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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1926.
CANTON ROAD TROUBLE. THE POUND AND DOLLAR.
COOLIES' HOSTILITY TOWARDS POLICE.
Sunday's-Riot Premeditated?
TRANSATLANTIC CREDIT POLICY,
An Unused Fund.
PEKING PRESIDENCY,
EFFORTS AT RESTORATION.
UNHEALTHY PRAMS."
CONDEMNED BY DOCTORS.
The big perambulator at pre- sent in fashion is condemned by. Dr. Doreen Nixon and Dr. John Nixon, of Clifton, Bristol, who write to the British Malicul Journal::
JAPAN'S TAXES.
THE GOVERNMENT'S
PROGRAMME..
business tax and substitution The abolition of the existing therefor of taxation on the basis of profit and loss returns, is one' of the several important matters which the Government is to in- troduce in the present session of the Diot, in connection with the plans for financial readjustment.
Shanghal, Fob. 3. General Li Kan-yuen, formerly commanding the Yunnanese troops in Kwangtung, arrived in Tiontain That the coolies residing in Can-
Now York, Feb. 3.
on the 2nd inst, and is working ton Road in the vicinity of the The annual report, of the with ox-President Li Yuan-hung Kowloon Godown Co., are hostile Federal Reserve Bank of New for the restoration of the Pre- towards the Police was the opinion York sets forth the Bank's policy.sidency, expressed
Detective by
Sub Dealing with dorcestic credit con Inspector Andrew at the Kowloonditions, which it declares are not Magistracy yesterday, during the
influenced by relations with the the course of his evidence in an Bank of England, it adds: "While enquiry which was conducted by Mr. E. W. Hamilton, with the as it is the intention of this Bank to sistance of a jury, into the circum exchange information fully with The M.P.'s are stances of the death of a coolie who the Bank of England, and avoid' Tientsin in the restoration of the is out of reach of any sunshine the foal-year commencing next.
The modern baby is apt to be pallid, oven though it may be
muscular: The M. P.'s in Tientsin have sent plump and
The representatives to Hankow to re-modern perambulator is deep and quest the constitutional clique, to dark, so that a small infant lying Pat the bottom of it, covered with a water-proof apron of some dark very active in material and shaded by the hood,
or daylight.
come to Peking.
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detrimental to the maintenance they may be paid $200 each on the unnecessary action, which is Presidency, and it is reported that of a free gold market, the Reserve 8th. This fund comes from a secret Bank and the Bank of England source.-Wah Kiu Yat. Po,
fell from the first floor of No. 12 Canton, Road, during an ourlier police raid on a gambling school on |the night. of January 11.
The jury summoned to enquire are both absolutely free und, not into the death of the coolie con- committed with regard to any sisted of Mesars, F. C. Coleman action relative to discount rates." (foroman), F. C. Clemo and A. A. do. In view of the pound sterling's Carvalho,
close approach to parity, consider- An assistant shopkeeper, who heard able interest is aroused in the tho commotion during the raid, Bank's first official announcement! Haid that on going into the middle that use has not been made of of the road, he saw two men climbing the $200,000,000 credit placed at from the first floor verandah of No the disposal of the Bank of 124 to the adjoining house. The England lust spring, for two
PROPERTY SALE.
QUEEN'S ROAD LOT DISPOSED OF.
at the age of two month's pasty We found our infant daughter faced and white, though thriving well enough us regarde weight and general nutrition. Her diet of Grade A milk suited her, ad mirably, and she took 510z (diluted with lioz, of water) every three hours.
The existing business tax will lapse into oblivion in the fiscal 10 per cent. will be allowed for yoar of 1927-8, but a remission of
April, providing the bill receives the Diet's endorsement."
Other important bille coming". before the Diet in the near future are a bill in regard to mediation, in labour disputes; a bill for the repeat of the profiteering, a con trol legislation, and a bill for the randjustment of the Nishihara Losne to China. 1995
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leceniacal was first, with the other veürs, in connection with Britain's presentative of the Sang Yue that with her mattressos the baby / man in the rantter of punishment
return to the gold standard. Reuter's American Service.......
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da Rocha's auction rooms, the re A regular attendant at Mr. A.
Land Investment and Loan Com pany, was again the purchaser of a plot of land which was offered
man immediately after him. The an in the rear appeared to slip and de an attempt to regain his balance by holding on to the decoas an attempt will be made next for sale yesterday afternoon.. ed. with the result that both men May by the Union Francaise fell into the street. There were no d'Entreprises
Sonsmarines, policemen on the verandah or in the French company, to recover the bullion in the steamship Egypt May, 20, 1922, about 20 miles off Ushant. The Union Francaiso has obtained the assistance of German divers with special apparatus..
street.
Sub-Inspector Andrew said that ke, together with 14 Chinese detec tives and Sgt. Pearson, raided the first floor of No. 128, Cunton Road, at 8.45 p.m. on January 11, and ar rested 4 Chinese fur gambling. It was not until some minutes after that witness was made aware of the Jaccident.
Questioned by the Coroner' as to whether Sunday night's riot had any connection with the cullie's death, witness replied that the other Coolies were probably incensed by the first raid and attempted to take their revenge on Sunday.
The medical evidence showed that the deceased succumbed to a frac tured ekull and cerebral hemorr hago.
A verdict of accidental death was returned.
OBITUARY,
MR. G, B. COLSON.
The death bas dccurred at Home of Mr. C. B. Colson, former ty superintendent of the generat ing station of the Hongkong Electric Company, following an operation for cancer at the Royal Northern Hospital, London.
The late Mr. Colson was lifteen years in the service of the Hong- kong Electric Company and left! the Colony in 1921, to settle down
Home. A member of the Hong. jkòng Club and of the Royni Hong- ong Yucht Club, he was well- nown throughout the Colony" and nis many old friends will regret o learn of his decease and will extend sympathy to the widow in Jer bereavement.
Death at Sea.
The Norwegian steamer Dampto arriving yesterday afternoon, re- ported the death at sea of Mr.. Ernest F. Cox, a British passen. ger from Saigon, which occurred at 10.30 p.m. on January 29..
The body was landed at Hong- kong, the Dampto putting in for that purpose. The cause of death is not stated.
FRANCE'S PROBLEMS.
M. BRIAND'S APPEAL.
Paris, Feb. 9.
In the Chamber, continuing the financial debate, M. Briand said he depended on the goodwill of all Frenchmen to overcome the pre- sent dimculties.
Certain fiscal systems inder! improvements, which should be made, but it was a question of obtaining immediate resources, which was the object of the Go ernment's Bill, for it was not the moment to stand by doctrines. The Government refused to engage in battle against the finance 'com. mittee, since the Cabinet was not inclined to resign unless the majority of the Chamber definitely indicated this, as its will.
The franc should not be stabilized at less than its real value.
M. Briand was frequently cheer- ed, and concluded by demanding the wholehearted collaboration of Parliament and the country, in a toya) effort for the salvation of French financos, Havas,
which sank after a collision on
The property consisted of 1,487 tions thereon known as Nos. 002 square feet of land with the erec and G04 Queen's Road, West, situ sted on Inland Lot No. 1501.
With an upset price of $25,000, the property was knocked down at 528.100, after several bids of $100 and others of $900.
There seemed no reason for
Alterations in the mediation' changing her diet. So we tried the effect of bringing her up to bill are to be made on the ploa surface. placing a light wooden that the regulations now extant truy in the pram at such a height are too hard on the labouring lay not more than four inches for his delinquencies. A portion below the sides of the pram therefore, to be erased and em- of the existing. legislation is, The hood and mackintosh apron bodied in separate rulings for the aro only drawn up when it is
control of rowdyism. actually raining."\/
In three days the child's com- white to frosh pink, and so it has plexion changed from a pasty |
remained.
This note may be of value in directing attention to the draw- backs of a deep prani and the ad. vantages of raising the infant oc- cupant up into the light of day..
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