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The
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14th, 1929.
OPIUM TRAFFIC IN BRITAIN.
CHINESE CHANGED AT CARDIFF.
A stylishly dressed young white
POSTAL SAVINGS IN JAPAN. woman caused a sensation in court
38 MILLION DEPOSITORS.
Japan's postal savings at the end Prices have lost ground since our of 1998 stood approximately at last report, and values have eased Y,1,740,000,000 which is an increase to the extent of about sc. decline is due to the heavy tone of about Y.290,000,000 compared to in Japan and to tired long liquida- the figure at the end of 1927. The tion which met with a hesitating total number of person having de demand on the part of buyers. The market may, they think, sag far posits with post offic, reached 38,000,000 at the end of 1925, an. increase of about 9,000,000 over that of the 1927 close.
ther.
The New York certificated stock on the 1st December was 1,060 bales, made up as follows:-
Grade A: 30 bales. B: 85, C:
IF
48, at the close of 1008. This steady increase in the postal sav in the financial paal of 1967, when to the financial paaie 1927, when people took out their money from the banks and deposited it with the post offices. But Communications Department officials think that the people in general have come to see the wisdom of saving and have come to practice economy.
According to officials of the Com- 115, D: 360, E: 265. F: 55, W: 10,munications Department, the per X5, Y: 60, and 2: 45.
We hear from New York that capita savings at the end of 1926 mills are doing a fair business and amounted to Y.33, which increased report a little better enquiry for to 144 at the end of 1027 and to the more popular weaves, but the hodiers industry, after enjoying one of its most prosperous years is at the moment disturbed owing to price-cutting on the, part of one of the leading manufacturers.
The following price
differences have been fixed for deliveries dur. ing January
Grade A Premium 700., B: Pre mium c.. C: Premium Inc., D: Basis, E: Discount 7c.. F Dix count 19c.. W: Premium 10c., X: Sa., Y: Premium 10c.. and 7: Premium 5c.
Tenders against February and According to the report of the March contracts may begin to cir-Chamber of Commerce of Tsingtao, culate on the gath inst. and Febru-Shantung province, tobacco leaf is ary 26th respectively.
Premium
CUSTOMS AUTONOMY,
FIRST MOVE MADE IN
MANCHURIA.
Harbin (U.P.):-It was in Man- cheria that China made, her first actual step in the recovery of Custom's Autonomy, for by an understanding just reached with the Chinese Maritime Customs the Chinese Governinert as from Janu- ary lith, has acquired the right to collect directly the custom tax on parcel post goods.
A special Parrel Post Custom Bureau has been created, attached to the Department of Communica tion Three Eastern Provinces, and to whom the Cainese Maritime Customs have handed over their duties in the Post Offices.
SHANTUNG TOBACCO LEAF.
produced in Shantung in Anchia.
"
at Cardiff yesterday when ahe rush- en from the public seats and attempted to enter the dock where Ah Chow, a Chinese, stood accused of being in possession of opium for smoking purposes.
The woman was pulled back by the police, and was led out of the court weeping bitterly.
Ah Chow was stated by the police to be the leader of a gang of opium traffickers in South Wales.
He pleaded guilty to being a possession of nearly three pounds of opium, and was sentenced to aix months' imprisonment with a recon- mendation for deportation.
Station Arrast.
Ah Chow
was arrested when train, and detectives who searched alighting from a London excursion him found most of the aptum hid. den ünder his armpits","
RITUAL MURDER SUSPECTED.
"CHINESE" CORD TIED
ROUND THE NECK.
FRENCH WOMAN'S DOUBLE
LIFE.
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Yet another tirk has been forged between the Navies of Great Bri- tain and Chile. Two submarines, the Capitan Thompson and the Almirante Simpson, where lauich ed last month at the Vickers-arm- strong yard, at Barrow. These tional theory that she was the vic: their sister ship is named after
Paris, January 17th.-The sensa
names have an English sound, and tim pla aitualistic orgy, or ritual the gallant Captain O'Brien, who, been advanced by the Lyons police Chilean Navy in 1818. O'Brien murder by Omental fansties, has with Lord Cochrane, joined the to explain the mysterious death of was killed while boarding the Mme. Marguerite Hodover, a pretty for over a century Chile has named Spanish frigate Eameralda, and woman of thirty-five, wife of a body, with a thin cord lure a boot- she has thus shown her gratitudo notary'& clerk in Lyons, whose nude a number of her warships after him and after other Englishmen. lace tied tightly round the neck, was recovered from the River to the brave band of British Rhone at St. Peray, sixty miles who, under Lord Cochrane, from Lyons.
did so much, to help the young Republic to throw off the yoke of Spain.
TO LET-No. 7, STEWART TER The Chilean Fleet consists aiment Her maidservant stated that a The only battleship, the Almirante Servants' Quarters.
entirely of British-built ships Fully Furnished, Modern Sanitation well-dressed woman called at the Latorre, was completing in Eng-F. A. MACKINTOSH
Garden-Apply house and informed her mistress and when war broke out. She was had met with an soit served in the Grand Fleet under that M. Hodoyer, her husband. absorbed into the British Na
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Hodoyer told the maid that she the name of Canada, and lought Was bastening to her husband's
at Jutland. In 1919 she was hand- side, and the
women lefted back to the Chilean Navy, and together.
November 9th last, more than two Mme. Hodoyer disappeared on
months ago...
two
Detective Sergeant. Fleming said that the police had no doubt that
A local chemist recalled that Ah Chow was the leading figure in Mme. Hedover bought some cot opium traffic among Chinese into wool at his shop a short time after she left her house, and the South Wales
other woman paid for it.
He came to Britain in 1914, and worked in Chinese restaurants in Poplar for Sve years. Ho, was bound over at Thames Police Court during that period for frequenting
Chingchow, Wangchipu and Wei gaming houses, and was also fined | hsien. The price of tobacco leaf varies with its quality. Grade A
for being in possession of opium. leaf costs from 830 to over 870 per
The scene in which the white one hundred pounds, or seventy- woman figured occurred when the five cattics, grade B leaf, from 815 to over $20 and grade Cleaf from
chairman pronounced sentence. 25 to $10. Most of fobacco com- panies have their own buying agenta at the producing regions and goods bought are usually ship- ped on the Kiaochor-Tainanfr Railway.
THIS CHINA TREATY BUSINESS.
"MOAN" OF A LONDON
BEST SELLER"
I wish to goodness the Govern ment had not been in such a hurry
I've read the story right it means that we and the Chinese have made it up and are now quite friendly.
In a prean interview Sung-Tsiat sign that treaty with China. It Yang the chief of the Harbin Branch of the Bureau, stated that this act meant the beginning of new era in the foreign relations of China as it allowed the Chinese thing you could expect from a That's just the thoughtless sort of Government to fix its own custom Government. No thought of any taxes and to collect them directly. body but themselves. What about
Sung-Taia-Yang stated that no inertise of the taxes was contem-
me I write detective stories, in plated by the Burean, the tax re-
done by maining one of 5 per cent.. the
a sinister Chins with 24 per cent. Supplementary Luxury
almond eyes. Now I shan't de tax being collected by the Bureau would be a tort or simony or some
able to talk of a sinister Chink.. It on behalf of the interested instituthing equally nauseating. Chica shouldn't have the remotest idea might send me an ultimatum, and
tions
The only change for the present
would be to lower the limit value of duty free pareth from $10 to
$5.
"BLACK NEW GUINEA."
AUSTRALIA'S POLICY.
ADMINISTRATOR'S ADDRESS. Canberra Australia, under the mandate issued by the League of Nations, has accepted the task of administering the Territory of New Guinea, and therefore she is bound to carry out that task," said the Administrator
Brigadier General Wisdom, in an of New Guinee,
address to members of the Rotary Club of Canberra to-day.
There had been no accident to the husband and in the absence of any plausible motive explaining the have advanced the theory that she woman's disappearancesco was done to death at a ritualistic religious sect of Chinese or An- ceremony in Lyons by a secrét
namites,
warships in the world. In 1911 is still one of the most powerful four destroyers which were building in England for Chily were taken
One, the
into the British Fleet Tipperary, was sunk at Jutland, the North Sea. All three are 20 and Broke, did yesman servico 'n serving in the Chilean Fleet, as were harded to Chile after the war are six E Clasa submarines which in part payment."
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built on the Tyne, and when it The older ships were nearly all became necessary for Chile, to re more to Great Britain. Six de place her old ships, she turned once stroyers are now completing st Barrow, two Fleet Auxiliaries on Southampton, three submarines at tha Tyne, and Latorre is about to refit in Devor- the Almirante port Dockyard,
whose frantical tenets demand a human victim.
The cerd found round the neck is believed to have been the same as the fatal "bootlace" known to be employed by similar religions sects in Chinatown, New York, with"
which the victims are strangled with such scientific skill that hardly any visible trace of the crime can be detected.
Colour lent to this sensational theory by the discovery that the dead woman was leading a double life, and on more than one occa-is thanks to the Chilean Govern sion had been seen in the company of young Annamites in Lyons.
DIVORCE IN CHINA.
**INCOMPATIBILITY" THE
CHIEF CAUSE.
Divorce has come to China to stay. Shanghai, February 12th (U.P.). With the National Government tralia, which has such
"It is a very big task for. Aus- more. Armly entrenched sad the women of the country quickly seiz. amalling their newly found freedom, the increasing number of actions daily for annulment of the bonds of matrimony. Last year a record was
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Since the days of Cochrane the persome of the Chilean Navy has been modelled upon British dis cipline and traditions. Many Chi Yean officers have been trained in our Naval Schoots and many have served in the Fleet.
They have always been welcomed and have always won respect from their British brother officers. In the past
which the dirty work is alwave population," said General Wisdom, Chinese law courts are handling au several British Missions have guid
for Australia has within her own boundaries such enormous problems
what to do with it.
MANCHURIAN BEAN CROPS. hand with the almond eyes. I A
SOUTHERN DISTRICT
DEVELOPMENT...
The Bean Crop of Manchuria is increasing yearly, and according to revent statistics. the total produc- tion in 1923 reached 3,241,000 tons,
Mind you, I might compromise c. the Chink if I were given a free strong on atmosphere in my stories, and almond eyes convey that creepy feeling that snakes every harmless terrier a Bengal tiger.
Therefore, the
Chinks being 'ont," I'll have to call on other race to furnish the villain with the almond eyes. What about showing an increase of 520,570 ton body know anything about them? a spot of Filippino? Does any over the figure for the previous year.
It is noteworthy that the increase Would sinister Filippinos have al is seen mainly in North Manchurin, mond eyes? Why not? I could while South Manchuria showed very always say he belonged to little increase. The Southern diamond-eyed branch of the Filip
the trict is now almost entirely culti pitos-the elder branch. vated, and there is little hope for further development, but North Manchuria at has great possibi lities of growth. Out of 520,570-ton increase, 400,140 tons were those of North Manchuria.
Again, there are the Copts. A ainister Copt sounds pretty sinister, don't you think? But there's a drawback. I expect my stories will shortly be broadcast for the Whart The Manchurian bean output of the fellow says, "Suddenly the ingers Hour at 2LO. And when 1928 according to districts was as shadow of the sinister Copt darken follows:-
South Manchuria.
ed the window," all the listeners Compared policeman.
will think it is a sinister cop or That will make the 1928 with 1997 ahadow, twice too big; also it will eroplons crop tons muddle the audience, South of Mukden 491,630 -6,630 Along Peiping-..
No, on second thoughts it must Mukden Line... 79,950 -22,810 be Filippino-almond-red, of Kaiyua district 421,300 +27,980 course.
Along Mukden- Hailungcheng
Linc Changchun and
167,340 +45,780
Coming back to the Chinese, who who is now a man and a brother, let us hope he'll let bygenes be bygones. What I mean is that if be district......** 400,310 +5,680 he will refrain from making his does start writing Chinese thrillers
Kungchuling
Along Ssuping- Taonan Line.... Along Kirin- Changehun "Line ....... Chiento, district
Total
112 330 +45,140 with bulbous blue eyes. That would Firat Murderer & sinister Briton be a blow-now that I'm plumping 387,340 +7,790 for a Filippino. Fair play ia
bonny play. -2,230
582,000 +81,370
13,500
84,690 2,170,040 +120,430 North Manchuria, On-C.E.R. South- ern Section.... Harbin district... O.E.R. Eastern
Section Lower Sungari... Along Hulan- Hailun Line ...
+80
That point being settled amid general applause, I'd like to ask the Government to make 'no' more treaties without consulting me.
For example, I don't want any fraternising stuff with the Bolshies. 487.550 +78,044 I have my living to earn, and a 574,040 +25,220 whiskered Bolahy is reckoned for assessment purposes among my as
464,730 +62,600 į seta.
C.E.R. Western
Section Elsewhere in North Man-
comrades and plant them on in offensive Lapps or Goanese I know churia
+50 where my vote in't going at the Total 3,423,130 +400,140 General Election.-A. P. Garland Grand total... 3,241,090 +590,870 in London Morning Post.
If the Government force me to ........ 1,180,550 185,540 shift the whiskers off the Moscow
#
3,541
of her own that it is difficult forect in Shanghai courts with a total her to spare men and money for of more than 1,400 divorces, ritories. However, Australia has aliat rule in Shanghai, divorces a gain the development of her outside ter-
of more than 800 over 1927. In 1926, before the establishment of Nation got to realise that she has to make failed to reach the hundred mark sacrifices of money and of men to carry out the task.
Survey of the 1933 divorces based Press, reveals that unhappy coupica on statistics compiled by the United have their seasons." Spring and Summer are the "big
seasons, with Fall and Winter trailing quite a distance behind... More than so per cent. of 1987 divorces were filed between May lat and Septem: ber 30th, and the remaining 40 per cent. in the other seven months of laat year. Desember wound up the year with 75 cases, just a little more than five per cent. of the year's total
ed the development of the Chilean Navy, and one is now serving at Valparaiso. A Chilean Naval Mis
an impression upon all with whom sion is now in Engiand under the command of Admiral Costa Pellé, and he and his officers have made they have had to deal hy their technical knowledge and their evi long coast line Chile. has a large dent professional ability. With her seafaring population, and it natural that with more than a century of high tradition behind her she should produce naval of Navy is a small one, but it is first- cers of the highest type. class, and it may yet be destined to play an important part in world politics in the Pacific Ocean
Her
Within the bounds of her limit. ed resources," added General Wis com
"Australia has already done a great deal in New Guinea. A very fair Public Service has been built up, the work of the Adminis tration has been extended into the back country of the territory, and the confidence of the natives has been gained. I am sure that under the Australian Administration the natives have been made much healthier. Last but not desty th great deal has been done to increase territory. I am hopeful that in a the development and trade of the
Mutual Desires. Incompatibility was responsible few years it will not be dependent infidelity for 15 per cent, non-sup- only on the copra market. Iam
for almost 900 divorces last year, constantly hearing of the White and other causes contributing 13 per port for 10 per cent, with cruelty Territory of New Guinea. It is Australia policy as applied to the cent of 1928's total of 1,400. Annal identified a dead man as her hus A mystery in which a woman
that applies in but the black New Guinea policy of the estranged couples, some man was not the husband, arose not the White Australia policy, ment of "business marriages" and band while her son said that the marriages arranged by the parents Asiatica are excluded from the ter
New Guinea,
Chinese families still continue to at an inquest at Wimbledon on a ritory, not because of the White plight the troth of their sons and man, aged about fifty, who col Australia policy, but because of the daughters in their infancy was lapsed in High Street, Merton, and black New Guinea policy, and in actions the interests of the people of New
successfully sought in some 60 died in hospital. Guinea themselves."
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During the past year, most of the divorces were brought by one party with the knowledge and consent of the other. As evidenced by the figures for December, when 37 suits were brought by couples seeking cancellation of their marriage ties. by wives and 16 by husbands, the desire for divorce is usually mutual and the trials, as a result, lack the sensationalism common in the courte of the United States.
DANCING WIFE TO "OBEY."
PENALTY OF GOING HOME LATE.
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The magistrate (Mr. W. B. Luke): Probably he has recover ed by now, and wil he willing to forgive you. But if you have dis, obeyed your husband it is perhaps right for you to eat a little humble pie, and I do not doubt that you will have to do so."
PUZZLE FOR A CORONER.
SON DENIES HIS MOTHER'S IDENTIFICATION.
The woman, who said that her name was Luxton, and that ahe lived in Edgware Road, asserted that the man was her husband. Her daughter, who accompanied her, was satisfied that the man was her father.
Religious Mania.
Mra. Luxton, however, told the coroner, Dr. Taylor, that in order son to see the body. The son was to make certain she would like her
sent to the
mortuary in the coroner's car. Mrs. Luxton stated during her son's absence that her husband, - a commisalonaire, left her five years ago. He was religious and had preaching on the brain.
"He got it into his head," she added, Park preaching about something of that he must be in Hyde other. I am sorry he took to Hyde Park"
The coroner: I have heard some people in Hyde Park and they could not talk
Mrs. Luxton: He could argue enough, and he was never any fur- the forward when he finished.
The "son stated, when he return. ed, that the man, was not his father. Dr. Taylor decided to hold the inquest on the body of an unknown. ran He recorded a verdict of "Death from natural causes,”
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