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HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1928.

BRITISH TRADE. HEAVY PENALTY.

Country Returning To Hungarian Writer And

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CYCLE INDUSTRY.

Britain Leads In Motor And Pedal Cycles.

London, Yesterday.

It is suggested that it would

1914.

Appeal Court.

REVISED SENTENCE.

Quarter Of A Million Pengoes For The Treasury.

Budapest, Yesterday. The Court of Appeal has reduc-

the

MANILA FEARS.

Water Shortage Is Threatened..

· ENGINEER ALARMED.

Faucets At Public Baths And Laundries To Close.

Manila, May 6.

City Engineer Santiago Artiaga not necessarily be advantageous 'ed the sentence on Hatvany to contemplates taking steps to re- for the manufacturers to estab-four years' imprisonment and a duce to the lowest minimum pos- liah in Britain systems for mass fine of 6,000 pengoes with ten 'sible the water consumption of production of common qualities years' deprivation of political the city government as a measure of steel products. It is declared rights along with payment of a of economy. that, the position of industry is quarter of a million pengoes as Mr. Artinga was alarmed yes- improving, manufacturers being damages to treasury.terday over the increase in con- convinced that Britain has got Reuter.

sumption reported to him by the back to the normal rate of steady [A Reuter

Sanitation, telegram, dated Superintendent of increase that obtained before Budapest February 2, stated:— Transportation, Parks and Ceme-

Louis Hatvany, the famous teries, for last month. It is noted that the motor in-writer and politician, was sen-' Economy in water consumption dustry is improving and that Bri- tenced after a one-day trial to is contemplated, because the city tain is likely to lead the world in seven years' imprisonment, a government has to pay water production of motor cycles, the fine of 4500, the payment of charges in accordance with the only serious competitor being the £17,500 to the Treasury, the pay- contract signed by it and the United States. Britain also lends ment of the costs of the prosecu- Metropolitan Water District. in pedal cycles, Germany coming tion and loss of political rights According to reports received next. Great progress has been for ten years.

by Mr. Artiaga yesterday, the made since the war in electrical These drastic penalties were 'city's water consumption last manufacturing,

The output of inflicted in consequence of writ- month amounted to 78,785 cubic lamps has been better since ings criticising the "White re- metres, or 20,589 cubic meters the war than before and exports gime" in Hungary while in exile greater than the February con- of telegraph and telephone instru- after the downfall of the Com- sumption.

ments and apparatus have increas-munist regime. On return from The City Engineer will order ed. The export of electric lamps exile Hatvany was arrested and that some of the faucets, at the has more than trebled in the same tried on a charge of damaging public baths and laundries be clos- period. We have regained supre- the good name of Hungary ed, A general notice about the macy in shipbuilding. The ton abroad.] nage launched in 1927

rose to nearly fifty-four per cent, of the world's output-British Wireless Service.

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THE SCAPEGOAT.”

CARRYING CONTRABAND OPIUM AT 10 CTS. PER TAEL..

COUNSEL'S PLEA.

A Chinese named Ho Yung was, this morning, charged by Chief Preventive Officer Clark, before Major C. Willson, with the unlaw- ful possession of 140 taels of pre- pared, non-Government oplum.

Mr. J. M. d'Almada Remedios, who appeared for the defence, saldi that having regard to the circum- stances, under

which the accused was found with the opfum, he had

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FOKI & DYNAMITE.

200 STICKS REMOVED FROM A QUARRY,

TWO MONTHS' JAIL.

For being in unlawful posses- Nice, Yesterday, sion of 200 sticks of dynamite Prince Jean Kropotkine, nephew a quarry foki of Tai Wan, was of the well-known anarchist, was this morning, at the Kowloon Mr. W. involved in a street brawl last night, Magistracy, before with the result that some Ameri. Schofield, sentenced to two months' imprisonment, with the 'alternative of $100 fine.

IT MAY RAIN,

N.E. winds, moderate to fresh, cloudy, probably rain later, is the official weather forecast until noon to-morrow.

A fresh anticyclone has deve de (Mr.loped over N. China and a

pression covers Japan.

The typhoon is situated 'more than 300 miles E.S.E. of Aparri, mov- ing north-east.

technical offence. He Remedios) proposed to put the facts of the case before his Wor- ship, and would ask him, in view of the peculiar circumstances of the case, to deal with. accused leniently.

the

Plea for Leniency.

The accused, Mr. Remedios said, was a runner to a broker. Yester- day he met an acquaintance named Wong San who told him that he had a friend who wanted to, buy shares,

According to Inspector James's evidence the defendant was scen by a constable walking along Tai Wan-road with a big sack on his back some time last night. The defendant was stopped and on in- vestigation it was found that the sack contained a number of sticks of dynamite.

At the Police station, Inspector James found out that the foki was ordered to take the articles to the Tai Wan beach by a man he could not define clearly or even was appeared to know. The foki was Ob-employed as a watchman to look after the dangerous goods stored in No. 77 magazine next to the China Light and Power Co., pre- mises at Hunghom.

Typhoon Warning. The following telegram received from the Manila servatory at 9 a.m. to-day:--

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The quarry master said that he went to Hong Kong at 3 p.m. yes-

and invited the accused to go to can sailors hit him on the head, torday and the foki was left in the Chung Kwok restaurant to

The blows were not heavy enough charge of the goods. On return- meet the prospective buyer. They to kill in the ordinary way, but the ing, he was notified by the Police went to the restaurant in the com-prince's skull had been trepanned of the arrest.

pany of three other Chinese, but during the war. The post-mortem Cross-examined, the master found that the man who wanted to revealed that he died from cerebral said that he did not know why buy shares was not there. They haemorrhage.

the foki took the dynamite or for The prince fought under General, whom.

sat in a room for a while waiting

PROPAGANDA'!

tence was imposed.

CONSPIRACY."

for Wong San's friend, after which Wrangel against the Bolsheviks. Accused was found "guilty," Wong asked. the other three men to He was lately employed at a film of unlawful possession of dan- go and look for the prospective studio as an electrician-Reuter. gerous goods, and the above sen buyer. After the accused and Wong were left alone in the room, the latter put before the accused a proposition to carry contraband lopium, offering him ten cents per tael. Whilst this conversation was going on, Revenue Officers raided the room. Wong, escaped but the accused was detained, and when the oplum was found in the room he was arrested.

SOVIET'S PERNICIOUS METHODS IN EGYPT.

Cairo, Yesterday.

The documents seized in connec

SEQUEL TO THE ARRESTS AT DONETZ COAL BASIN,

Moscow, Yesterday.

As a result of the preliminary

tion with the arrest of Communists enquiry into the charge framed as

Mr. Remedios suggested that the In Cairo, none of whom were "a revolutionary conspiracy to accused had been made: the scape Egyptiana, show that those arrast-wreck the coal mines of Shakhty p.m.goat, and he had advised the accused were in direct relations within the district of the Donetz coal From this source they basin," 50 Russians and 3 Germans ed to plead guilty because he had Moscow. admitted to C.P.O. Clark that he received funds and propaganda to will be charged with planning an had intended to carry the opium Induce Egyptian youths to go to economic counter revolution."- for Wong San.

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it could be said that the accused

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Mr. Remedios replied that accust

KING'S BIRTHDAY. Van

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HOUSE

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ASSASSINATED?

UNCONFIRMED REPORT: AS TO SENOR. GOMEZ.

New York, Yesterday. There is an unconfirmed report; that Wong San had a customer for Invitations are issued for are that Senor Gomez, the President of shares, and it was afterwards that ception at Government House on Venezuela, has been assassinated: tor Murphy for allowing the base the evening of June 4 at 9.80-Router's American Service, ment of the house to be used for o'clock in celebration of the birth:

the question of the opium was day of His Majesty the King brought.up. Mr. Remedios added 200

that he thought Mr. Clark would roman

A Chinese trader, living at No. 181, Des Voeux-road West, report

agree with him that the accused the accused was in the room with ed to the police on Monday that at was more of a fool than a knave. the opium, and had admitted that 5 pm, he entrusted to two Replying to the Magistrate, he was going to carry it for ten coolles 200 cattles of salt dih 3.30 pm. C. P. 0. Clark said that Mr. cents per taol.

worth $60 and a box of clothing, Remedion had told the Magistrate Major Willson imposed a fine of worth $92, to take on board the s all that he could have said about the $5,000, or, in default, six months" "Charles Hardouin," and the men muttare, but the fast, remained that hard labour, me

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