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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1933.
SHANGHAI KOREAN MURDER WAVE MYSTERY
WIDE CORRUPTION
REVELATIONS AT FIRE CONSPIRACY TRIAL
London, Dec, 18. "Bribery and corruption in my business started before I was born," declared Leopold Harria, now serving a long sentence for arson, when bo continued. hla evidence to-day at the trial of ex- Chlef Fire Offkeer Miles, charged, with conspiring to defeat the enda of Justice. Harris sald he had morely carried on the practices al- ready existing when he took office.
"It was simply a question of our
| having to compete with the methods
of our competitors," «witness went. on.
SIX DIE IN SIX MONTHS
AN INTERPRETER SHOT DEAD
POLITICAL CRIMES?
VOCATIONAL TALKS. Do You Feel The Cold?
ON CIVIL SERVICE AND EDUCATION
Dr. X. II. Teno spoke on Sunday
Chill and colds aro so cany to aatch at this time of year, coming out of ataam-neated buildings into the open air, that every precaution should be taken to ensure immunity, even more susceptible to a drop in If you live in the troples you are at the Chinese Y.M.C.A, on Educa- temperature and it is even more tion as a. Vocation. The lecture important for you to guard against was the last of n series given dur- the effects of sudden chills. Ing the Vocational Guidanco Week.j A constant flow of rich red blood Dr. Tano warned followers or through the velns provides one of wquid-be followers of the field of the greatest resistances to weather education that it was not
changes, and to create auch. blood highly there is nothing better than Dr. remunerative work, though it was Williams' Pink Pills, These excellent dynamic for it dealt with people tonic pills supply the oxygen which is whose future and outlook of life so essential to + rich, healthy, might be molded by the educational abundant bloodstream and they have | training · they received. Conse- provod of the grostest value to If your quently, a tremendous responsibili-eufforors from anaemia. ty rested on the shoulders of the blood is thin and weak you cannot followers of education.
expect to possess the same resistance to climatic variations and you lay Dr. Tano contended that people yourself. open to all the Incasca tion as the last resort because they ahould not enter the field of educa- which an annemic condition portends.
Start today building up could not find anything to do in blood stream and thus fortify your other flelds. Before anyone en-systém against dangers of all kinds, tered the field of education as hismatic or otherwise: Dr. Williams life-work he should believe that casos of nervous disorders, digestive Pink Pills are equally effiencious in education answers He was a man named Oak Bing-ciety and that the profession was to and scinties, all of which originate in a need in so weakness, back pains, rheumatism, sin, an interpreter in the service his liking. He should keep in touch an impoverished condition of the of the French Concession Police and he was shot dead in the Con-with the latest Ideas and develop-nod. Women the world over know
CAalen by an unknown assassin. he should learn the practice of self- of their
ments in the field of pedagogy; and their especial value for the ailments
sex. Obtainable The man's official connexion has
of difféulty and chemists everywhere, caused the authorities to bring all denial in face.
hardship. the meeting.
Mr. Ngan Quan-yu presided at
Shanghai, Dec. 19. The sixth Korean to be He had never tempted people, he murdered in Shanghai with- added, but hnd waited until they in the last six months met hinted that they were susceptible, to money payments in return for his end in the carly evening services.
yesterday in the French Con- cession.
The Salvage Corps, as long as Harris had known it. had been corrupt, witness declared. He sald Miles had been aware of the corrupt practices in May, 1930. I was Miles who had advised him to get rld of an employee who had report ed corruption to him (Miles). Up to then Milles had not received
payments from Harris.
Referring to an unnamed Super- intendent of the Salvago Corps, Harris said he had received bribes ever since he became an officer in the Corps.
Counsel passed Harris a list of officers of the Salvage Corps and asked him to mark those he had mark the unbribed names, crossed bribed. Harris found it quicker to
out one, and passed It back.
The name crossed out was the son of a man who was bribed.
Harris related how he put £50 of his own money on
a dog for Miles. The dog had won and ho had pald Miles the money.
"What's the name of the dog?"
counsel asked.
"Golden Llar," replied Harris.- Reuter.
VESSEL VANISHES.
CREW OF THIRTEEN LOST
·ON NORFOLK COAST
London, Dec. 18.
their resources to bear in efforts
to trace the slayer, though hopes are not high.
POLITICAL MOTIVE?
your
from
1912, the competitive examination system was abolished. He believed Mr. Chen On Civil Service.
that since the establishment of the Yuan a few yours On Saturday night, Mr. William Examination While a politieni motive la sus-H. Chen spoke on Civil Service as pected, as in the majority of the
vanta Vocation.
was being recruited for Korean murders, the tragedy is
Mr. Chen defines civil service as time the government would select government servies, and that in duo enveloped in mystery and the
n
80, a better grade of civil ser-
French detectives who are are based on merits through ex-tead of the prevalling practice of holding government offices which all its employees on merits ins vestigating the crime have nothing of substantial nature
amination. Ho said the govern-
go upon ment in any country is a large nepotism.
No arrests have been made,
PROBABLY FOLLOWED.
Institution employing a large num- ber of people from different walks of life and of various grades of
"MY WEAKNESS"
Oak Bing-sin was visiting a training. He traced the historical friend's home, flo must have developement of the Chinese Civil 1a been followed and observation Service through the competitive !| kept outside the house. At 6.80 examination system and expressed p.m. he opened the door to leave regret that after the Revolution in and was immediately fired upon by an unknown person.
Several shots rang out and Onk fell to the ground mortally wound- ed. He was rushed to hospital, but) his case was hopeless from the first. He had a bullot in the | heart,--Reuter,
heard since she left Goole on that
It is foared that the cargo day but four bodies have been steamer, Broomfleat, with a crew found on the Norfolk conat, indicat of 13 men, was lost in the great ing that she foundered in the gale off the east coast of England storm in which the steamer Cul- on Wednesday.
mare also went down with a crew No nows of the vessel has been of 12 men-British Wireless.
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