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CONCESSION.
TEN PERSONS CAUGHT IN DEATH TRAP.
Caught like rats in a trap, seven persons comprising the entire fami- ly of a shoemaker in the French
At this afternoon's meeting of the Sanitary Board, Mr. M.K. Lo will ask the following questions:-
Will the Head of the Sanitary Department be good enough to answer the following questions for the information of this Board, after
DAGGER.
WIFE STABBED BY HUSBAND."
Using
ascissors blade as weapon,Ku Cho Kai stabbed his wife in three places at No. 4, Wynd ham Street on the evening of June 24.
When produced before Mr. Grantham at the Central. Magis- tracy yesterday, the assailant was
ACCIDENT.
MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE AGAINST DRIVER.
CASE COMMENCED. AT MAGISTRACY.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
WEEKLY COMMUNIQUE.
Monday, June 30-His Excel- lency visited the University and was received by the Vice-Chanceller, who conducted him round the build- inga."
Wednesday, July -His Excol- lency, accompanied by the Secretary
for Chinese Affairs, The Hon. Mr.
Concession, and three apprentices making any necessary enquiries charged with having caused grier June 24. The case was heard be. A. E, Wood, visited the Tung Wah.
were burnt to death in a fire which broke out early on the morning of June ; and raged furiously for nestly an hour. *..
in
from the proper Authorities:-
4
i-Hos any asylum been estab- lished in the Colony for the segre gation and treatment of lepers under Section 2. of Ordinance No.
of 19101
ous bodily injury to his wife, and was sentenced to six months' hard labour.
W!
According to the wife, who had The conflagration broke out
only recently been discharged from the kitchen of a shoe store at
-If not, how are lepers found hospital, the accused came to No. 543-5 Rue du Consulat at 1.30 a.m.within the Colony dealt with if:-, Wyndham Street and asked for through causes which are still be- (a) they are British Subjects or $10. She did not give him any permangat residents of the thing as she had then no money and the husband proposed as an
ing investigated.
Smoke soon Alled the rooms and the shoemaker's family tried in every possible way to get out. Thera was no escape by way of the kit chen for in this section of the house, the fire was blazing furious 1y, and there was no egress from the front portion of the building because it was impossible to force open" two doors and an iron barri- er, all of which had been locked to prevent theft. Rushing upstairs again, the inmates sought in vain for a way to escape the terrible death which awaited, them but they were caught by the James and tes were burnt to death.
Several others, however, managed to escape by climbing over the roof to neighbouring houses.
After a hard fight, the blaze was finally suppressed by the French Fire Brigade.
A brief report of the above by. our Shanghai correspondent was published in our issue of June 4.
SERVICE OF SALT LOANS.
SEIZURE OF 81,000,000 BY YEN
HSI-SHAN.
Nanking, July 1-X. E. V. Soong, Minister of Finance, issued the following statement to day!
Colony
1,
A charge of manslaughter was brought against Fung Yee Chan, the driver of the motor forry which met with q mishap in Aberdeen on
fore Mr. R. E. Lindsell yesterday.
Mr. H. Somerset Fitzroy appear. ed for the prosecution, and Mr. Horace Lo was for the defence.
Mr. Fitzroy, in opening the case, said that the evidence would show that the lorry was running free at the time of the accident, as when it was righted after the accident, it was found that the gears were in
and Tung Wah Eastern Hospitals, and was received by the Beard of Directora
Thursday, July 3-His Excel- lency presided at the meeting of the Executive Council.
Friday, July 4-Mrs. Buckland. lunched at Mountain Lodge,
"Captain Coltman, A.D.C., repre- seated His Excellency at the re-
(b) they do not come within either alternative that the complainant neutral. The brakes were in exception at the American Club in
of the above categories i
iii-If lepers were sent out of should accompany him to his uncle, the Colony, is it a fact that many from whem the sum might be rais- of them return to the Colony whilst ed. This the wife also refused to they remain uncured?
iv.How many lepers were dealt with in the last ten years 1
Is it known whether there are and if so approximately how many, lepers now in the Colony 7
do.
She was finally pursuaded to ac
company the defendant downstairs, and on the second floor landing,
the defendant caught hold of her
cellent condition, and the lorry could have been pulled up within 18 feet if it was travelling at 20 miles an hour.
"Mr. Fitzroy stated that the driver
evidently lost control of the lorry and jumped out, probably turning the driving wheel in doing so. The
Saturday, July & The Hon. Mr. honour of Independence Day.
Wolfs and Mr. Hornell arrived to.
stay.
Sunday, July &The following were guests at luncheon at Moun-
tain Lodge:-The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Silva-Netto, Mr. and Mrs. de
vi. In view of the recent exten and stabbed her on the chest, les people in the back seat of a lorry/ Martin, Lt. Col. Stokes, Lt. Col.
and arm.
sive medical researches into the cause and treatment of leprosy :-
The accused told his Worship that (a) What is the latest theory as to
its cause? In particular is his wife had descrted him in sexual intercourse with a leper awatow. Hearing that she was in chief factor in the causation of
(b) Is it infectious? (c) Is it contagious 7 (d) Is it now
this disease This disease be Hong Kong, he came to the Colony ing associated in the minds of to pursuade her to return, but she the general public with im said: "You mind your own busi- morality, is such a view justi. fed by modern medical knowess and I will mind mine. Don't
interfere with me. Go away." ledge.
When they were on the second floor landing, the accused said that curable disease:
facilities he and his wife had'a struggle. On vil.-Are there any provided in the Colony for the falling to the ground, the defen- medical treatment and cure of dant's hand came into contact with leprosy 1 not, does the Honour- able the Director of Medical and a scissors blade, and in the struggle Sanitary Services consider that in his wife was accidentally cut with the interests of public health in this instrument. the Colony there should or should not be such facilities?"
"
His Worship decided to convict, and accordingly passed sentence as
stated above."
in front saw the incident, explained
Mr. Fitzroy."
Motor Bus Commandeered. Acting Sub-Inspector Baker, who was the first to arrive on the scene" of the accident, said he found lorry No. 2851, overturned. It was lying on its left side with it nose pointing towards Hong Kong. It was lying in a side road leading to the Tai Tung Distillery. Eigh- teen men and seven women were injured. An Aberdeen motor 'bus was commandeared and nineteen people were thus removed" to the Government Civil Hospital. The remaining eix, who were in a more serious condition were held back pending the arrival of the motor ambulance. They were duly ro moved, the ambulance arriving on the scene at about 8 a.m. ment has made the Salt lean pay NEARLY FOUR MILLION IDLE.
Sub-Inspector Baker said that ments tecording to the plan adopt
there were about thirty fisher-folk rd in September of last year, but
gathered arounil the lorry but the the making of future payments has been placed in jeopardy because
driver was nowhere to be seen. Yen Hsi-shan has so far not re-
Mr. Fitzroy stated that the leased over 31,000,000 of Salt Re- venue loan quotas collected in the
Berlin, June 30.-The newspaper diver lost no time in going to the districts under his coptrol.
The Salt Administration is con-
Tempo claims to have found out No. 7 Police Station to make a tinuing to make every effort to pre-jobless to-day throughout the Unit that the recent Roumanian coup report. He did so by getting on to an empty lorry which had preced cure the release of these funds in ed States, while Secretary of Cem'état which brought about the en- order to be in a position to continue merco Lamont yesterday issued &
Acting Sub-Inspector Saunders, to give effect to the programme of
census figure indicating 2,298,589 thronement of "King Carol was ac-ed him on the road. unemployed, or two per cent. of the tually financed by the Belgian Inspector of Vehicles, deposed that loan payments.
total population, which is much, less financier Marquet who started his he had examined the lorry and than estimated.
career as a dishwasher in the station restaurant at Namur and now owns some of Europe's nest hotels.
Up to the present the Govern-
AMERICAN WHEAT CROPS. A CURTAILMENT SCHEME.
(UNITED PRESS, 1
June 29. Mr. Washington, Arthur Hyde, Secretary of Agricul ture, and Mr. Alexander Legge, chairman of the Federal Farm Board, are renewing their efforts to curtail wheat production in view of anprecedentedly low price levels.
AMERICA'S UNEMPLOYED.
New York, June 97.-Contending that the unemployment situation in America is worse than last year, Mr. William Green, President of the American Federation of Labour, announced that there are 3,900,000.
Mr. Lamont's figures are based on the census taken in one-fourth of the United States. It is impos- accurate sible to determine an number until the final figures are available,
Mr. Green declares that the American wages earners lost over $200,000,000 in wages through the unemployment in the first six months of this year, that the pre- sent 3,000,000 unemployed do not in- clude office-workers or farm-labour- A series of broadcasts will beers and that the actual number of made by radio in the near future, unemployed is much larger.. in which leading authorities will declare that wheat acreage in the United States aust be reduced, otherwise there will be a huge wheat "surplus" with a continuation of price declines.
FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN BOLIVIA.
(UNITED PRESS.]
La Paz, Bolivia, June, 30.-Free- dom of speech and the press, an unprecedentedly liberal departure for Bolivia, were announced to-day
The Trade Union Unity League ander the leadership of the United States Communist Party announced
plan of another gigantic unem- ployment demonstration throughout the country on July 4-Osaka Hainichi.
NEW ENDURANCE FLIGHT
RECORD.
EIGHTEEN DAYS IN AN AEROPLANE.
FROM DISHWASHER. TO KING-MAKER.
MAN WHO FINANCED ROUMANIAN COUP.
Eaves, Mr. "Melbourne, "Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Holmes, Mr. and Mrs. Baker, Mr. and Mise Scott-Hare- ton. Mr. and Mrs Osborne, Mr. Eldon Potter, Mr. and Mrs Lewis..
SHANGHAI FIRM LIQUIDATING.
PROBST, HANBURY & CO. WINDING UP BUSINESS.
REORGANIZING AFFAIRS,
An old and well-known firm, ote of the pioneer British concerns in China, is going into voluntary liquidation, according to telegrams received in Shangai from London. The firm referred to is Mestra Probat, Hanbury & Co. Ltd. and it had been rumoured for some time that this step was to be taken. A extraordinary general meeting of shareholders was held in London on June 27 whes it. was unanimously decided to liquidate the affairs of
the company.
Liquidation of the firm does not mean that it has encountered fin- ancial reverses but it is simply be ing done on account of the fact that two of the biggest shareholders desire to retire from the China found it practically undamaged business and that it has been COL- with the exception of the driver's sidered advisable to reorganize the scat which had been knocked off, affairs of the company. Indeed the and the offside mudguard, which
in spite of adverse business condi- The paper adds that as a reward was badly buckled. The handbrake company made a profit last year
tioue Marquet will receive from the Rou-at the time of his examination was marian Government big oil conces off and the gear was in neutral. sions which might develop into a monopoly.
FIGHT WITH INFANTILE PARALYSIS.".
'SUFFERERS OFFER OF
BLOOD FOR SERUM...
[UNITED PRESS]
Los Angeles, June 99.-The city of Los Angeles was believed to-day to have been saved from a serious epidemic of infantile paralysis as aremlt of general responses to a appeal by health officers that for mer suffers from the disease should give their blood for the purpose of providing a preventive serum.
It was announced to-day that it is believed by health officials that sufficient offers have already been received to enable them to combat the incipient epidemic. Immune persons
Alter witness had given details of, the measurements which he had taken, and of marks which he found on the road, the case was adjourn ed.
SEQUEL TO RAID ON
GODOWN..
CHINESE CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF CIGARETTES.
Mr. Luke A, Chill, one of the London directors, who was former- a resident of Shanghai, has been appointed liquidator, but, during the liquidation, the local branch will carry on business as usual, the Shanghai directors to be managers of the liquidation perding satie- factory arrangements which are be- ing made to continue business, either in full or in part..
Messre. Probat. Hanbury & Co., Ltd. (better known to the Chinese na Kung Ping Yang Hong) was established in Shanghai about 80 The raid on a godown at West years ago under the name of Point on. Sunday night, which was Messrs. Frederick Bower & Co. In reported in yesterday issue of the the latter part of last century, it Daily Press, had its sequel at the was taken over by Messrs. Iveson Central Magistracy when a Chinese & Co. and after that, Messrs. named Leung Sik Pui, described as Ward, Probet & Co. took over its cook employed at a Chinese shop affairs. Finally, Mears. Probst, at 137, Queen's Road West, was Hanbury & Co., Ltd. became the charged before Mr. I. E. Lindsell name of the firm, which owns the Kung Ping Building at 21 Jinkee yesterday with unlawful possession valuable property on which the of 422,000 dutiable cigarettes."
Defendant entered a plea of Not Road now standa Guilty,
Chicago, June 20-A new en- by the new revolutionary regime. durance flying record of 421 hr. 21 It was stipulated that public de-min, 30 secs, was set at 6.01 o'clock monstrations may be held, provided this morning Central Daylight southern California responded to information received, a raid was the police are notified in order that Saving Time by the aeroplane the appeal. " they may maintain orded.
In the witness-box, Revenue throughout Officer Grimmitt said that upon DIOCESAN GIRLS' SCHOOL
THE HAPSBURGS AND HUNGARY. RESTORATION NOT IMMINENT.
Chicago, piloted by the brothers Albert and Walter Manning
Their sister, Miss Irene Mau- ning, is cooking for them on the ground below and sending up meals by another neroplane which de- livers fuel through a rubber hose at regular intervals.
The brothers' expect to continue Budanest, June 30.-Count Albert Blying "until July 4, although a Apponyi's declaration at the meet-perilous leak developed several days" ing held by the Legitimists at age, with loss of all the fuel in one Oedenburg to the effect that Arch of the wing tanks and a consequent duke Otto's coming of age in comity for frequent refuelling. November next will not make im- It is expected that the Mannings minent the restoration of the Haps will receive approximately Gold burg dynasty in Hungary, has $200,000 from gasoline, radio, aero- aroused widespread attention plane and spark plug companies Count Apponyi added that the and numerous other concerns which Legiraists would not make an are realizing upon the flight by use attempt to reinstate the former of advertizing. dynasty, until the foreign political ituation was such that the resumo- tion of the Hungarian throne by the Hapaburgs would not entail grave risks for the cation."
The former record of 150 hr. 20 min, was made last year. by Dale Jackson and Forest O'Brien at St. Louis in the seroplane St. Louis Robin.
U.S. IMMIGRATION LAW.
BURGLED.
carried out or Saturday on a go. down which is situated in the base. ment of the house. There were THIEF CAUGHT WITH BOOTY, three exits from this place, and as
Ku Chi, sa unemployed Chinese, only one of these was guarded, most of the people connected with made his appearance before Mr. T. the place made good their escape. S. Whyte Smith yesterday on the The accused, however, was arrested charge of theft of articles and cloth in the shop, and he had a key which ing to the value of 50, the pro- fitted the door of the basement. He perty of students of the Diocesan also tried to run away, but was Girls' School, Kowloon, caught in the attempt, and after the cigaretten were discovered, he said that his master rented the basement The next step taken, witness con to the Sang Lee shop, tinned, was a raid on this shop, but evidently the pepple there had got wind of this step, and cleared out before the officers arrived. The only things discovered were a bunch of papers and the prosecution want
Sentence of five months' immori- This measure would be similared time to get these translated.
The Magistrate accordingly rezonment was passed on the first
second, these to run concurrently, in nature to the recent bill for ad-
ing. citizens, mitting Chinese wives of Americanmanded the accused until this morn charge and two months on the
FURTHER RESOLUTION TO MODIFY EXCLUSIONS..
JUNITED' PRZIS.] Washington, June 29. Repro sentative Robert G. Houston of Delaware today announced that he has drafted a resolution, for consideration by the "short set- sion" of Congress "convening next December, providing for the admir sign of Japanese and Polynesian wives of American citizens married before the enactment of the 1924 immigration law,
Detective-Sergeant Naughton told
He put the stolen articles into a the Court that accused get into the premises by climbing over the wall. bag, but was caught by an Indian constable just as he was leaving the school
The head mistrem of the school, Mics H. D. Sawyer, gave evidenco on behalf of the students to whom the property belonged.