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OPIUM CHARGES,

DID DEALINGS CONCERN

HONGKONG?..

·LEGAL ASPECTS.

SATURDAY,

KOWLOON TREES.

NATHAN RD. TO REMAIN "UNTOUCHED,

A WELCOME DECISION.

NE 26, 1926.

FRENCH FINANCE.

NEW BROOMS FOR M. CAILLAUX.

Paris, June 45

An parly indication of M.

At the continued hearing yester- The lopping of trees at certain Callaux's intentions to seek new day afternoon of charges of exten-

brooms is given by a draft decres sive dealings in spium brought spots along Nathan Road, Kow-replacing M. Robineau, Governor of against Lo Yau-houng and Yu Yau-loon, has raised in the minds of

the Banque de Franco by 'M. heung, Mr. J. D. Loyil, Superinton-Kowloon residents hopes that such Morenu, who la at present a Direc- dent of Imports and Exports activity may be taken as indicator of the Banque d'Algorie.—

Department, again gave evidenca

In answer to Mr. Lindsell, theing the determination of the Gov. Magistrate, witnese auld that he ernment to abandon the scheme was satisfied that the dealings retentatively brought up a short ferred to Were in opfum.

time ago for their destruction.

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WHITE AUSTRALIA.

Upori enquiry, the "China Mali”

THE POLICY EXPLAINED, was informed that the lopping is being carried out to render more. safe the institution of regular Commonwealth she has realsted Ever since Australia became 2

stopping places for 'buses, regula-alien immigration, and, as long ago

Mr. Lo The books show a prima facie case that there have been extensive dealings in opium between Swatow and Tung Hing Is there any evidence to show that any of those dealings took place in Hongkong?

Mr. Lloyd: A man might have tions concerning which are shortly sa 1901, she embodied her unani- possession of it and be in Hong-to come into force, kong and have a stock somewhere elso. In that case he could issue A delivery slip; and order a cer- tain amount to be delivered to some place.

schemes which are said to be It is thought that certain afoot for traffic diversion in cer- tain instances, will obviate the Mr. Le As Superintendent of necessity for removing the trees, Imports and Exports you are bring.in fact is practically a certainty that the trees will not be interfer ing this prosecution against the second defendant for dealing ined with, a decision which will be oplum. The books show a prima welcomed by all who have an eye facle case, but is there any evidenca to their aesthetic value. to show that any part of these doniings, payments, if you like, took place by the second defendant in Hongkong?

He is a very confidential and superior foki and draws a high salary in the firm. From the docu- ments, is shown that he was left in charge of the business when the master was away.

Further questioned about the second defendant in relation to the dealinga, Mr. Lloyd said it was his impression that wherever the deals took place they were for the bene fit of the firm in Hongkong.

Formosa took a leaf out of the book of Hawaii and the breeding of such fish constitutes one of

Mr. Lloyd: The second defendant their most efficacious anti-is a foki of the first" defendant. malarial measures, Shanghai, too, has introduced the fish to China and it is from this source, perhaps, that Hongkong may ob- tair supplies, to compare the voracity" of the top minnow with that of cur local product," the "Paradise fish." Some of these latter were handed over to the Botanical and Forestry Depart ment but no statement has yet been made in public by any of our public health officials with regard to the result of the experiment. Is it too much to hope that this LOCAL MALARIA PROBLEMS. matter will be given a little more publicity through the agency of our Sanitary Board meetings?

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Hongkong; Saturday, June 26, 1926.

The result of the local experi- ments with regard to mosquito eating fish may or may not be con- sidered convincing enough to justify their introduction in large quantities to our local pools and streams but in that they concern ¡preventative measures against a disease to which tropical condi- tions render the human system particularly susceptible, they will be awaited with interest. One of the most useful discoveries of the 19th century

was that of the nature of malaria.. with its kindred diseases yellow fever, dengue and the like, borne from one to another by the body of the

mosquito." The cause of malaria of all sorts, is due to the presence in the blood of multitudes of

THE SQUIRE CASE

GUILTY OF NEGLIGENT DRIVING.

The

$76 & $25 FINES.

case concluded at the Magistracy yesterday afternoon in which Mr. J. S. Squire and Mr. D. E Western were charged with reck

less driving.

Mr. Lo: The books do not show that the transactions themselves were taking place in Hongkong?.. Mr. Lloyd: My view is that they were partly in Hongkong and partly elsewhere.

Mr.

The ouse was adjourned until next Friday afternoon. Lindsell said he did not propose to grant a fortnight's adjournment in the case of the first defendant,

and said that if he did not appear next Friday his bail would be

estreated.

H.K.'S VISITORS.

"PRESIDENT JEFFERSON'S”.

PASSENGERS.

The "President Jefferson" ar- rived from Seattle and Shanghai yesterday, with 380 tons of cargo for Hongkong, 446 bags of mail and a number of saloon passen- here and gers disembarking

The Magistrate, Mr. R. Emany for Manila. Lindsell, amended the charge in the course of the proceedings to one of driving negligently and, having convicted, he fired Mr. Squire $75

and Mr. Western $25.

Among those landing here were Mr. Bishop, manager of the Burma Oil Company, en route to Rangoon accompanied by Mrs. Bishop and family. Professor Ross "Final evidence given included W. Marriot, en route to Java and that of Inspector Alexander, of the Sumatra to complete scientific ob- Traffic Department who when ask-servations commenced last year ed said that anyone with know by delegates of the Swarthmore

GREAT UNREST IN KOREA,

GENERAL UPRISING

PLANNED.

mous views on the subject in the Immigration Act of that year. fect Asiatics, and the only question She had previously decided to re- had bean how to do it decently. She did not wish to affront innocent Orientals by specifying them in prohibitory clauses, and so, at Joseph Chamberlain's suggestion, she adopted the "dictation test" devised by Natal, which gives the nationals of every land van equal" chance. Officials wore then left the discretion of dictating "not fewer than "fty worda in a prescribed language" to applicants for entry. This enabled the Government later to frame subsidary "Gentlemen's agreements" with countries whose technical or educated classes it did not want to exclude, while the real Tokyo, June 8,

"object of the Act remainded clear Plots are being unearthed almost and paramount. Witness Japan's. daily showing a general uprising constant effort consequently to in the brewing for Korea and which raise the embargo, which culminat- is scheduled to take place on the ed at Versailles in her claim that, tenth of this month on the occasion members of the League being of the Royal funeral. Guarded ad-equal, each should, therefore, be vices from Seoul and elsewhere free to enter the othar's shores. show excitement throughout the

For The Best. country.

But 'Australia's policy Was Internal dissension in a Korenn neither factious nor short-sighted" camp gave an inkling to the police) She did not wish to offend anybody, who immediately raided the head- but she had the experience of other quarters of the Independents on communities to warn her against Sunday, rounding up nearly a hun-rash racial experiments. She had dred ringlanders. Much evidence before her the spectacle of huge was seized, including many bales of slum areas in Europe when she re- Communistic literature intended fused to repeat low wages in the for distribution in Japan.

Commonwealth and legislated for

The police yesterday wero a a high national standard of living: busy lot filling the jails with about and she saw the insoluble problem three hundred suspects. Not only of a piebald population in the Seoul but other Korean centres Ere United States, when she decided to seemingly seething with suppress-keep out Yellow people and to work ed excitement and in consequence, out a White destiny alone. It the authorities are ranking every might mean delay in development possible preparation to smother any

and a stiff setback to economic pro- uprising. the moment it appears, 'gress, but I spelt a unity of poli- The two Korean. plotters taken.tical and social purpose, and a free- from the Shuntien were membera dom from the distractiong and of this insurrection party. And following this incident, four. Korean leaders were arrested in Shanghai on Monday, one com- mitting suicide at the Japanese Consulate.

During a call of condolence at the Seoul Palace soon after the death of the Royal member an assassin was shot while in the act of attempting to shoot one of the visiting Japanese, the would-be assassin taking him for Governor General Salto.

crosscurrents of polyglot counsels. tralian nationality too high to open and divisions. She valued Abs-

it wholly theira; and she was right. it to exiles who could never, make

in refusing to debase the coin of commonwealth citizenship.

"Aussies” and Us. Estrangement with Japan was ethnological at Arat, but became. political after the Russo-Japanese war, when the Yellow Peril seemed a real one to the Antipodes. But this feeling has diminished since the Washington Conference and ite Imitation of armamenta, Japan

minute parasitie animals which at ledge of the spot would not expect | College, and Mr. Lo Kan of the CURIOUS CRAFT IN SINGAPORE then agreed to respect the rights

to and Causeway Bay on the corner of the tramway shelter free from traffic at that time of the right. It was very unaufe both during day time and night for motor cycles to drive in close proximity to each other particularly if going at a speed of 30 miles an hour,

Hongkong Amusements from Shanghai, where he has been con- ducting business with regard to

the rental of films.

Passengers en route for Manila include Captain W. Bergin of the US Army from vacation in Japan, Mr. L. F. Half of the Métropolitan Museum of Art in New York, a prominent Egypto logist making a tour of the Orient, Mr. Bernabe Africa, a prominent Manila attorney returning from a

HARBOUR.

of the British Empire in relation to Australia and Now Zealand, and to leave domestic affairs to the discro- A curious craft with a long tion of each Dominion. And, black funnel projecting from a although at first, to Australia's capacious huil is at present lying chagrin, Japan kept German islands in the inner harbour oppcelte north of the Equator Australia Johnston's Pier, Singapore.

She is the ferry bont "Kalang,” and she is destined to spend the rest

became in part reconciled to this deal of the Allies when she realland that it meant greater security than

of her life plying up and down any alternative pian. For Japan Sydney harbour.

undertook not to fortify theno islands, and Australia was, there

The little craft is only 210 tons

Later the mosquito may bite an-Western was due to the latter trip to the U.S., accompanied by net, and she has a precarious three fora, under no compulsion in return

intervals breed in prodigious num- hers with corresponding but varied discomfort. The piting of a man having malarial trouble by a mosquito of a particular kind (known as the Anopheles), the scientista inform us, transfers one

In evidence on his own behalf Mr. or dozens of these creatures to Squire said that on passing the Polo his own body thus causing it, no ground their speed was possibly 25 doubt, lamentable discomfort. miles an hour. The collision be- tween his machine and that of Mr.

feet of freeboard, but she has to fortify the territory abe held other person to take the taste swerving. The cycles wore, pro-

Mrs. Africa, Mr. R. G. Burgess of evidently had calm weather on south of the Equator; and is to-day out of the mouth." "The next vic-ceeding about seven feet from each the Vegetable Oil Corporation of the voyage out from Liverpool, for securer than if she and Japan had tim receives a bite, and perhaps

other.

Manila and a number of teachers she left on April 21-remarkably both armed and equipped each on In reply to Mr. Lindsell, he said newly engaged in the United good time for a little vessel of ten

her side of the "line." Moreover, a third, thus passing malaria he did not consider it dangerous to States, to join the Philippines knots which had to call at Maita,

the economic, need for native labour along through the agency of the drive seven feet behind another

Education Bureau.

Port Said, and Colombo on the way, in Northern Australia is less. mosquito's body. The problem of cycle under the conditions. In

Only half the voyage has been apparent than it was. This seemed the cure of malaria is, for the reply to another question, he said

A MAN OF PEACE

completed, and the skipper and once vital to the product of certain he had been driving a motor cyclo-

his crew of Afteen now have to raw materials, but these have most part, bound up in the skill

since 1914. of the medical scientist in poison-

Marion, Ohio, May 31.--Presi face the difficult task of navigating forged ahead on white labour with As for the Mr. Western gave corroborative dent Harding as a "man of peace" the "Kalang" through the islands of unexpected, impetus,

south of the Continent, it has little ing malaria with the least damage evidence and submitted that if he was the theme of Vice-President the Malay Archipelago, through to the human host, salts of quinine had been driving at the speed Dawes address, dedicating the the Torres Straits, and down the having been evolved in this con- have been impossible for him to the late president. It is estimated

which had been alleged it would great white marble memorial to coast of Australia to Sydney. nection. Prevention, however," is pull up in the distance he did. that 60,000 person heard the ad- better than cure and, quoting Mr. A. R. Paul, who was riding dress and witnessed the ceremony from one of our own medical men, pillion on Mr. Western's machine of laying the cornerstone.

at the time, also gave similar ovį. "War in the Pacific between the "the way to put an end to malaria dence with regard to speed and the United States and Japan or be Mrs. Baldwin, who has been But if Australis is to exclude is to extirpate the mosquito." nature of the accident.

tween any of the nations whose admitting a lifelong attachment to Asiatic (and even Maltese under Much has been done locally along

Mr. Lindsell convicted both de interests lie in the Pacific, was cricket, had a notable predecessor her embargo upon Southern Euro- the lines of the three ways of at- fendants of driving in a negligent made, virtually impossible by the in the wife of the twelfth Earl of peans), she should make all the manner, taking into consideration Four Power Treaty," said Vice- Derby, founder of the classic race reader to receive English emigrants tack on the mosquito, the draining the circumstances of the case. Mr. Fresident Dawes. He said that that bears his name. The Coun- of proved quality and worth, and should wholeheartedly co-operate and filling in of potential or Squire was driving at a higher President Harding had been the tees preferred cricket to horse with the Mother Country in improv- actual breeding places and the speed than he had said, and he inspiration of that treaty as well racing, and arranged many meming and extending schemes of was close behind the leading as the naval limitation agreement, orable matches by players of both laying of oll films on the surface. machine. That in itself was negli and ex-Secretary Hughes had sexes

colonisation.Empire Review. at her home at Wood. There are many bodies of water, gence. He had committed himself been the man who put the presi-mansterne. It was after one of however, in which neither of these by the fact that when the first dent's wishes into execution. these cricket festivala in 1777 methods can be of use and it is into it.

maching swerved he went straight. The Four Power Treaty," he that a newspaper, announced the

said, "is the best possible insur-engagement of the

Duke of in such cases that mosquito eat. In the case of the second defen-ance against war in the Pacific Hamilton and Miaa. Burrell, add ing fishes are the best resort. dant there was negligence because and has already proved its ing that "his Grace fell in love he was going at a spoed which made effectiveness in diminishing the with her at the cricket match at There are a good many kinds of him swerve to avoid a push cyclist. causes of misunderstanding and the Oules, when she took the bat in fishes which will cat mosquito If he had been going more slowly the sources of controversy, hand and get more notches than eggs or larva when they find it he might have worked out.

any other lady in the game."

United Fresa.

call for indentured helots where

THE CRICKETING COUNTESS.

wool wheat, and butter flourish; while Japan requires, so a matter of fact, nothing that Australiú pro- duces (except perhaps, fine wool). which she cannot secure from the mainland of China at loss expense.

A Memorial of Re-entry by the Crown on Inland Lot No. 2855 has been registered according to ins, also the cancellation of the Memorial of Re-entry on Inland Lot No. 2437, and a Memorial of Re entry by the Crown on Shaukiwan

Inland Lot No. 489.

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