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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1931..
POLICE VISIT A CHINA THANKS THE CHINA.
SCHOOL.
ANTI-JAPANESE "EDUCATION.'
HEAVY SENTENCES.
LEAGUE.
DR. SZE AND FLOOD RELIEF.
Moved
Clonera, Sept. 29. almost to tears, Dr.
Alfred Szc to-day expressed
the
PEACE
HOPES.
HONGKONG PARLEY
PROPOSALS.
China's gratitude to the Council Aligh hopes are entertained for The headmaster and a teacher of for the assistance. rendered by the success of the poaco movement the Yeuk Chee Boys and Girls' League and other countries in the between the Nanking and Canton School, Nathan Road, appeared be- task of combatting the epidemies Governments following the pro- fore Mr. Fraser at the Kowloon resulting from disastrous | liminary Bosalon held in Hong- kong between three Nanking do Magistracy this morning on the floods in China. charge of being in possession of The Council gratefully noted the legates and Southorn leaders in- documents likely to cause a distur-offer of Paraguay to recolve some cluding Messrs. Wang Ching-wel
thousands of refugees of German and Sun Fo. bance of the peace.
The two delegatione unanimoua. Defendants were Chan Woon-cho,rixin from China.
The Council will probably holdly decided to propose the despatch the headmaster, and Lau Wing- a final sitting to-morrow in order of telegrams simultaneously the resignation
anhx, a teacher.
COLONY'S' 'BUDGET.
(Continued from Page 1.)
an- of
tion of the National Government. la Canton.
Inspector Fallon, who prosecut-te dispose of the issues arising from nouncing ed, said he went to the Yeuk Chet the Sino-Japanese conflict.-Reuter. Chiang Kai-shek and the dissolu Boys' and Girls' School, 491 Nathan Rond, and saw second defendant. In A class room. On the black-board in the class-room were Chinese characters, which the defendant ad- mitted had been written by him. A and Chinese detective translated it was found they were illegal and likely to provoke a disturbance.
Defendant said he wrote the characters on the board from newspaper for the pupils to tran-i scribe.
ter.
129,070
Botanical and Forestry De- partment.. Education De.
partment... 2,046,000 959,025
139,949
1,462,481
175,762 1,708,000
2,436,114
1,521,800
Kowloon-Canton
Railway... Volunteer De
fence Corpa MIscellaneous
Services Charitable Ser-
vices
On the ground floor, letters were found on the desk of the headmas. One was hand-written but others were duplicate coples. The headmaster was brought under ar* Pensions rest on the strength of the con- Public Works tents of these letters, which he said Department were sent to him by people he did Public Works.
Recurrent He stated that letters not know.
Works. Public
Extraordin Dry ... Expenditure from surplus balances
Talis
of this nature could probably be found in every school in the Colony First defendant anid he did not write the characters on the board. The letters the Police found on his tlesk were sent to him from
be various places, but
did not know where they came from. A great many had been sent to him but he had destroyed ali except these discovered on his desk.
"A Good Idea."
At the
2,173,645
Outstanding disputes between the military commanders of the two Governments will, it is hoped, be settled at a unification con- ference which will seek to form 1101 National Government. 110,087
Yesterday's meeting decided to nsk Mr. Wang Ching-wel to draft 1,739,708
the
proposed telegram, 947,547 The desire of the Nanking.
Generalisaimo to seek peace s 103,660 conveyed in letters seat to Messrs. Wang Ching-wel, Sun Fo and Koo 1.490,965 Ying-fan in which Chiang is enid to have admitted to some extent 142,296 mistakes in the administration of the Central Government which 2,038,928 had led to the split in the Kuomin
tang. 1,536,10 The decisions of the conference have been telegraphed to Chiang Kai-shek, and Canton 14 eagerly 2,500,000| awaiting his reply. This morning the Nanking delegates and the Southern envoys left for Canton, where a final conference will be held.
1,228,000
1,000,000
$26,611,787 23,365,385
KINGSFORD SMITH.
ENCOUNTERS HEAVY
SANDSTORM.
Second defendant said he saw a very good idea in a Chinese paper which showed a way of Having China by the students, who “were asked to educate themselves,
Basra, Sept. 29. Air Commodore Kingsford 1.30 p.m. yesterday, it was translation period, and he wrote Smith, who left for Aleppo to-day, an extract from this paper on the ran into a heavy sandstorm and board, for the students to trans-it is expected that he will have to cribe. At thin time, the Police and at Shaiba. Reuter, arrived.
Both defendants were convicted
on the Emergency Ordinance of
WEATHER REPORT.
SHANGHAI'S “G.O.M."
PASSES.
DEATH OF MR. BRODIE CLARKE.
Shanghai, Sept. 30. The death occurred at three 'clock this morning, at the age of 87 years, of Mr. Brodie A. Clarke, known as "The Grand Old Man of Shanghai."
The late Mr. Clarke, broker und auctioneer with Mesure, Hopkins, Dunn and Co., Ltd. first came to
since resided.
He had Volunteer Corps service at Home and in Shanghal for 50 years, and was for many years a Fire Brigade member. He haki
́ed to six months' hard labour and the Shanghai Jubilee Medul, 1803,
1922. His Worship, before passing sentence, said men like the defen- The antieyelone is central to the East in 1964, when he arrived dants were responsible for the up-the west of Shanghai and it Hongkong. Two years later, he
of bringing of children tender spreading eastward. The depres-went to Shanghel, where he has years, If they failed to do their son north of the Paracels Is Alling ilaties, the punishment should be up. Pressure is low to the east meted out in proportion to their of the Visayas. crime. It was people like them who were responsible for the death of the boy who was shot outside the Yaumati Police Station the other the second to one year.
A Scotsman, born at Achareldh, day. If that boy had not been
he would A youth
was sentenced to 12 Nairn, he was a well-known club- incited by older people,
being a member of tha certainly have not been near when strokes of the cane for taking part mun,
In addi- Shanghai, Race, Golf, Rowing and the firing took place. People like in an unlawful meeting. the defendants were the real mur-tion, the Magistrate (Mr. Fraser) International Recreation Clubs of derers of that-boy, not the people bound over the boy's mother in the Shanghai, of the Constitutional who actually fired the shots. sum of $250 (or his good behaviour Club, London, and of "the" Nairn
The first defendant was sentene for a year.
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