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VICTROLAS

The Chipa Mail.

March 16, 1923, Temperature 62.

No. 18.826 五拜體 號六十月三年三十二百九千一英

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Barometer 29,90

Rainfall 0,00 inch.

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1923.

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

(Reuter's Service the China Mail.)

SMUGGLED DRUGS.

SEQUEL TO HONGKONO ŞEIZURĖ.

HARDWARE MERCHANT JAILED.

LONDON, March 15.

A hardware merchant, Howard Montague Fogden Humphrey, was fined £200 and sentenced

Humidity 83.

March 16, 1928, Temperature 60.

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THE DOLLAR.

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BRITISH ARMY.

EXCEPTIONALLY WEAK AT THE

MOMENT."

MECHANICAL TRANSPORT INSTEAD OF HORSES.

LONDON, March 15.

to six months' imprisonment in the second division, army estimates, Lt.-Col. Guinness said that the pre- In the House of Commons; Introducing the the maximum penalty, at the Guildhall for unlawfully sent army establishment was sufficient to deal with, procuring morphine, heroin and cocaine for a com- certain standing risks of the Empire in Asia and pany in Amoy, contrary to the Dangerous Drugs elsewhere, if the risks materialised singly, but if Regulations. The accused pleaded guilty they materialised simultaneously we were at pre- The prosecuting counsel stated that evidence sently not in a position eventually to deal with the leading to a cpaviction was secured when a Japan situtation. We were exceptionally weak at the ese named-few was arrested aboard the steamer moment owing to the smallness of the reserve and “Mishima Maru" in Hongkong on October 11 last it was intended therefore directly to enlist ten year with 2,400 ounces of morphine and 2,500 ounces thousand war-irdined men in a Class "B" reserve, of cocaine concealed in furniture.

[Cho Yu-kin, a Korean, was fined $25,000 and sentenced to six month's jail by Mr. E.W. Hamilton at the local magistracy last October in connection with the seizure of $28,000 work of cocaine and morphine aboard the Mishima Maru. The drugs were found packed in three cases of furniture shipped in London and were traced to the prisoner

means of the ship's manifests and other docu-! ments. Prisoner's counsel stated that Cho was a commission agent in Formosa and went to London last July to enquire into the medicine trade. The Superintendent of Imports and Export said it was a record seizure and he could easily pin evidence that the prisoner was the moving spirit in carrying out these transactions a long way' back.

IMPERIAL RELATIONS.

IMPORTANT NEW. ASPECT.

He mentioned that at present the tank models had a track endurance of a thousand miles compared with the war tanks' 150 and a speed of 25 miles com- pared with eight. It was hoped in the coming year to equip a whole tank battalion with a new light tank. and it had also been decided to substitute mechani- cal transport for,horse waggons in divisional trains.

RUHR EXPORT TAX.

ARRANGEMENT WITH HOLLAND.

THE HAGUE. March 15.

The Foreign Ministry announces that the Governments concerned have decided that the occupation authorities in Germany shall not levy a ten per cent. export tax on goods from occupied Germany provided the contracts thercanent were MELBOURNE, MARCH 15. mado before the ten per cent. tax was imposed, also The Federal Premier (Mr. Bruce) in a statement that the 90,000 tons of coal to be shipped monthly says that the action of Canada în concluding in-under a convention between Holland and Germany dependently of Great Britain a treaty direct with may be exported to Holland and will not be subject

United States (about halibut. fishing) has opened up a new and important aspect of imperial authorities.

to the export tax imposed by the occupation relationship the effects of which might be very far-

MÖRE GERMANS SHOT. reaching. He further emphasised the need for an early imperial conference where the whole question

PARIS, March 15. 7

Amesenge from Duesseldorf states that sentries" of imperial relationships can be fully discussed

shot dead three Germans áttempting to enter the locomotive sheds at Recklingausen,

the

HOUSING AT HOME.

NEW SUBSIDY SCHEME,

LONDON, March 15.

In order to encourage the provision of working class houses the Minister of Health, conferring with the representatives of municipal corporation's and associations, agreed to offer a subsidy of six pounds a house yearly for twenty years for a new non- parlour five-gomed houses. The municipal re presentatives agreed that this would enable building to be vigorously pressed forward

AUSTRALIA'S UNPEOPLED NORTH.”

OIL AND COTTON PROSPECTS.

MELBOURNE, March 15. Senator Pearce announced in the Senate that the Government were endeavouring to secure the services of world famous experts to report on the possibility of cotton-growing aid developing öll fields in the Northern Territory,

LAUSANNE TREATY.

TURKISH COUNTER-PROPOSALS

EXPECTED.

PROBLEM OF KENYA.

INDIA VITALLY INTERESTED.

-DELHI, March 15..

public meeting attended by prominent legislators. The situation at Kenya was discussed at a Mr. Sastri moved a resolution, which was adopted, declaring that India's vital interests are involved in the struggle of the Kenya Indian's and deciding to inform Mr. Bonar Law that India treated the Kenya

question as the touchstone of her position in the Commonwealth.

DUTCH EAST INDIES.

TAXATION FOR TWELVE MONTHS;

THE HAGUE, March 15. The First Chamber passed the East Indies budget. In the course of the debate the Minister for the Colonies stated that proposals to prolong the produce taxes for a twelve-month and to levy a tax on petroleum for a twelve-month would very shortly be submitted to the States. General. The Goverment, would abstain from tabling further Bills of this nature after the expiry of that period.

NEW EGYPTIAN CABINET.

LONDON, March 15. France and Italy have agreed to the British suggestion to send experts to London to discuss the Turkish counter-proposals which are expected in London to-day or to-morrow with a view to a re- sumption of the hausanne conference. It is expect-partly from the Nationalist agitation relative to the ed that the experts will meet next week.

· BRITAIN, PAYS UP.

WASHINGTON, March 15 Britain has made the first payment under the debt-funding agreement amounting to $4,128,000.

COMPANY REPORT:

HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE

The report of the Hongkong Fire Insurance Coy, Ltd. presenia- tion to the sharehold

on March 27

to be

CAIRO, March 15. Following a protracted political crisis arising

question of the sovereignty of the Sudan, Ibrahim Yehych Pasha has succeeded in forming a Cabinet. containing five members of the last one.

COLOMBO STRIKE VIRTUALLY ENDED.

COLOMBO, March 15 The coolles' sake is virtually ended.

Consulting Committee-Messrs. A. M. Bowes-Smith and H. W Sassoon resigned their seats on account of their departure from the Colony and Messrs. H Compton and A. S- Gubbay were invited to fill the vacancies.

The Hon. Sir Paul Chater, C..G.

Reserve Fund. It is proposed to appropriate $200,000.00 out of the profits of the year 1921 to the credit of this Fund. The Reserve will then stand at $1,800,000.00

Reinsurance Fund-It is propos ed to appropriate £19,60443, at exchange 2/24-$95,140,59, out of the profits of the year 1921 to tha

edit of this Fund The Fund Sir Rober will then stand at £175.989.17.10. Chapma Dividend. The General Mana Gubby gers and Consulting Committee White have pleasure in recommending,

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