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RIGAUD, 16 RUE DE LA PAIX, PARIS
NEW "STOCK OF FRENCH PERFUMES. -
"U A EXSAUME"
JUST ARRIVED.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, APRIL 30th, 1928.
"UN AIR EMbaume"
Grand Model.
AGENTS IN HONG KONG:
VICENTE ATIENZA & Co.
No. 54, NATHAN Road, KOWLOON.
TEL. K. 155,
RUBBER EXPORT DUTY.
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REDUCTION CONSIDERED.
[THROUGH EBUTER'S AGENCY.]'
CocoMno, April Sih. The finance committee of the Legislature has decided that further time is needed for consideration of the question of a reduction in the export duty on rubber.
TWO SAILORS INJURED.
MORE EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS.
(THROUGH RETTER'S AGENCY.]
www.
ATENS, April 8th. Two slight shocks were felt at Corinth yesterday and two sailors engaged in demolition work were slightly injured..
WASHINGTON HOURS'
CONVENTION..
MUCH DISCUSSION. AT-
GENEVA.
£300 EXTORTION CHARGE.
SEQUEL TO ARTICLES IN
JOHN BULL."
DOG RACING PROMOTER ATTACKED.
Derby Berry aged 32, described na a canvasser, of Worthing, was charged on remand at Bow-street with attempting to extort £300 from Mr. Harry Heading, a Lon- don company promoter,
It was stated that when arrested outside a tenshop near Leicester- Bare Berry had in his possession a typewritten letter acknowledging the receipt of £300, and adding: "If services are not rendered to your satisfaction £950 will be re- On the letter was turned to you." written in ink: "For the purpose of stopping articles. in John Bull
tacking
H. Hending. D.B.,
Mr. B. 3. Clouttann, prosecut- ing, said last November Mr. Hend. ing was doating the White City Manchester Greyhound Racing As- sociation Company and desired to obtain publicity to assure its suc.
ress.
About this time Berry brought two men, whom he described "as runners," to Mr. Heading's office and in consequence of an arrange ment articles appeared in due course in the Daily Telegraph and
A GOOD COMMENCE-
MENT.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT FOR JANUARY.
REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE,
The Colony commenced the pre- sent year with a balance of, asiets over liabilities of 3,085,701. The revenue during "January ... was" $9,000,601 and the expenditure $1,377,891, leaving a balance of assets on January 31st of 84,705,161,
Land sales during January pro- duced $7,208, Excluding there. the revenue for the meath was $2,050,499 compared with $1,778,003 in January, 1927.
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The expenditure for January, which,
8.3 showa above $1,377,201 compares with an ex- penditure of $1,177,757 in January,
1027.
ARE THERE ANY LETTERS FOR YOU?
UNCLAIMED CORRESPON- DENCE, ETC.. AT
THE G.P.O."
THE OFFICIAL LIST FOR SATURDAY.
A General Post Office notification, issued on Saturday, gives the fol towing particulara with regard to unclaimed correspondence, etc.. waiting at the Post Omer, and
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
GENEVA, April 27th. eleventh Session of the Advisory Committee on Opium has concluded its sittings, and will not parting Life and the company also unclaimed radio telegrams at
The
meet again until January, 1929.
No progress was made at the first public sitting to-day of the Govern ing Body of the International Labour Office which was devoted to consideration of the report of the Standing Orders Committee, shielly concerned with the method of deal- ing with propcasis to revise Con- ventiona
The question arose out of the British Government's proposals for the revision of the Washington Hours' Convention, which the workers' group strenuously oppose. Eventually on the suggestion of the German delegate, the discussion was adjourned until to-morrow...
CANADA'S APPROVAL.
NEW HIGH COMMISSIONER.
was successfully floated..
Berry was paid £350 for the work he had done, and later claim cd a further sum of £250, for which he issued a writ in the New Year. Subsequently Berry offered to settle the claim de payment of £130, but six weeks later the claim was settled on payment of £15 15.
.as costs.
About a week, afterwards Berry telephoned asking, Mr. Heading why he had not paid the £150, and added:
We'll soon pat ar end
to the White City."
"A Stinking Article.” A few days later an article op- peared in John Bull attacking those concerned in the White City pro motion, and about the same time two men described by Berry as his "runners" called on Mr. Hending and made certain proposals About sweek later Berry again spoke to Mr. Hending on the telephone and told him that a sticking article" was being published about him. On March 14th John Bull published a strong personal attack on Mr. Heading, and on the same day he call from received "runners."
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of the
the Radio Telegraph Office, Goy ernment Building:
Poste Restante Correspondence. H. Ains, Manager (Bank DI Chosen), ndam Beauville, Mr. W. Dould, Crossley, Ltd. Rev. W. M. Campbell, Miss Lillian Chang, Mig M. E. Chapman, Capt. E. Cattle Fraser, Mr. Fitz-Henry, Edward (H.M.S. Hawk), E. Constance, D. Ford, Gurtierrez Noma & Co... Gillespie & Sons, Hopkins, Daan & Co., J. Haywood, Dr. Hie Ding Ling (e/o Red Crosa), Miss Ho Mei Ho, C. L. Ivanoff, John Jose, Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Kolliner, R. Kitain, Manger (Kein Sai Tein. Express office of Wuchow), S. Lord, Miss Florence Lyen, W. E. Mar riott, L. Mclean. T. H. Morrison (Morrison Motors), A. C. Mont- gomery, W. H. Pashley, H. Pam- panga, S. Pampanga, A. Petroff, Ritchie & Co., H. J. Rennika (Hotel Belfonte), M. A. Sofaer, Prof. J. W. N. Smith, Mr. and Mrs.. Turner (c/o Mr. T. M. M. Tumer), M. Tremboff, B. Zipper.
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Unpaid Correspondence. W. Campbell, Mrs J. D. Pugh H.K. Hotel), Miss E. Pye, Stilley (c/o H.K. Hotel).
Registered Articles,
{SKITIAN WIDELISH SERVICE].
Recer, April 27th. The Secretary for the Dominions has received a telegram from the Secretary for External Affairs in Canada, expressing great pleasure at the appointment of Sir William
This was serious that Mr. (c/o Clark as High Commissioner Canada for His Majesty's Govern- Heading issued a writ for libel E.
against John Bull. Afterwards ment in Great Britain and adding Mr. Hending met Berry on two oc Bank of Chosen, G. E. Dares, G. "We have every confidence that the
easion when the latter repeated Fantaellaz, K. I. Kitain, Lim Kim stop will prove of marked advan-his offer to stop this adverse Chi, W. B. Lunnon (s.s. Glenheath), tage in facilitating communication publicity on payment of a large Misses B. and R. Moroukian, F.
co-operation and
between His Majesty's Governments in Great backed up by a threat of further chic & Co., C. Ramson, C. Tang, sum of money. These offers were H. Moring, Nguyen-Van-Tri, Rit- Britain and Canada.
publicity if the money was not B, Zipper. paid, and having obtained from Berry a written confirmation of these offers Mr. Heading informed the police.
"BREMEN" FLIERS IN
NEW YORK.
SECRET ARRIVAL.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE}
NEW YORK, April 27th.. The Transatlantic fliers, Captain Kochl, Baron Von Huchnefeld and
Fitzmaurice Colonel
landed Curtiss Fields, New York, to-day, taking the city by surprise.
Their arrival was entirely unex- pected, hence, apart from a few reporters, the aerodrome was de Berted.
Int
It is believed the airman's plan was kept secret to avoid the gather ing of an unmanageable crowd.
ស្ករ
* L.M.S. ACHIEVEMENT.
TWO RECORD NON-STOP RUNS.
(THIQUGH REUTER'S 'ASENCY.]
LONDON, April 7th.
This case is a typical example, continued Mr. Cloutman, "of how
UNCLAIMED RADIO
TELEGRAMS.
address.
From.
Cholon. Cholon. Tehekam.
an unscrupulous person can make Scribes use of the sort of attacks in which Seribes papers of the type of John Bull Tscannen specialise. It is clear that matter Teaset of that kind lends itself to these Margot attacks."
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White City Attack. Mr. Heading, giving evidence. said he was a director of private companies, and lived at Cumber. land-mansions, Upper George. street, Bryanston-square, W. first met Berry in November with reference to newspaper publicity for the Manchester White City Association. Greyhound Racing He said he sub-edited articias for "Sporting Life and John Bull, and
had been employed for many 724
Mr. Cloutman He did write some articles?-Yes, in the Sport ing Life and the Daily Telegraph.
Mr. "Hending said that after Berry's claim for £250 was settler, Odhama own and publish that Berry telephone to him and said, "You did not pay that £180. Well, Paper" and he (Mr. Heading) asked: "What is the very best you buy John Bull on Wednesday.
Berry added:
you
Vancouver, B.C.
You know
Two runs from London to Beat
can do ?!! Berry replied: and by Royal Scot expresses, We are making an attack on the £500 would be cheap," and added belonging to the London, Midland White City issue." The attack up that the paper was going to press and Scottish Railway, travelling peared in the next issue of the that night, but there would be a from Euston Station to Edinburgh paper.
further "stinking article " in the and Glasgow respectively, a dis-
The next week Berry asked over next issue. tance of 400 miles, created a world the telephone,What do you know Berry declared that if he received non-stop passenger-train record..
about the Metropolitan Housing £300 the article would not appeari
"We Both arrived in a trifle over eight Company" and added:
and no further attacks would be hours and carried spare drivers and have not finished with the Gardner made in John Bull. firemen who changed duty en route. case. He also referred to another
When asked what guarantee thera case known as The Brick Company, was that these articles would be And then said: “We are going stopped, Berry retorted:
"You to print a stinking article in our must take my word for it, or, if next issue. If you will square me you like, I will deposit the money no further articles will appear. in a bank”. When asked why he I repeated," declared Mr. wanted so much as 2000, Berry re Heading, what I had said preplied: "I must pay away at least viously. I referred to John Bull as a blackmailing paper and would have nothing to do with it."
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GENEVA. The death at the isolation hospi-
When it was suggested to Berry tal at Brigue of the last of three
that the arrangement should be lepers recalls a mystery which Swiss The following week another ar put into writing, Berry replied: scientists have never been able to cle appeared in John Bull, and I am too old a bird to do that. explain.
soon after one of Berry's runners That is criminal. I don't want
him: According to the account publish- Fenlled on
seven years." ied in a Geneva newspaper, the It was agreed that they should After making an appointment to disease could not have been con- meet at a teashop, and when he armeet Berry, said Mr. Heading, he tracted by contact with infected rived Berry said: "You have went to the police. persons, as the three men never left been very foolish. If you had At the corner of Long-acre ha Twenty-six persons appeared at their native village.
settled with me you would have met Berry, who told him that if the 10th Correctional Court to an The medical theory is that leprosy saved all this publicity." He (Mr. he would guarantee that the cheque aver charge of trafficking in narco- once existed in the remote Alpine Heading) replied: "Tell me on would be paid the article that week tics, granting or dispensing illegal hamlet where, they lived and that the level what can you do!" Berry would be stopped: "If you do prescriptions, or of being habitual the last vestiges of the disense must replied: "I have satisfied you in not pay, I shall be very vindictive have remained in existence for the past." many years pasuspected.
(Continued on next Volumn.)
towards you," "Berry added. The cast was adjourned.
drug-takere.
It has taken four years to com- plete the investigation of these
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cases, and there were five huge piles of dossiers on the judge's table, can- fewer than 13,000 faining no doctors prescriptions which have been impounded.
Of the accused 10 are physicians, surgeons, and 6 chemists. Tha allegation against the medical men is that they have aided and abetted drug addicts to obtain narcotics and illegal prescriptions.
It is expected that the trial will last several days owing to the huge amount of evidence to be heard.