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of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on MONDAY, the 1971 DAY OF JANUARY, 1931, at 8 PM., at the Offices of the Pablo Works Department, by Order of His EXCELLENT THE GOVER- Fox, of One Lot of CROWN LAND Ngna Ten Kok, in the Colony. Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, Bommencing from 1st July, 1898, rith the option of renewal at Crown Bent to be fixed by the Barroyor of En MAJESTY TO Krvo, for one farther
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WEATHER REPORT. ceedings degenerated into senti- mentality. The remaining eight re- Yesterday's wonther report, forecommend the suspension of the cast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory, at 32 p.m., stated:-
The anti-cyclone over the lower
death penalty for five years, death sentences being commuted as at pres
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extreme penalty, bug for not very logical reasons. She thinks that
mentions three particularly enllous murderers, CHIEN, EDITH TROMP SON and NORMAN THORNE, as having been unduly punished. The present system takes full cognisance of extenuating circumstances and at present nearly half the death sen- Tess tenees are commuted.
The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, JANUARY 10, 1931,
ACTION
MB. BALDWIN has sounded the in a week's time there will be war to the knife. A determined offensive will be launched on the Govern ment and every effort made to detach the Simonite wing of the Liberal Party. The chief point of attack will be the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions (Amendment) Bill, which seeks to anal the legis lation passed after the General Strike of 1996 to prevent any recar rence of revolutionary tactics by
tocsin When Parliament assembles
The Home Secretary was asked in the House of Commons. by Mr. Day (Lab., Southwark) if it was
Death Fumes in Flock.
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Local.
"The mattress was of flock and| this, burning aglow, had the same afect as a charcoal fire, giving off was made by a doctor at a sheer day.
carbon monoxide." This statement
,
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Interview with Dame Clara Butt.
Pago 0. Belilice Public School prize-giving Paga 7. not time that the law relating to ness inquest on Joseph Gordon,
Large estate in Hong Kong and there are degrees of murder and weepstakos and lottorics was so aged twenty-nine, and William Mc England was left by the late Sir
clarified that the public would know Donagh, aged twenty-three, naval Gershom Stewart.
Pago 7. the exact position.
Would not n stokers, who were found dead in a
The pawnbroker who was seriously committee bo the best means of bedroom at a Navy and Army finding out 7 Mr. Clynes: In a pro- Hotel, Sheerness. The jury returned injured in the Caine Road shooting vious answer I indicated that if a verdict of "Death by miendven tragody succumbed to his.wounds at the Government Civil Hospital. there was evidence of a general ture owing to carbon monoxide poi Full details will be found on page 7. demand for injury I would consider soning." It was stated that when what could be dens. I have seen no the men were found dead the mat-The deposit receipts on the Eqait- such evidence. If the interested trees and some of the clothes of the able Eastern Banking Corporation, partics do not want an inquiry why bed occupied by McDonagh were alleged to be forged figured in a
hould wo insist on it l
their case at the Central Magistracy yes- aglow. Both men died in sleep. A half-smoked cigarette wna terday when two Chingae were found near Gordon's bod
charged in connection with a con- spiracy to cash them. Page 7. To-day's wireless programme..
- Page 5. Shipping Intelligence. Page 15.
perves.
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The Battling One.
Politicians as Musicians.
Sport.
Interport football trial match,
Page 10, Home Football Cup re-play and League results.
Page 10, R. Abbit's weekly review of local cricket clubs and players: Page 10. A accond rugby interport winľ will take place to-morrow, Page 10.
Battling Battalino (there ought to
Mr. Lansbury, who sang "The be a prize for the most picturesque boxing name), who retained the Waggle of the Old Dog's Tail," at world's feather-weight champion. A social gathering of M.P.'s, is not ship by defeating Kid Chocolate in the most notablo musician in the fifteen rounds at Madison-aquare Government, though no doubt he in one of the best draws. The out- Garden, New York, has had a meteoric carcer in the ring. He standing, performer is Mr. F. O. started boxing as an amateur when Roberts, the Minister of Pensions, He won the whose fiddle is well-known on
platforms. Connecticut State amateur feather Labour
With Mr. he was seventeen. weight championship in 1928 and Rhys Davies, a former Minister, 1027, and the national amateur fea he formed a choir of Labour mem ther-weight championship in 1927. bers of Parliament, which included Battalino met with his firat defeat Mr. Alfred Short, the Under Home as a professional in 1928, when he Secretary, who is a baritone tenor, was beaten in six rounds by Johnny Among the rank and file the star Ciccone. He was the world's featurn is Mr. Maxton, whose render- ther-weight championship by defeating of pirate songs is almost terrify- | Latest Cables. ing Andre Routie, of France, in ing in its intensity. Mr. Maxton has September, 1929.
even been known to compose a song The Belgian Concession at Tien.. himself and sing it to a select auditain was formally handed over to
China yesterday,
Page 0. A4 Ahmedabad the police yester day opened fire on a crowd demon strating in sympathy with the four Indians who were executed at Poona
Page, 9. The President of the European
ence.
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The real arguments against capital punishment must be based less on the foelinge of the criminal than on those of other people enncerned. Hangings exercise a morbid fascination over many MR. BALDWIN'S CALL TO people. On the eve of un execution La number of sensitive souls cannot sleep out of sympathy for the suffer- ings of the condemned. The prison staffs lonthe the whole business. It gets, to a varying degree, on their The Home Secretary, the judges and prosecuting as well a defending out would welcome n change in the law. Though it is never difficult to ascure a hangman, cruel and bloodthirsty men should not be allowed to indulge their twisted mentalities by doing the Yellow Fever Discoveries, job." Nor can the mental agony of
What Moon Woods. Valuable the murderer's innocent relatives be yellow fever has been done by On research work
People were impressed by Meen's entirely forgotten.
Professor Edward Hindle, and the fine frame, and it is expected that But the upshot of the whole "British Medical Journal" reveals he will yet give a very good ne
made by him in relation to this heavy-weight. What would not a pernicious piece of legislation and murder increases when capital deadly disease. It now appears year in America do for him! But Travers, has written a letter to The Statesman endorsing that a very right and proper object of punishment is stopped. France that, contrary to hitherto accepted his deficiency in ring intelligence journal's complaint that the British
opinion, yellow fever may be trans made boxing men shudder. politiced bombardment. Apart from Jocked up the guillotine with disnsmitted by more than one species Meen there was no question of stay-Indian delegate to the Round Table the formal first reading, the Bill trous result, and had to take it of mosquito, and also that in the ing down for a period of the count Conference, Mr. Gavin Jones, failed will be opposed at all stages and out of store. Italy has done the early stages of the disease the blood to gather the wind that was being to reprezent British opinion in India in advocating responsible govern every effort made to secure a
of yellow-fever patients is so highly knocked out of him. As long as he Bane. In Hong Kong it would be infectious that more contact with could he jumped to his feet as it ment with a central administration. Government defeat on this measure. ridiculous to show mercy to pirates the surface of the skin may produce too proud to fintter Carnera's It is a major issue, and defeat at and murderers. They simply would infection. These discoveries are of punching power. He was as cour any important phase of its progress not understand it. They would take the utmost practical value. Only in- ageonsly rash as a man who fights tensive anti-mosquito campaigns can a bull by facing it. Before the fight would involve resignation of the it as an invitation to continue in wipe out, yellow fever, but it is now Carnora's manager, Mr. Leon Sec, The Marie Colesto.
Among all the explanations of the Government.
their ways, probably assuming that apparent that still greater precau- said: "Nobody can beat Carnera, tions must be adopted by those I believe he could take on any two one of their oplleagues had bribed brought in contact with yellow fever men in the same ring and put them Marie Celeste mysters, the very the Governor. The bardoned AmericaBCE.
out. The idea ia interesting. Per-probable theory advanced by the can gangster merits no mercy, and
bape Walter Landrum could play owner at the original inquiry ap
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the Trades Union Council. It is & controversy should rest on whether two highly important discoveries; count of himself as our best British Association at Calcutta, Mr. W. L..
two cues.
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pears to have received little atten- tion.. The vessel carried an infam...
The Conservative Party should be in fighting trim after its success in saying the safeguarding duty on British dyestuffa, in face of the there is a vast underworld in Eng-Politics and the B.B.C. Government's determined effort to land kept in check at present by The report that a comprehensive London as an Art Centre. expose this young industry to the severity of the law and the agreement has been reached govern-
During post-war years London mable cargo including spirits of tur competition from foreign dumpers. efficiency of the police. For the ing all future political broadcaste
is not wholly accurate, says & Home has become, from several points of pentine in barrels. The suggestion Mr. BALDWIN himself has con police the death penalty is a real newspaper. No general settlement view, the principal art centre of in that on a morning of fair weather solidated his position as leader. He protection. A burglar caught in the affecting all future talks has been the world. It is here that several and calm sea a mild explosion oc has beaten the Press Barons, though act will risk a few more years on his reached. True it is that for the of the world's most important art
last year and a half discussions have exhibitions have been held, and curred in the hold, blowing off the the BEAVERBROOK papers continus sentence and drop his man with a taken place between the party similar great exhibitions are now batch cover. The crow, aware of sniping, and he has brought his re-gun, unless he knows that the hang- Whips in the hope of arriving at being organised for the future. the dangerous nature of the freight,
teme equitable distribution of the Without doubt London is now the calcitrants to heel. There are no man will then be waiting for him.
At one mo- world's greatest market for all and fearing fire and a second more It is not pleasant to hang men, but ether between them. serious rivals for the Premiership while murder continues, in the ment it was suggested that the kinds of works of art-books, china, devastating explosion at any in elect, especially after Mr. Chun proper deterrent Miss
HELEN right allocation between the Govern silver and goldware, and antiques." CHILL'S recent indiscretion. Mr. NORMANTON's pretty suggestion that ment, the Opposition and Liberals In the last ten years between £50 stant, tumbled pell-mell into the BALDWIN bàs, in fact, celebrated easier divorco would mean fewer ahould be in the proportion of and £00 millions worth of British boat in a moment of panie and murders is rubbish. A man who 26 5. Of late, however, these ratios works alone were sold to America, pulled away from the ship. A few the occasion by issuing dis would murder his wife for his have been abandoned, and although and an expert has stated that n ciplinary letter reminding all Con- freedom" would commit murder political talks will figure in this many treasures still remain that minutes sufficed to prove their fears servative M.P.'s of lost chances and in any case. The motive of the year's programme of the B.B.C. no what has gone will:hardly be mist groundless, but in the steady breeze wife murderer is either jealousy or general arrangement or rule has ed. One London firm transacted the ship sailed qictly away by her- telling them sharply that "no ex-money-negatively to escape paying born laid down as to the ratias of business on a scale which almost case except illness is adequate for alimony, or positively to set a time and ether to be allotted to each equalled the combined total of New self faster than they could over- failure to respond to a three-line cKay. Very common reasons for party...
murder are to escape either detec whip,"
tion or arrest after committing a Mr. BALDWIN has become a cau- lessor crime. There are cogent
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arguments against the death penalty in England, but now is a dangerous timo to relax the torrors of the
tious campaigner. As long as his party was divided over the tariff issue he bodged and refused to law. commit himself. Now that all his followers have been convinced that
the continuance of Free Trade is Trees in Hathan Road
impossible he has officially accepted The stately old trees along Nathan Road are having their, prunning.
Tork houses.
take..
*Local Notes and Events *
One case (non-Chinese) of typhoid fever was reported for the 24 hours ended January 14, 2
The temperature in Hong Kong pared with 21 in Shanghai...
Sir William Hornell is to dis
tribute the prizes at the Italian Convent School at 5.30 p.m. next Wednesday,
the principle of tariffs, and is ready it is done dastically, large branches at 8 am, yesterday was 51, com- for general advance on the
being sawen off by the Botanical Labour Government, in which every and Forestry Department 201 Conservative is expected to go over ployees. Nathan load can claim to be the finest in the Colony, straight the top. Mr. BALDWIN is regarded and brand and decorated on either by some people as a gentle and side with these fine and old trees. somnolent person. Actually he is It would be a sad day for Kowolon if this beautiful line of banyans red-haired, and pugnacious, a fine had to be sacrificed in the intereate orator and a dangerous antagonist, of speed and yet more speed. There is no doubt that the sparks Fortunately the road should be, for will fly when Parliament re-assem- ears to come, wide enough to ac commodate both trees and motor bles to consider the "strikers' trafic. charter," the Cabinet's failure to deal with the unemployment issue, and its passive acceptance of the abuse of the dole.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT..
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A Speaker Worth Hearing.
The Hong Kong dollar opened yes. terday at 1188, and dropped a far- Thero thing during the morning. was no change in the afternoon:
brothel at 911, Temple Btroot, a
At Kowloon Magistracy yesterday proceeding to and returning from- Mr. Da Roza, of No. 1, Dorset the Ke Shing Theatre, where he Crascent, Kowloon Tong was sum-is dining with the Chinese com-: moned before Mr. Butters, for
having discharged fireworks without munity. The details of the route permit from the S.0.A. on Dover-will, we understand, be published ber 31. Mrs. Da Raza said that her shortly. It is also proposed to in- little boy, threw the crackers from vite residents on the Peak whose the verandah on to the round. He houses face the harbour, to place a was not aware that crackers were
red lamp in each of their windows. not allowed to be discharged with out a permit. A fins of 85 was imposed.
Five Chineas appeared before Mr- H. R. Butters yesterday on the charge of the theft of various articles to the value of $34 from 53, Ha Heung Rond on January 11 Charged with keeping a ely The first three were also charged Chinese named Ng Ho was fined Mr. Bascom Johnson, the Chair-8100 or two months' imprisonment man of the Commission sent by, the by Mr. Butlers yesterday. League of Nations, to inquire into the traffic in women and children
We have been informed by the in the Far East, is to-day address. ing a meeting to be held at St. agents of the s.s. Kashgar which is John's Cathedral Hall at 5.30 p.m. advertised to arrive at 6 a.m. this Mr. Johnson cannot of course, say morning that owing to bad weather much about the matter he is inves outside, the vesal will not dock till! tigating. The results of the Com- probably about, noon.
mission's work will be stated in a report to the League of Nations.
The following forthcoming mar
Hong Kong Daily Press, January
13,-1906.
Looking Back 50 Years.
PUNISHMENT OF CRIME IN TIBET:- On this subject a correspondent writes: When a case is brought before a Tibetan ofheidl, if both parties come willingly they are let. alone and no torture is employed. with the larceny of certain articles. But if the culprit refuses to come, from 20. Pak Tak Street, the total he is apprehended and shut up in value of which was given ne 868.75, some room or stable, or in the There were other charges brought prison, if there is one. After a de- against the first and second defentention of some days, ho is set at ants, and on the application of liberty, provided that mediators Bodily punishment is seldom resort- Inspector Lane, the defendants were and friends stand ns, his security. remanded for a week,
ed to, because a Tibetan prefers paying any amount of money rather thnu receive the bastinado; but he must not be too slow in complying with the official's wishes, nor show himself publicly insolent, otherwise the stick and lash will teach him submission and politeness. In order
formind one forrector to ver
Looking Back 25 Years.
We understand that the Reception
We publish on our front page some thing about the recommendations of a section of the Select Committee But today's lecture deals with the riages are announced:-Dr Antonio Committee for the entertainment of, the House of Comment on almost of the beerus It is Paula Guterres residing at 24H.R.H. Prince Arthur of Con-
of course, actious mibject, burdenssille Road to Miss Thelma Chillend an dir nriver in zion Capital Punishment. The Com Mr. Johnson, as the Rotary Club Ricardina Pacheco d'Assumpcio, of next month, decided at akuzzing cohle more sabuassive the offelst mittee consisted of fifteen members, know, in a very eloquent and witty, Peace Avenue Kowloon. Mr, hold yesterday, to invite the public, will condemn them to kneel down and it was conducted in such speaker. He has a fund of good Raymundo Alarcon, residing at 10, both European and Chinese, to and hold on their heads large stone stories at command and what h6 Granville Road, to Miss Agnes illuminate their premises on tho slabs which do the office of the manner that the seven Conservative has to say to-day will be well worth Brown, of 670, Nathan Rond, Kow night of February 10 along the Chinese congue-Hong Kong Daily
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route to be followed by H.R.H. in Press, January 14, 1881. members withdrew when the pro! hearing.
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