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SERIOUS
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Prague, May 21.
Committee
The Sudelen German
SWATOW BOMBING REPORT
Government retained the Aylesbury| Beat in the Buckinghamshire electo- rate at to-day's by-election by greatly reduced majority.
Unconfirmed reports have reached That Japanese plancs The by-election WOS rendered in a communique alleges the Sudeten Hongkong necessary by the resignation of Mr. Germans have been "objects of uns severely bombed Swatow this morn- M. Beaumont, A sixty-four per cent. heard of attacks and provocations" Ing.
final figures and the authorities are charged with 1.M.S. Diana, which is doing duty electorate voted, the
failure to full their duty during the at the ort, had made no signal in being:
Sir Stanley Reed (Cons.) .. 21,605 disorders.
this connection up to the time of Bir. Atholl Robertson (Lib.) 10,751 Disturbances are reported from all going to preas, Mir. Reginald Groves (Lab.) 7,666 parts of the country.
The authorities are taking steps to Mounted police and gendarmes aro discover the facts and messages have In the 1935 General Elections the Goverment majority was 11.100uarding the headquarters of the been despatched to Swatow by pri- British Wireless.
German Party at Bruno where there vate interests who are much have been intermittent disorders all cerned, asking for information. day.
HONGKONG GUARDS AGAINST SMALLPOX
con-
Se
not
far there have been no replies, though Large numbers of factory workers left their work and assembled outside apparently communication has
been interrupted. the police station at Schodau, near Carlsbad. The gendarmes fired into the air and drove the people back with bayonets. It is unconfirmedly reported that several were injured. Germans at Kamotaw allegedly in- sulted Czech soldiers off duty and three were injured in the ensuing! fight. The police were called out to
NEW J.P.'S APPOINTED
Stricter surveillance will be main-get the soldiers back inte barracks, tained over the influx of refugees und-Reuter. visitors from Canton as a result of the spread of smallpox in that city.
No statistics of smallpox cases have ver been issued by the authorities in the Kwanglung provincial capital, but it is believed that deaths since the beginning of the year have been far in excess to those that have
the epidemic occurred during Hongkong.
In
AST 4 TIMES TO DAY free of smallpox and stringent pre- Dr. P. F. S. Court: Dr. G. V.
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COLONY'S REVENUE INCREASES
Hongkong's revenue is still buoyant. and if it maintains its present level for the rest of the year an anticipated Refelt of $3.125,000 will abnost certainly become a substantial plus.
A.the
sur-
Revenue for March totalled $2,424,- His Excellency the Governor has
Exper- been pleased to appoint the following 601, against $2,287,000 for the corres-
ponding period last year. to be Justices of the Peace for the diture in March was $2,429,380, com- Colony comparatively Official: Mr. V. C. Branson, M.C.;pared with $2,044,511 in the corres-
pending period Hongkong is now
last year. The actual yenr now totals $8,851,251, cautions are to be adopted to prevent Grimth; Mr. R. J. Minnitt; Mr. Crevenus for the first three months of Any recurrence of the disease through Mycock: Mr. H, 11. Fegr. Mr.
Pollard; bir. P. C. M. Sedgwick; Hon. which is $1.419,579 more than was importation from Carton or other in Dr. P. S. Selwyn-Clarke, M.C.; Mr. collected in the first quarter of 1937. fected allies.
Expenditure in the same period was Government C. G. Sollis; Mr. G. E. S. Upsdell. In this morning's
compared with $7,421.648 $7,050,302, Unofficial.Mr. D. Benson; Mr. Chau Gazette a notification declared Can-
Principal in revenue hon to be a place in which smallpox Shiu-n; Hon. Mr. S. 11. Dodwell; in the first quarter of 1837.
and Internal is prevalent, thus bringing visitors Mr. J. Finnie; Professor W, I. Ger- Wel increases t from that city within the scope of rard; Mr. W. R. De C. S. Mansfield: Revenue, the Post Offee and the
Mr. A. Morse; Mr. J. Petrie: Mr. Kowloon Canton Railway. the strictest health precautions
Seth; Professor R, K. M. Simpson; Dr. Wai-tak Woo, MR. KENNETH KEEN
TO APPOINTED IMPORTANT POST
D.M.S. TO TAKE COUNCIL SEAT Dr. P. S. Selwyn-Clark, Director Mr. Kenneth Keen has been ap- pointed Chief Assistant to the Secret Medical Services, has been ap- tary for Chinese Affairs, with effect pointed an Omcial Member of the Legislative Council, with effect from from May 14,
March 3.
'The appointment was gazetted this morning.
Mr. Keen Joined the Hongkong Civil Service on December 26, 1990, and was appointed Assistant to the S.C.A. on Moreli 01033. He was Police Magistrate at Kowloon from Novem ber, 1935.
Heavy increases in expenditure were shown by the Harbour Depart- ment, which expended $120,900 in March this year compared with $03.- 945 in the corresponding month last year; the Medical Department which expended $221,951 compared with $107,549 and the Police Department, which expended $307,630 compared with $263,088.
balance on The Colony's credit March 31 was $19,003,227, the highest of the oppointment Government Gazette it has been for several years, was given in this moming. The appointment has been approved by His Majesty the
Notification
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