Further evidence was recorded at the Kowloon Magistracy yes-
The Hon. Sir Henry Betterton. Minister of Labour in the British Cabinet resigned from that post terday, when Cheung Chs, charg- on his acceptance of the Chair- cd with the murder of Wong Bui- manship. of the Unemployment mul, a
Young Chinese woman. Assistance Board established under made his second appearance be- the Government Unemployment, tore Mr. Wynne-Jones,"
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Sir Henry is also resigning his seat in Parliament-Reuter.
WINDFALL FOR TREASURY
London June 28. The will was published to-day of Lord Tredegar, who left £2,389,885 in settled and unsettled "estate. The amount of estate duty payable
£1,180,000,--British Wireless.
ADVANCE OF THE to the Treasury thereon is about
STERLING
A Temporary Halt Called?
London, June 29," A halt seems to have been call- ed to-day in the recent advance of the sterling.
A gir of fourteen following a motor Yaumati yesterday.
was killed accident. at Page 8
Henry Cotton won the British Open Golf Championship yester- day with a wonderful record,
Page 9.
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Latest Wimbledon tennis results appear on Page 9.
LOCAL AND GENERAL
Amongst the passengers leaving Thursday morning. The tenant for Shanghai on the Empress of and three of his women folk were Canada is Professor C. A. Middle- Į gagged and trussed up, and the ton Smith of the University.. place was completely searched before the robbers made their escape.
A register of the water resources of the USSR. is being compiled which will contain full. scientific description of alf rivers, lakes, glaciers and seas in the Soviet underground waters, Union: The register will be print reference book in thirty volumes.
lished by the end of 1934.-
posed by the Government of
The quarantine restrictions im- the Straits Settlements against arrivals New York has been offering from Hong Kong on account. of dollars in anticipation that Pre- small-pox have been removed sident Roosevelt speech will con- London, June 29. tain inflationary proposals, but
marshes, Mr. Harry Tubh of the British The death occurred at Cam- with disappointment in these
Rev. hopes, offerings are expected to Legation in Peking and bis daugh- children were
bridge yesterday. of mediately rushed to hospital The Arthur Sowerby who, for 40 years subside. M. Reynaud's speech inter. Miss Joan Tubb, have return- ed from home leave in England existing difficulties in French in- | Mr. Arthur Sowerby, F.R.G.S., dustry and the large discrepancies F.Z.S., the well-known traveller between French, and world prices, and authority on China, who is coupled with the recent - distur- at present in Shanghai, is a 50g bances in the provinces are caus- of the late Rev. Sowerby.
ing some apprehension for the future of the frane.
ed in 100 volumes, says Tass. A
if we compared the 1934 dollar smaller one was not detained, but was a Baptist missionary in China, the Chamber pointing out the Mrs. Tubb is prolonging her stay will be compiled and partly pub-
with the 1929 one, instead of with
the elder girl was in a serious the hopelessly depreciated coin of state and she passed away" three 1933, what do we find? The gold hours after admission.
value of the dollar is less by four-
tentha bus the "external" value
of the dollar has not changed to "SIBERIAN MAIL
any very great extent. The dollar will buy lewer. French francs, Swiss francs and Dutch guilders; it will fetch about the same num- ber of English pounds and Cana- 'dian dollars while so far as the Japanese yen, Argentine pesos and Shanghai tael are concerned, it will probably buy more of these. Only to a very few Americans is the gold value of the dollar of any importance. The "external" value is of greater importance, but to most Americans, the internal ” value of the dollár, or what it is worth in the United States, has
To be Resumed Shortly?
London, June 25.
It is understood that through running Siberian mails via Man- chukuo will shortly be resumed by agreement with the Postal authori ties not involving major questions
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BRITISH SHIPPING
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at Home.
Kwok Po, paint-scraper, received. head injuries when he fell from a plank whilst scraping a ship at Messrs. W. 8. Bailey and Com-
There has been a movement of pany's shipyard. To Kwa Wan, on funds from Paris to Lodnon, Bri-Thursday. The injurea man was tish control accentuating the removed to the hospital. movement by offering franca:
A
Officers of Nantao Public Safety Bureau are making inquiries into the mysterious shooting of Sun- day night, when one Loo Ah Ban was killed. Officers of the Bureau were informed of the affair by one Wong Tse Kan who gave his address as 8 Ha Ghing Tce, Kang Chu Road, and said that at 9 pm. that day, a stranger ran into his
London, June 28.
This action is severely criticised j An eight-year-old student of St. While the main feature of the by. the Financial News which Peter's College, Cheung Hau Tan, Government scheme to help points out that the fund is using has been missing from the College house, shouting for help. A few British shipping is the granting of up gold stocks which are already at Caine Road, where he was a seconds after, this man dropped financial guarantees for the con- seriously depleted, and opines that boarder, since Thursday, Tae dead on the floor.. An examina- struction of new merchant ships it is better to leave the franc alone boy's parents are in Chiushow. tion of his body showed that the on the condition that three old while it is weakening with a view It is feared that the boy might new one, it is learned that there sonax defence of the sterling later vessels are scrapped for every to preserving the funds for sea have been abducted.
of the Bino Government polley. are also proposala for limited in the year. On the other hand,
There is reason to believe that subsidising of merchant ships opinion seems to be growing that of clothing and some money, were was named. Loo Ah San, but who
A bank draft for $800, a quantity the Government has prately which are competing against Continental gold currencies are at stolen by armed robbers who en-had murdered him and what was much the greater importance. In made friendly representations in specially heavy foreign subsidies, present considerably overvalued intered a hut in Chuk Yuen yillage, the motive of the crime was un- this respect, it must be gratifying that connection to China-Reuter. Reuter.
terms of sterling-Reut
Kowloon City district early on known.
deceased suffered one gunshot wound in his chest. The Nantao Police made inquiries and later i was ascertained that the deceased