TWO TRAGEDIES AT WUCHOW
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Wuchow, June 21.
suicide Deniin of a gruesome at Yang Hui, a small village few miles west of Wuchow, are just coming to light. A student of the Kwangsi University, Wuehow, killed himself with EL butcher's knife when he
was disappointed in a love affair. entered a restaurant, and, after
borrowed eating Home food, knife from a faki. He pretended to be whittling his fan, but when the foki's attention was drawn to other quarters, the student au- denly grahed his throat with the knife, aevering the jugular vein. Before dying he handed three let ters to the fall to be delivered to his mother. friend, And sweet- hrart.
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While using the telephone Saturday during a heavy thunder- storm, the officer in charge of the Sam Kok Taui division Wuchow Police Foree was sudden- ly injured when lightning struck the wires of the phone he WAA UB- ing. Three days after rident he succumbed. the first known fatality of severe thunderstorms which have
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HOOVER PLAN FOR
DISARMAMENT
(Continued from Page 1)
members of a disarmament con- ference."
TOO MODERATE.
Baron Nadolny, the German de- legate, entirely approved the pro- posals while suggesting that they
wore too modernte.
Mr. Matsudnira, for Japan. affirmed the willingnes of the Tokyo Government to co-operate in an examination of the pro- poanis which required careful consideration with a view to en suring in a fair manner the de fence of the countries concerned.
STRONG OPPOSITION.
The Disarmament Conference adjourned without fixing a date for the next meeting.
smal.
Although about twenty fer nations ranged themselves the side of Italy and Germany
THE HONGKONG'. TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1932.
President Hoover, who has made important proposals to the Diu. Armament Conference, la here soon with Signor Grandi, who has signified unconditional acceptance on behalf of Italy.
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A thousand dollars fur alleged breach of
damages; contraet
OF REVENGE
were
Wankington, June 22. President Honver, discussing the
Brighton, May 30. effect of his proposals, says that claimed by the Yan Hing Houg the world could increase the as-
firm from the Tak Shing
The eleven convicts who firmi, which
rolensed from Dartmoor prison as surance of peace and yet save the in an action
com-j Was people of the world from ten to ifteen billion wasted dollars in Puisse Judge Mr. Justice Wood), officers during the recent mutiny, the next ten years.
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menced this morning before the reward for their loyalty to prison1822 Derture Technikowsky!
tropod Stokowski and the Philatelshin
Word has just Leen received from Northwestern Kwangsi Pro vinee saying that one of the lead. Pask ing "Red" rubbers of the Shik district has been captured,
several together with
machine
Th yunn and a ampply of rifles.
11 is emphasised that the pro famous bandit chieftain is being
als did not mention their run held awaiting word from ning, concerning what his panish.tection with war debt reductions.sugne had
Qar two Convesp
ment is to las dent.
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The statement of claim was to Two of the eleven men were at the effect that the plaintif hud tucked in the train by which they contracted to buy 1,000 hours of travelled from Darimoor, No. 24 white Java sugar From
threats Graphic stories of the the defendant for $25.920,
The to the loyal convicts were told by Hot It is understood that the President within the specified
been delivered | Norman George Edward Graham,
time feels that such a proposal would the plaintif had been compelled three years' penal
and aged 82, who was sentenced to servitude in offend the dignity of European to lay the sugar on the nations. oficial figures
open December, 1930, but was released show
mærket for $27,224. He hat has for resening Prison Officer Kelly That the United States could save
lost $1,804 on the deal, plus com- from a murderous mob of convicts Two billion dollars (about 2400,000 mission which brought the loss to while the mutiny was at its height. Arcidion Solo-Accordionala at par) in the next ten years The proposals are carried out
Graham had a feg, arm, and some Render,
ribe broken by the mutineera after he had saved this officer #234 carried him unconscious to hispital,chestral Su Come in Mc.
"Sworn to Kill."
FEAR AND FRICTION
PRINCIPLES OF DISARMAMENT.
Mr.
London, June 20,
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$1,840,8.
In order to bring the machler within summary jurisdiction, the plaintiff was prepared to waive $8408 of the claim, leaving
the amount at $1,000.
can-
The defence was that nu tract was made at all, or, H # contrart had been made, it hal been altered and was no longer 融 Arun contract between the
The case is proceeding.
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"I have been daily threatened Instrumental Emek since the riots." said Graham, wing is seeking work in Brighton. “One of the
exira men who got sentence has sworn to kill me even if he has to wait for years! Curses 22113 threats was hurled at the eleven of us when we were leaving Dartmoor. The last words I heard as I was walking to freedom were, ''Graham, you~, I will get you yet, "I was sittinge in the train with nother convict, when four well- dressed men came into our eam- partment and punched. us in the jaov. They walked away when Tellow-passengers appeared. I am I am ulte certain and afraid. 'That there will be an attempt at
revenge.
Gibson, submitting The Hoover plan, said he haped the pro- posals, which represented the subparties. stance of the instructions given by President Hoover for the vidunco of the American delegates, would To
tead other nations to state openly clay's Price how much they would contribute |to a general programme leculing to $384
real disarmament. 147%
"The time has conie-when 33%
should eat through the brush and 29% adopt some broad and
definite "method of reducing the overwhelm- 53%ing burden of armaments, 21% would be a most important step
to expedite ecunomic recovery,
"We must make headway against the fear and friction arising out of 97% armaments which kills confidence prices in London and New York, the mutiny. They will always bear 398 [throughout the world. We can
The undertone of the bical market, us a grudge, and with friends out- 10% still remain practical in maintain is slightly easier. with little side will do their best to wipe off guing adequate self-defence among business passing.
all nations.
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The Hongkong dollar has .. "We have left Dartmoor, but the lined 1/8th to day to 14. 3.1. Bd.. men we have left behind have not reflecting a weakening of silver forgotten that we helped to quell
in London, silver is down 1 16th spot and th forward. China und the Continent sold; and there
ruled
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New York reports a decline of 18th in silver, on a dull market,
The cross-rate has improved to. .625,
I propose that the following was small business, the, murket 30% principles should be our
guide: | closing quietly steady. After the 15% firstly, the Kellogg-Briand Tact, official fixing the market
to which we are all signatories, dull, with America inclined ean only mean that the hations of sell. the world are agreed that Bay wil Buse their arms solely for defence; secondly, reduction should be car ried out. unt only by broad and general cuts in armament, but by an increasing comparative power uf defence, through a deercase in 37% the power of attack; thirdly the arinuments of the world having 88 Mutilated grown up in mutual relation to
243,
24 each other, speaking generally, 21nelt relativity should be preserved in making reduction; fourthly, re- ductions must be real and positive and effect economic relief: fifthly. As for adequacy, I say boldly on the three problems to be dealt with | behalf of the United Kingdom de- |—land, air and anval forces-arelegation, that in some respects we
all interconnected.
want more disarmament that there Based on these principise, I pro-here appears. The proposal that pose that the armaments of the submarines should be retained to world should be reduced by nearly | an individual weight of 1,200 tons me third.
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Reuter,
HOUSEBREAKING AT KOWLOON
TWO CHINESE SENT TO PRISON
Goods to the value of $362 were atvien
on
We are convinced that any rea-
us JR.
ment into actual facts and their particular merit is that then did take into acentut os for
needs of sile, the earying different Powers,
NAVAL ADEQUACY.
the
RIGHT TO KILL?
MOTHER POISONED IN COMPASSION
Copenhagen, May 27. Upholding the right to kill" in rases of incurable suffering, a Danish Assize Court to-day sen- ienced a woman, convicted in a "compassion" murder case, to only three months' imprisonment.
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The woman aurrendered to the
Yesterday's higher levels of prices police, announcing that she had were fairly well maintained this polsoned her mother who suffered morning, and markets may be said to from 2201 Incurable disease-ine steady. obedience to repeated heartrending entreaties for "something to pul her out of her suffering,"
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appears to us to fall short of what i needed. We want submarines to be entirely abolished. If they wrote: cannot be abolished then at least let their size he limited to 250 society if a tons."
AIR WAR.
What advantage will it be to woman is punished for an act which most right-think- ing people consider ethically justi- fied? Why should a judge convict At a meeting of the Air Commis-if he considers it clear that the act sion of the Disarmament Confer-was committed in response to a ence, the French delegate submit-direct request and under circum- ted a programme of six proposals. stances auch that, had it been an The prohibition of chemical and animal which was in question, one germ aerial warfare, the prohibi-would not have hesitated to free it tion of nerial bombardment beyond from pain? battlefields, the fixing of a maxi-
REASONABLE STEPS. various dates and sonable step by which the vast from three different dwellingtotal of men ander arms through houses in Shamshuipo by two out the world can be reduced in men, Taang Kwan-you and Leung | ways which do not diminish secur- Chol, who were produced by ity should be welcome not only Detective-Sergeant Lamont before for its direct value as a contribu- Mr. Fraser, at the Kowloon Magis-tión to world disarmament, but tracy this morning, and charged also because it would bring with with house-breaking and theft. it immense relief in the financial Tanng Kwan-yau was charged | burdens which are crushing down with breaking into two houses in taxpayers, threatening, by their Tung Chof and Yu Chow Streets, weight, to clog and even bring to of different dates and stealing a standstill the whole of industrymum tonnage for military aeropl goods to the value of $280. He Denting with the naval proposals anes, Continental internationalisa- was additionally charged with Sir John Simon said: "I entirely tion of commercial transport aer- having broken into 161, Tung Choi agree that substantial proposals Street, with second defendant and in the realm of naval disarmament planes, the fixing of a maximum atenling goods to the value of $82. are required. I doubt whether the tonnage for civil aeroplanes not in- ternationalised, and the adoption Both accused admitted the proposals just indicated are
of measures concerning the pri charges.
sonte respects adequate and in
The following table issued by the Sergeant Lamont said the ac-other respects appropriate to the rate manufacture and sale of Kwangtung River Conservancy Com cused were arrested in the street varying circumstances of the dif- Minister, Lord Londonderry, is un-in English feet on the dates named aerial armament. The British air mission shows the height of water with a quantity of goods. A feront unval powers. There are number of paw tickets found in not two men in the world better dertaking an immediate considera- in the West, North and East Rivers:
tion of the proposals, said he their possession led to the dis- acquainted with the second of
record, on record. 21 covery of the other goods.
these dificulties than President believed they would be more accep-west Blver at
table than the first French proposi- Shlubing ** 4-417 The first defendant was Ron-Hoover and Mr. Hamaay MacDon- tion. He emphasised, however, haren +-26.4
North River at tenced to one year's hard labourald. The Washington and London that the normal development of North Alver at on all three counts, while the naval treation are magnificent ex- civil aviation must not be ham- Recond defendant was sentenced to amples of successful effort to tran- pered.-British Wirelcas.
disarma- six months.
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