increased since 1938 to 69,654 three in the harbour, making a total of 140. Eighty deaths were included.
Yesterday's returns showed 45 t.b. cases, including 83 from Vic- toria, thirteen measles, nine in Victoria and four in Kowloon, two smallpox, two diphtheria, three typhoid, six chickenpox and two meningitis.
DUTCH GUIANA. HOME FOR JEWS?
London, To-day.
Trans-Ocean.
MUSEUM YOU CAN NEVER SEE
The Royal "sporting museum" at Sandringham has been rearranged, under the personal supervision of the King.
Housed in an outbuilding, the museum, which is open only to members of the Royal Family and guests at Sandringham, was thirty years old Inst. year.
A Dutch delegation will shortly leave for Dutch Guiana în order to study the possibilities for settling It was started by King Edward Jewish refugees in Guiana, accord- VII, and many Royal sportsmen
have contributed exhibits. ing to a statement by Mr. R. A. Butler, in the House of Commons.
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They include "skins of lions shot by the Queen and by the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and favourite exhibit with the King the first salmon he ever caught in the Dee.
U.S. PIGEONS CARRY DOPE
The President of the Syrian Re- public yesterday asked Mustafa Barmada, President of the Supreme Court, to form a new Cabinet.
Barmada who belongs to no po- litical party can count on the sup-
When there is a futter in the port of Dr. Shabander's National dovecotes in America these days, it Bloc and has accepted on the con- dition that all parties agree to his nomination Trans-Ocean.
DANCING IN 6 HOURS
probably means that antidope police are on the trail. Drugtraffickers are using carrier-pigeons to carry their wares, and warn their confederates of danger.
An illicit cargo of dope worth, hundreds of pounds can be carried by a small flock of homing birds: Be Rapid easy lessons, ginnoram A speciality much more swiftly and safely than the person of a Advanced courses. Mo concealed about
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