COMPANY REPORT.
الحبة
THE HONGKONG TELEPHONE COMPANY, LTD.
The report of the Board of Directors of the Hongkong Tolephone Company to the shareholders at the meeting to be held on March 9 will state:
The Balance at credit of Proflt and
SOLICITOR FOR TRIAL.
ALLEGED CONVERSION OF
CHEQUE
Wam Douglas Sanders, aged thirty-two, solicitor, of Belgrave Court, Norfolk-terrace, Brighton, was charged at Marlborough-street, London, recently, with having
THE HONGKONG
FLOODS RUIN 1,500
HOMES.
326,000 ACRES UNDER MISSISSIPPI WATERS
Loss Account for the year ended the received a cheque for £460 and a 31st December, 1931, (including the banker's draft for £4,034 on ac- sum of $82,269,27 brought forward from the previous year), amounted to count of the executor of A. C.tures of the havoc caused by the $767.564.51. After charging $333,- Liddell, converting the proceeds 784.61 for Depreciation and effecting, to his own use.
on the 4th August, 1931, the payment of an Interim Dividend of 4%, absorb ing $128,000.00, there remains the eam of $806,840.00, which the Board recommend be appropriated as follows: To payment of Final
WAR WILA £1,000.
Mr. H. A. II. Morgan, prosecut- ing, sald that Sanders was in prac- tice as a sollefter at Bolton-street, 60,000.00 W. Among his clients WAR Mr.
Dividend of 0% (making 10% for the year).... $192,080.00 To Transfer to General Reserve (bringing came up to $325,000) Carry forward to
Account
next
Directora.
TELEGRAPH.
on
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1932.
ARMED ROBBERY.
THREE YOUTHS FACE A
SERIOUS CHARGE.
EMPIRE CONFERENCE.
MR. THOMAS PLEADS FOR
HARMONY.
enacted that United Kingdom goods should be admitted free.
Three Chinese youths, So Tak,
London, Feb. 23. Li Ming and Ko Ynt-cho. were 1,500 familles homeless.
"Do not let us go to Ottawa in brought before Mr. Fraser at the a haggling spirit, but let us go to A whole town cut off.
Kowloon Magistrney yesterday we what we can throw into the 325,000 acres flooded.
afternoon on the e charge of having common pool for
for the benefit of These are the outstanding fea-No. 11 Saigon Street, second floor, In the House of Commons, to committed an armed robbery at all;" appealed Mr. J. H. Thomse on January 29. Detective wards the close of a speech in raging waters of a Mississippi Inspector Fallon prosecuted. tributary that burst its banks, the
which he waxed indignant at the Outlining the case, Inspector ten-feet wall of flood water roar Fallon said that at about 1.16 p.m. necretary of the Cobden Club, who expenso of Major Nathan, the Sanders, who pleaded not guiltying down a valley.
20, the three defen- moved an amendment in the com- January and reserved his defence,
It was the rampant Tallahatchie dants went up to the second floor mitter stage of the Import Duties committed for trial. He
River that caused the disaster. of No. 11 Saigon Street and enter-Bill that preference only be given allowed bail, himself in and ane surety in £500,
For five weeks the waters have led the premises-by the staircase to the Dominions, India and South thundered against the Grassy door. At the time, there were Rhodesia if by March 31 they Lake Lovec (dam), and at last four females and two children on they broke through at three im the floor. One of the defendants portant points, and poured into the
produced a pistol, and the other Mr. Thomas characterised this Already partially-Hooded Tippo.
two carried knives. With those proposal a threat to the Dominions weapons, they pushed the inmates the same as to foreignere, as an into a cubicle, but did not hird insult. Everyone looked
forward them all.
to the Ottawa conference, as per- The robbers then ransacked thehaps the turning point In at flour and stayed there for about Imperial policy. We should do the half an hour. At the end of that our utmost to create a good at-
| perind, they left taking away with mosphere. Every available man whs gaged in reacur work. Even con-
en-them a quantity of jewellery. Mr. Thomas contended that the One of the women of the Government had made
great viets out of the gauls are being flour was not bounel at all; the uerfiices, though some Dominions employed.
robbers did not do so because they I had not done so as well, but that Approximately 325.000 acres are take care of her baby.
thought she needed her banda to did not Justify the amendment. submerged in six counties in a
This "We have already shown Our great Misalasippi inland lake of downstairs, and on reaching the will respond."
WORD followed the robbers hands, and I bellevo the Dominions some twenty square miles. So far no lives are reported lost.
street, raised the alarm. One of
The amendment was negatived Numeraus
turned down
without
division.-Reuter's holes have punched by the torrent in the main two made off in another direc. |
been seweraging lane, while the other Special Service. levec at Glendora, tonting logs tion. acting an battering rains,
Liddell, who died in 1927. Mr. Basin. 63,840.00 Galbraith, th barrister, became
sole executor under his will, and
given
Convict Rescuers. $205,840.00 e instructed Sanders to wind up for a concentration of boats
Immediate ordera were this estate.
Glendora, three miles down The estate was aworn at aboutį river. Under Article Nn. 105 of the Com- | pany's Articles of Association, the £5,000, Part of it consisted of Hon. Sir Shou-man Chow and Mr. D. H. mansion at Leamington Spn, Blake relice by rotation, but being called Beachlawn. eligible, offer thinkelves for T election
Auditors.
who
Lowe. Bingham and Matthews, The accounts for the year under are eligible and offer themselves for review have been nudited by Messrs, re-election.
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The only means of getting away.
the robbers
Mr.
NI
our
the robbery had been received by A Long Chase.
the Yaumati Police Station, a from Glendora is by boat. Refuges Rezervist, was passing at the time from the Diocesan Girl' School,
Mil Singh,
was receiveri Police telephone message #1 in great numbers Are encamped nn the railway embankments, and on hearing the cries of the Divisional Inspector Clark per They are scantily clothed
woman, he weat in pursuit of tonally went to the school, on the have nothing to ent.
robber who had turned down the grounds of which he picked up Red Cross
There followed
The headquarters atavenging ne
pistol. Inmates would Washington were informed that a bug chase along side streets Went on Inspector Fallon, tha
and in the course of this chase,
the robbers had used A wenpon 1.500 famílies from nine couatles robber threw HRY A parcoj very skuilar to the one produced of Mississippi have been driven
in in Court. from their Nosner.
There was no direct The Inbabor jewellery he was holding inktence to show that the pista tants of Belzoni, Mississippi, are preparing to dynamite the lovce joined in the chase after a whil was the one used at the robbery. below the town so as to lessen the this additional aid resulting in however, although evidence would pressure on the dykes near
21 near he given to show that the chase
the grounds housca.
Girls' School.
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PLANTS OVER 20.000 ACRES EVERY YEAR.
A man who, twenty-three years ago, began as a junter inspector of the Board of Agriculture to work out the essentials of British forest policy, will in March be come the Controller
of 750,000 acres of land belonging to the Forestry, Commission.
He is Sir Roy Lister Robinson, and he is succeeding Sir John Stirling-Maxwell as Chairman:
Sir Roy is a Triple Oxford Blu (crieket, athletles and lacrosse).
The major work of the Commis- sion is growing timber, and in the Just leven years 146,000 acres have been planted in Great Bri- tain. The planting programme for the current season is
22.500 acres, and afterwards there will he a fixed programme of 20,000 acres a year.
Thus there are gradually deve loping in various parts of the country some 140 forests, chiefly of pine, spruce and Douglas fir. Some of these forests will one day be larger than the New Forest, and in years to come they will be valuable recreation centres.
bis hands.
Arrest
Chinese student
of the
teeinmation Sirret.
When taken to the Pali Dioces Station, thir
On the same day, seting on natt. what
Police Officers Inspector Falion alleged was the information,
rat defendant. Was fratinel te arrested the second and third have some mure jewellery on his defendants in various addresses. person, and this property had and they were also charged with sinco been identified by the armed robbery, No property was. victims of the robbery as theirs. however, found on them.
After evidence was taken, the
Pistol Recovered.
Immediately after a report of case was adjourned.
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