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THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, FEDARY 23, 1931.
AMAZING WEAPON OF THE AIR.
BRITAIN'S LATEST WAR MACHINE.
CARRIES SIX GUNS.
London, Fob, 20. An amazing new air weapon has completed its teats at the Royal Air Force Experimental Station.
This in a "Gloster" single-seater fighter, armed with six machine guns, two of these being syn- through the chronised for firing proller and the others arranged in pairs on each wing.
AN UNREGISTERED MUI-TSAL
IGNORANCE OF THE LAW PLEADED.
TURKEY REALISES
RESPONSIBILITY.
STEPS TO STOP FLOOD OF ILLICIT DRUGS.
GIRL WHO RAN AWAY.| CHECK ON FACTORIES.
Lf Sang-ki, of Quarry Bay, ap- peared before Mr. Schofield at the Central Police Court this morning w a charge of keeping a mui-tani who had not been registered dur- nt the recent registration period. The defendant pleaded guilty. Alr. Q. A
A. A. Macfadyen, Assist ant Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Informed his Worship that the case not a very complicated one. The defendant had purchased the range that their. Jp Chung-klu, when she was years of age. that being vix lines of fire converge between 100 and 200 yards trom Echine. vars ago, and during the whole of time she had lived with him The craft has a speed of nearly
14. Quarry Bay. owing to a dispute 200 miles per hour and a ceiling of
ween the defendant and the girl, 2, fort: bence oxygen is carried.
The plane can amb 15,030 feet she ran away on Friday night and lept the night at the Police its nine tutes, and does 320 miles
Station. The following day she her in a live---Renter.
All six machine-guns are contrell- ed in unison from the cockpit, with
POLICE RESERVE,
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ORBERS FOR THE CURRENT WEEK.
...
ice Reserve Orders by the Dr. Wolfe, C.M.G., Tupetar Genern) of Police, state: ?
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General
Practien. There wil rexdlver partier at the Ken- mote Road Rag on Wednesday. Foienry 25th, 1931
Police Training School. The weekly classes for Police Reservists at the Police Training School. Kowloon, will be held as nul on Tuesday, February 24th. At 5.39 1.1. All members of the Chinese Company and of the Fly fur Squad who have not vel passed Part Training Course should attend
Chinese Company. Squad Brill. -All recruits of the Chinese Company will attend al Central Police Station for Squad Drill on Thursdir. February 26th. at 539 m. pnler 1. S. R.13 Tso Chi On.
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Constantinople, Feb. 22. The Government has issued an order designed to prevent the dis patch of contraband narcoties to foreign countries.
The orders provide for the of three factories cloying down manufacturing oplum derivatives in Constantinople until they have presented lists of their stocks and the names of Importing coun- tries.
A special agent has been appointed to supervise each duc- tory which in future will have to notify to the Health Department the quantity of opium purchased and the quantity of narcoties mufactured.
The export
of
narcoticn
to
Amurien is prohibited.
1:03 seul to the Secretary for It may be recalled that sense-
Chinese Affairs.
tionsi disclosures concerning
reply to his Worship, the de-Turkey's part in the illicit drug dant said he was not aware that trafic were made at the last niet- i-fani had to be registered. ile ing o ld not read, and had never been
I.
the Opium Conference. Russell Pasha stated that all the drugs mang their way to Egypt as their origin Artike
Macfadyen intimated to his rship that, where there were red drug factories at Constan- purtlenlarly aggravating clr-
Linople, walle big seizures mure an "umstances, the prosecution was Hongkong. Marseilles, Sananghui
fsfied with a fine of $50.
and New York in the past six
were also Turkish
H's Worsh' aerordingly impost da fine of $0.
STANDARD OIL CO.
CHANGES.
the
ururin.--Router,
in
PACIFIC RECORD AGAIN BROKEN.
FINE PERFORMANCE BY EMPRESS OF JAPAN.
POPULAR MANAGER LEAVES ON PROMOTION.
Their many friends and asso- ciates have cause to regret departure from the Colony to-day by the s.s. President Grant of Mr. and Mis, P. s has recently been elected a Director of the Standard Oil Company of New York, and is proceeding to North China and Japan en route to New York to take up this positioner running time being eight days there.
Lurker
On Saturday Jast Mr. Parker was tendered a tiffin at the South China Restaurant by a gathering com- prising the whale local staff, bath Chinese and foreign. This was presided over by Mr. II. L. Schultz, who succeeds Mr. Parker in the Position of General Manager, South China Department.
made
Assistant
trapertion Parade. All ranks of the Chinese Company will varade at at Central Police Station Thursday, March 5th. 1931 for a
Mr. Parker leaves to-day after Keneral Inspection of Equipment ele, by the Company Commander, nearly 20 years of association with Fall in at 5.39 m. sharp under the South China Department of the P/Sgt. R. J. Hunt Dress-Blue Company, having joined in June,
1912. He was Fniform. Cap with White Cover: General Manager in Hongkong in Belt with Prog). Trugleven. Whistle. Armiet
Badge, January, 1924, and became General "Pocket Poleen in and Note- in May, 1927.
The departure of. Mr. and Mrs. Rook to be carried. Those not in possngeten of uniform will attend Parker will be felt particularly by in mut No member may
be the American Community, and by all those who have known their absent from this parade without frame from the Company Comman unfailing friendliness and hospi- der. The Equipment Oflcers will. make it point of being present. Probationers will attend,
and
Indian Company.
tulity.
Mr. Schultz, the new General Manager, bag been Assistant General Manager in Hongkong since 1927, and, like Mr. Parker, he has been extremely popular with all with whom he has come, into
Inspection Parade.--All ranks of the Indian Company will parade contact. at Poller Hondgunsters on Thurs Mr. C. E. Meyer and Mr. W. L. day, March 5th. 1931 for a general Mar hall have been appointed inspection of Equipment etc, by Assistant General Managers, the The Company Commander, Fall In former being well-known in Hong-
The Incal office of the Canadian Parific bus just received cable advices from its principais stating that the press of Japan has broken her previous speed record crushing a'ari reuni, from Yokohama Victoria by three hours forty minutes.
the to
three hours and eighteen minutes for the voyage leaving Yokohama Feh. 12th last.
at
It will be recalled that the Empress of Japan on her maklen voyage from ilongkong, August 7th broke th pre- va Trans-Pacific speed record that time held by the Empress of Canada, by making the rum from Yokohama to Victoria in eight days. Hix hours twenty-seven minutes. re- ducing the previous record held by the Empress of Canada by four hours twenty-six minutes. The Empress of
the quickest time Japan has also the speed record for Honolulu, cutting practically twenty- two hours off the previous best time, and also the speed record for the run Honolulu to Yokohama, lowering the previous record held by the Empress Camila by ten hours twenty-eight minutes.
Vancouver
"SOMALIS” FINE SPEED.
SINGAPORE-HONGKONG IN FOUR DAYS,
to
The F. and O. 9.9. Somali, which arrived here on Saturday last on her maiden trip, is the first of a New class of fast cargo shipa
at 590 m. shirp under P./Sgt. kong for several years, whilst Mr.specially designed for the China R. J. Hunt. Dress Blue Uniform. Marshall has been for some time Can with White Cover: Belt Manager in Manila.
Ithout Frog). Truncheon, Whistle. Armlet and Badra. "Pocket Policeman" and Note- Rook to be carried. Those not in possession of uniform will attend in fli No member may be absent from this parade without
leave From The Company Comman- he
der.
Flying Sqund.
THREE YEARS FOR PORTUGUESE.
(Continued from Page 1.) lost his passport, and therefore The Equipment Officer will found he could not leave the Colony, make it a point of being present. it was most likely that he would go kps Jon G 1. ei hrt e scene of the robbery or at the house of his friend. The weekly instructional patrol
Mr. of the Kowloon Section will take when searched,
Whyte Smith added that, accused had no Blace on Tuesday, February 24th. money on him, but the Japanese, Full in ut Tsim-tsu-taal Fire who had
not been apprehended. Brienite Station rat 5.30
might have been more fortunate. Dress-Winter (Iniform and Cap.
Arcused's Evidence. with White Cover.
Accused, giving evidence on oath, Squad Drill-All recruits of declared that on the night in ques the Flying Squad will attend at lon he was taken out to "chow" y Central Police Station for Squa Japanese and became so drunk Drill on Thursday, February 26th: that he did not remember what hap- inder L. S..R.333 A., W.. Mooney.pornd. He woke up the next morn- Special Duty-Members who ing to find himself on a Star Ferry ure detalled for duty at the Races launch nail to discover that his pass- will parade at Central Police port was missing. He then went Station on Saturday, February to 28. Haiphong Hond in search of 28th. at 12.30 hours and at 10,00. the Japanese, whom he thought had hours on the following days March the passport. At the doorstep of 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 7th.?.
No. 28 he was arrested. There will be no instructional Cross-examined, he admitted that patrol for the Hongkong Section although he could not remember.h on Friday, February 27th,
thing, it was quite possible he did Sharpshootery Company.
the Bange at that time,
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trade. From Shanghai homeward these vesacla will maintain approximately the same speed as the mail steamers, and will make the voyage from Hongkong to Marseilles in about 28 daya am! London in 5 days.
The .. Somali made the pace. suge Singapore to Hongkong from wharf to wharf in 971⁄2 hours.
The length of the s.s. Somali i 450 feet and her beam 57% feel. Displacement is 15,540 tons gross, dead weight capacity 10,030 tons, and she has insulated space for the carriage of approximately 70,000 cubic feet refrigerated cargo.
The 8.8. Somali will be followed by the .. Soudan in about a month's time.
CHINA RAILWAY FREIGHTS.
EXCHANGE FACTOR MAY CAUSE INCREASE,
Nanking, Feb. 22: Important discussions relating to the decision of the Ministry of Railways to increase the freight charges on railways in China, In
go to the house of the first willow of the high sterling ex-
change, are in progress hare, and it is expected that an announcó- mont will be made soon.
пева.
Mr. Lindsell, in addressing the Night Firing Practice.-Night Rifle Practice will be carried out jury, said their decision depended
It is understood that the ro on the Kennedy Road Rango on on the amount of credence they
venue of the Chinese railways hus Wednesday, February 25th, at 0.09 could give to the first witness. p.m. Members will assemblo
If they believed accused's been soverely affected by the high atory that he was so drunk that he sterling exchange, as all materials could not remember what he did, and rolling stock are purchased I. Miniature Range Practice-The according to English law drunke | from abroad,
Commonny Rife Club will hold 's news was no excuse for a crime such usun weekly practice on the as that with which accused was minlature range on Thuraday, charged, February 26 at 6.15 p.m.)
(Sgd.)
D. 8. P. (R). D. La KING,
Without retiring, the jury re turned A unanimOUN verdict of guilty, and accused was sentenced to three years' hard labour.
The forthcoming wedding is an nounced of Mr. Halvor Ingmar Felbean, nf the G_M_ Customs, S* ** Station, to Miza Isabella Lobs, of the
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