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Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Rooms newly renovated and lustalled with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Water, also Telephone.
TEA DANCES:
Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 5 to 7 p.m. Hotel launch meets all aleamers.
above Hotel),
J. H. WITCHELL,
"Manager.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
LOCAL DISEASE PREVENTION,
GOVT. WOULD WELCOME ASSISTANCE.
REPLY TO DR. KOCH.
At yesterday's meeting of the Sanitary Board a letter from the Government was laid on the table, being a reply to the resolution pre- posed by Dr. W. V. M. Koch on May 15.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1928.
VIENNA TRIAL OF BELA KUN.
COMMUNIST AGITATOR FOUND GUILTY.
ONE DAY FASTING MONTHLY DURING SENTENCE.
* GIRL ALSO SENTENCED.
WEE 18
EXPLOITING HUGE OIL FIELD.
ROYAL DUTCH ACQUIRE BIG INTEREST.
100-MILE PIPE LINE.
New York, June 26.
A Colon Oil Corporation is being formed to take over the entire capital stock of the Colon Develop ment Company, the two principal negotiators being the Royal Dutch Shell group and the Carib Syn- dicate.
Dr. Koch's motion followaThat this Board re-
Vienna, June 26..
The new Corporation will lay a spectfully suggests to the Authori-
The trial of Bela Kun, former ties the propriety of setting in ac head of the short-lived Communist hundred-mile pipe line from Tara Venezuela to Lake tion Investigations Into the pos- sibility of devising means for the Government of Hungary in 1919, Field, premention of the prevalent infec- oponed to-day, when he was charg Maracaibo, with a daily capacity of It munist agitation since 1927. He Thirty wells have already boon tious diseases, such as Typhoid,ed with conspiracy and with Com-twenty thousand barrels. Malaria, Tuberculosis, etc. further suggests that such investi- was further charged with being a completed on the property, but the gations might be undertaken by member of a secret society and development company were in dif- Incal medical men under the direc-with returning to the country con-ficulties owing to lack of trans- Convertible debentures to the tion of the Government, and that trary to an order prohibiting him port facilities.
Miss Roma Greuer, who is asid value of G$10,000,000 to provide ($25 for thirty Tiffin Ticketa can be had at the Office of the their reports be published for the from doing so.
guidance of the community.
In the course of the letter from to have been Bela Kun's secretary,funds for the development of the The Royal Dutch interests will Tel. Add:"Victoria:"
the Government it was stated:and Georges Mayerhoffer, who is oil field will shortly be issued. Telephone C. 373
"The Board is no doubt aware that alleged to have been an accom-
of Infectious plice of Bela Kun, were also in own the majority of the 2,200,000 shares, and the Batavian Petro- the prevention PALACE HOTEL."
diseases prevalent in the Colony lathe dock, Tel. Address "PALACE."
a matter at all times ocenying the Tél.. Kowloon No. 8
Three minutes from Kowloon Whorf, Ferry and Railway Station.attention of the Medical Olcers of
The case for the prosecution Entirely under English Management. Electric Light and Fans throughout. this Government, and investigation Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms.
connexion is indeed one of the Kus, in the witness box, déclar- Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress. of the problems arising in this closed after a few hours, and Bela most important functions of the fed that he came to Vienna for the Terma moderato. Special terma to. familles on application to:
Mrs. J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietress.
Board itself. Any assistance purpose of attending a Congress which local medical men can of political and literary workers. render to the Government in this matter will be welcomed and the Government will be glad to receive from them reports suitable for publication and likely to be of
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value in the education of the com- munity."
IS AN INVOICE A RECEIPT?
All three prisoners pleaded notleum Co manage the proper- ties on which at least G$12,000,000 guilty to the charges.
have already been spent-Renter's American Service.
Curious Sentences.
Bela Kun was found guilty of belonging to a secret society, and of falsely describing himself, and was sentenced to thras montha' imprisonment.
Miss Greuer was sentenced to one month "strict arrest," while Mayerhoffer was acquitted.
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The prisoners have been in custody for two months and it is understood that this will be taken in account, with the presumed re- sult that 'Bela Kun will only serve one month, while Miss Greger will be released.
(Continued from Page 1.) Mr. Lindsel asked Mr. Dennys
Bela Kun was also found guilty of if the invoice were handed over the contravening the order forbidding counter to a purchaser, who was him to return, and one day fast later stopped at the door, and theng each month was ordered dur- customer produced a document bearing the word "received," would that not be a receipt?
Mr. Dennys replied that he did not think so, and said he could pro- duce bills from every firm in the Colony with invoices bearing the word received," or its equivalent. He then produced a voucher from Messrs. Whiteaway, Laidlaw's for A $15 cash sale which he handed to the Magistrate.
His Worship remarked that the word on Mossrs. Whiteway's form was "delivered."
ARMOURED TRAIN MUTINY.
(Continued from Page 1.) ported to have been sent up to Chengchow where they will join the party when it arrives there.
Prior to his departure, Marshal Chiang sent a wire to "General Chiang Tso-pin, the Chairman of the Committee of Administration for war area, informing him of his intention to visit Peking
A telegram from Hankow states that General Li Chung-yen has wired to General Pei Chung-hal in Peking informing him that he will proceed to the North with Marshal Chiang Kai-shek. It is reported that General Peb has ordered a special train to proceed to Hankow ing his three months' imprison-in order to receive Chiang, and his ment, while a further order of party-Nam Chung Pati. deportation was made to take effect immediately on his release from prison-Router.
Bela Kun's Dossier.
Nanking Decisions.
Shanghai, June 27. At the meeting of the Nation. alist Government at Nanking)
The meeting also decided on the appointment of the Committee of the Peking Political Council, the Committee of the Provincial Gov- ernment of Chihli, and the appoint- ments of the Mayors for Puking and Tientsin.-Nam Chung Pao.
Bela Kun was formerly a journ-yesterday Marshal Chiang's plan for troop disbandment" was xdla- alist, a man of Jewish parentage.cussed and approved. He joined the socialist party at Budapest. In the war he served as an officer on the Russian front where he was taken prisoner.
During his confinement he learn Mr. Dennys then handed up aed Russian. Escaping from captivi- form from Messrs. Lane, Craw- ford, Ltd., which bore the word he joined Kerensky but later "paid," remarking that that word went over to the bolsheviks. He
returned to Hungary after the $9,000,000 Treasury Bonds, was as good as "received." Con- Feare of Brest-Litovsk and took an
Shanghal, June 28th. tinuing, he said that the practice
Mr. T. V. Soong, Minister of of the whole Colony was to give active part in the revolutionary these "invoices which
showed movement, finally seizing the reins the Nanking Government, is con- exactly what one bought or had. of government. He was at length templating the issue of $9,000,000 Treasury If these has to be stamped, Mr. driven out by the Roumanians worth of Government
Bonds, security for which will be Denays said it would mean that if after four months of misrule,
Bela Kun then returned to Aus-the Tientsin Custom Custom 2.5 per a person paid his railway fare he would expect a stamp on the tria and later went to Germany cent. surplus tax.
from where he was deported. Het ticket.
then took up his abode in Moscow with the Soviet Government.
"Paid" and "Received,"
In a hotel, said Mr. Dennys, one got an invoice for what was con- sumed, and, on receiving the monoy, if the waiter put the word "paid," it was as much as putting the word "recolved," but that form would not be a receipt. Doubtless if one asked for a proper receipt, one would be given It. If that were not so, then the whole of the trading concerns in the Colony would have to reconstitute and ré- organise their aystems.
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Disband. lishment of a Troop ment Committee as Soon possible for the purpose of turning as many soldiers as possiblo Into labour workers The First Army. Corps will be cut down to five Divisions and he expects others to cut down their forces considerably. Swatow, June 21.
An Army Revolts. Letters have appeared in the
Shanghai, June 26. Press from a gentleman named
It is reported that the 6th. The documents in this case, con Chin Slau hau on the subject of tended Mr. Dennys, were not legal
for the Nanking acquittances in that they did not education. They are of some Army at Changsha, which was re- come from
who length and are by way of being sponsible person
marching, to Kiangsi.-Reuter.' | sold the goods. If the Com- advice to the Mayor on the deve outrages, has revoited and is now
andlopment of education in the part, pany were summoned
New Postal Centre. not the coolic, the summons and the importance of transform-
Nanking, June 26. could not possibly succeed, becauseing the First Municipal Middle
The Nationalist Minister of Com- the word "received" did not mean School into a model school."
The interest of these letters Acquittance. The law did not de- mand a receipt, and any customer from this particular man is that munications has notified the For-
separate Directorate-General could take away the goods after it was he whose action led to sign Ministry that as the need of a The thin school, which was the Angle Posts in Peking no longer exists, paying for them in, cash. coolle did not sell the goods and Chinese, College, being confiscated henceforth the hoad office of Chin- ese Post Office will be established therefore could give no receipt for during the boycott. He was an money paid against them.
old scholar of the school and in Nanking, and the Director-
the
of
In answer to his Worship, the bafore it decided not to opon General and Co-Director-General police said that what Mr. Dennys formally in the autumn of 1925 he have been instructed to wind up had stated as regards the circums-gave his advice against re-opening, the Peking office and remove it to tances under which the receipt was then subsequently gave it as his Nanking-Reuler. given was correct.
Cases Adjourned.*
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opinion that because. It had not been re-opened by the English.
Presbyterian Mission it automati- OVER THREE: LAKHS, The defending solicitor, in reply cally fell to the Chinese bo run it; to the Magistrate, admitted that whereupon he himself was elected if the word "received" was put on Principal.
SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE FOR
1927.
At a meeting of the Legislative
by the authorised cashler of the. It is in this school that the firm, the document would have Executive Conference le meeting, constituted a receipt. He pointed and it is one of the mysteries of the out, however, that in the present present situation that while the Council to-morrow afternoon, the Instance the coolie had no right to Canton Government Is sign it.
now on first reading will be moved of s friendly terms with Hongkong and Bill to authorise a supplementary Mr. Lindsell adjourned the case the British generally, no move has sum of $387,699.33 to defray for a weet, remarking to the police been taken to hand this school charges for the year 1927. The
sum is made up as follows; officer in charge of the case that back-Our Own Correspondent.
H.E. the Governor. Royal Observatory.... Attorney General
it would be as well to consult the
law officers of the Crown on the
points raised by Mr. Dannys aft It is probable that some un Land Office
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Four other coollen employed by employed miners from South Wales Public Works Recurrent 2.094.98 the Tal Chung Wah Company, re- will be drafted to South Hamp Miscellaneous Services 857,094.88 presented by air. Dennys, were shire to assist in picking the Charitable Services ... 22.134.41 similarly remanded..
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