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ORIENTAL
PLAMING
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THE HONGKONG
Vanquished
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HAILE SELASSIE'S EXPLANATION
TWO ITALIAN ARMIES MEET
Jerusalem, May 10,
TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MAY 11,
COSTLY
LEAGUE
PENALTIES
FIGURES INDICATE
EFFECTS
1936)
Girl Claims
Woman Beat
Her Daily
TELLS STORY IN MAGISTRACY
ITALY'S EXPORTS in the witness box at the Central
VANISHING
The war the Italians waged In
Geneva, May 10. The results of sanctions against Ethiopia was ended by thele" uso of poison gas, against which it was obtaly are shown in a report issued by viously impossible for his troops to
the League of Nations Secretariat, in fight, declared Emperor Haile Selas which returns from 43 countries sp sie of Ethiopia, in his first statement plying these penalties show that their since the flight from Addis Ababa was less than half that of the same trade with Daly in February, 1936, Rentor.
month of the year previous.
ARMIES CONTACT.
-Djibouti, May 10, The northern and southern Italian armies, the one led by Marshal Pietro Badogllo, newly proclaimed Viceroy
other
General Rodolpho Graziani, have root at ho
The Italian troops occupied the principal points of the Addis Ababa Djibouti Railway, and consequently the French Senegalese troops, who had been sent to guard the are paring to return to Djibouti.
Most of the Italian army's supplies will now be transported over this railroad line-Reuter.
contact at Diredawa.
SHIP CAPTAIN'S CLAIM
ALLEGES WRONGFUL
DISMISSAL
An action, claiming $612.50 salary, Was brought before Mr. Justice J. J. Hayden at the Summary Court this morning by Michael Mitro- Lanovich Affanassief, master mariner, against the On Steamship Com- Yiu-chal, the manag and
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ang
Ing partner thereof.
Mr.
plat. McCallum appeared for the
but. the
defendants were not represented. The second de
legally fendant, who said he represented both himself and the company, denied that he was
managing
partner.
the
pany to manage its
business in
the
The figures for March, 1930, are not yet complete. Up to now nine- teen countries show that their ex- ports to Italy have dropped from $10,000,000 (US. currency) in March, 1035, to $5,500,000 in March, 1936.
Their imports, at the same time, dropped from $7,000,000 to $2,000,000, totalled $8,800, compared with $2, British imports for March, 1936, 900,000 in March of 1935. Exports dropped from $2,000,000 in March,
$267,000 March of this year.-Itouter Special.
HONGKONG TRIP FOR EVIDENCE
A WOMAN'S claim for dam-
ages against the Australian Oriental Line, Ltd, has been postponed to allow evidence to be taken on commission in China as to whether the doc- trine of "common employment" rules in Hongkong.
Annie Olivia Henderson, who was a musician on the Taiping, alleges that she was returning to the ship, while Mr. McCallum said the plaintif it was anchored in Hong- was engaged by the defendant com kong Harbour in 1933, and matter of getting freight, crew and that while attempting to steamers. The parties entered into board the gangway, she fell แ contract on December 30 last whereby the plaintiff was to receive into the water. 3175 a month if there were no steamer in port and $360 if there wOTD, In the month of January, the plaintif was paid $175 because there was no steamer, but in the mildle of Febru- ary a vessel arrived and from then the plaintiff's salary was increased to $350, according to the agreement. At this time, however, the plaintiff was told that this services were no longer required, and he therefore brought the claim which was made up of $282.60 as balance of his salary for February
and $350 as his salary for March, in lieu of notice.
REORGANISATION Plan
As a result of the immersion, she claims that she suffered great pain of body and mind, and had been and was still unable to attend to her business and profession of a musi- clan,
The Australian Oriental Line, Ltd., deny all Miss Henderson's allegations, and, as an additional plen, sei out that the doctrine of common employment" in Hong- kong bars Miss Ilenderson from proceeding..
Brietly, the doctrine of "common As far a
as the second defentant was employment" sets out that an em- concerned, Mr. McCallum continued, | ployer is not liable for the negligent he held himself out as the sole proact of an employee resulting in an
rietor, the financier and munnger injury to a fellow-employee.---- of the company.
Giving evidence, the plaintiff said when the steamer Yue Wan On ar-
rived in Hongkong on February 16, he was told by the second defendant that he could send the vessel away
could not because he had trouble with Messrs. Wallem and Co, and could not obtain coal for it. Witness
Vitness replied that in that case it was of 10
no use to keep the office open, whereupon the second de- fendant said he would reorganire the company and asked him to wait two or three days for his salary. Sub- received a letter sequently ha terminating his servlees. No reason was given for such a step.
The case
adjourned until Wednesday.
WEY
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Lakehurst, N. J., May 10. The ground crew pumped 1,100,000
polin, Field Marshal von Hindenburg, to-day, and loaded the big ship with 6,600 gallons of fuel preparatory to the raturn voyage pcross the Atlantic.
mit that the doctrine of common Miss Henderson, who does not at employment is in force in Hong- kong, also denies that the doctrine. applies in her case.
FIGHTING CANCER
SUCCESSFUL CURE OF ANIMALS
A little girl told a pathelle story
Magistracy this morning when Mr. Balfour heard evidence in the remand cose in which Kong Yeung, widow, was charged with keeping an, un- registered mul-tsal at 10, Wing Li Street, and with ill-treating the girl.
The girl, Mak Lin, 14, related to the Court that she lived with the de- fendant whom she addressed as "Yee
Mu,"
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"My molher owed her money and I was given to deferidant as security," she said. "I regard myself as "mui-tsal," I went to her place when
was four years old. She asked me to pick up things and Bell them. received no money from her. She calls me Ah Lin. A few days ago I reported to Central Police Station that I was a mut-tral and that the defendant had assaulted
my. Although it is my desire to return to my mother, I am unable to do so."
Defendant put severat questions to the girl who admitted that whe addressed. defendant's son "brother."
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Defendant! She was presented to me as a daughter by her mother, who noticed that I had only two sons. Her mother had tried to give her away previously. The girl had hever
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prepared a meal for me or washed RICHARD DIX in
clothes,
Witness: Sometimes I prepared tea, but I never washed clothes.
Defendant claimed that the girl had never swept the floor or been sent out to buy things.
BEATEN EVERY DAY
Witness (crying): If I could not make enough profit out of selling vegetables, I was beaten. Everyday she beat me with a cane.
Defendant: She was arrested aut brought to police station last year for lighting in the street. She also
broke her aunt's inde bangle.
Li Nul, mother of the girl, of 52, family of three daughters, and Mak Bridges Street, testifled she had 11 Lin was the fourth. Mak Lin
Wild given to the defendant as a daughter in 1926. Witness received $50 and vinegar"
money. Witness returned the defendant when Mak Lin went to de- money she owed tendant, Last year
witness's daughter visited her once. Witness regarded Mak Lin as. an adopted daughter, but she would like her to
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The hearing was adjourned until to-morrow morning the mean- ime, a deed of presentation is to be translated.
Inspector H. W. Fraser, Mul Ta Inspector, is conducting the pro- secution.
Forged Ten- Cent Notes
MAN CAUGHT WITH
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Appearing before Mr. B. Hinworth TO-MORROW MAJESTIC
E.
at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, Ip Wan, 30, and Lam Pul. 36, were charged with the possession of 1,000 forged ten-cent banknotes
of the Kwangtung Provincial. Bank at the Kowloon Canton Railway Station May 9.
Det.-Sergt. A. Kinnear snid first Soudant had been searched at the a Customs Onicer, and the Batlon by a notes, in bundles of 100, were found in the false bottom of a small wooden box. Defendant
ticket to unt had Shicklung but no genuine money, and he declared that he was employed by second defendant, who was later
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arrested and charged. However, the police police had no case against him, and asked for his discharge, which was granted.
New York, May 10. Several types of malignant cancer growth in animals can be destroyed by injections of a typhoid bacillus filtrate, Dr. Mendel Jacobi of Beth-El Hospital reported recently in the American Journal of Cancer.
His Worship remarked that he re- Although this
this method of
of curing cancer still is in
the animal arded the case as very serious, and if the notes had been distributed, experimentation stage, it is reported they would have caused no end of that it had been used on one hopeless hardship to the people in the coun- caso of human cancer when the try. He considered that it was up patient was moribund. An autopsy to the authorities in the Colony to revealed that the tumour had been stop it. He sentenced first defendant virtually
destro hasizor,
to six months' hard labour. Dr. Jacobl
however,
done before it will be known whether the method can be used beneficially in the treatment of human cancer.
The report's conclusions were base on Dr. Jacobi'e experiments with 120 animals and three types of tumour, each chosen for its "high growth energy and degree of malignancy." Seventy; animals were treated with the filtrate. Fifty were left untreated for purposes of control,
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All the untreated animals died of Captain Lehmam
and Captain oer in about three weeks, Dr. Jacobi reported. In the 70 Injected Eckener flow to New York to-day with typhoid bacillus the tumour be where they were the guests of honour gan breaking up within a few hours. at a testimonial dinner and are going Eventually all traces of cancer dis to Washington: to President
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For impersonating a police officer, Fung Lol, 20, was fined $200, or twe months' imprisonment, by Mr. Mac- fadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning.
Detective-Sergeant Goodwin sald defendant stopped a small boy in Tal Nam Street, Shamshulpo, yesterday a pawnshop and de- morning outside the
manded. to search the boy, who had Mr. Balfour, at the Central Police
To be effective an injection first just pawned some clothing for his Court this morning, announced that must made
mother for 50 cents. The boy be In the tumour iteclf, he is going to increase the fine for followed by a general injection came
came frightened and ran away, De-. offenders who damage growing trees, through the vein of the abdominal fendant was alleged to have followed Wong Chok, 84, was fined $10, or, in wall about a dng later. The local him. The mother then came on the default, three weeks' imprisonment injection must precede the general fendant, was chasin her son. and Yu Li-chat, 34, coolle, was fined the report said, and neither has been $5 for damaging trees on the hillside found elective without the other replied that he was a policeman. An at Kennedy Road. The latter, defen- United Press,
Indian constable, whose attention had dant stated he gathered the leaves for
been drawn by the commotion, asked medicinal purposes, as he had an itch.
for defendant's Identlication card but His Worship agreed that might be so.
he was unable to produce.It. Sub-Inspector ff. G. Hallam prosecul
Sergeant Goodwin sald defendant BRANKLIN, nt had two previous convictions,
Hongkong..
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