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ENTICED AWAY, Boys' Clothing Changed in a Temple:
SMART POLICE WORK.
The maximum penalty of one year's hard labour was passed on a widów and a married woman, named Li Ol anil Chan Yan, respectively, at on Satur- the Kowloon Magistracy day.
when they were convicted by M. Whyte-Smith on a charge of kidnapping two Chinese boys, aged 6 and 9, from their parents at Yunnan Lane.
sented.
MOSCOW PARLEY.
Differences Between Soviet and Chinese. FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS.
Harbin, May 31.
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LETTERS & RADIO
SWEDISH POLITICS.
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POST OFFICE LIST
A General Post Oflee notifica- According to a telegram received tion gives the following unclaim- yesterday from Mr. Mo Teh-hufed correspondence, etc., waiting chairman of the Chinese Delega- at the Post Office, and also un- tion to the Chinese Eastern Rail-claimed radio, telegrams at the way Conference in Moscow, the Radio Telegraph Office, Govern-
ment Ballding:- Soviet Government has handed to Mr. Mo the official list of Soviet delegates who will participate in the Conference. The list includes the following names:
Sub-Inspector Evans prosecuted
Mr. Voslovsky, Chief of the on behalf of the Police, while the - defendants, both of whom appeared Eastern Department of the Com. in the dock, were not legally repre-missariat of Foreign Affairs and formerly Soviet Vice-Consuf in Both women pleaded:-"We have Harbin; Processor Pergament Ber not kidnapped the boys. Two men, latsky, a member of the Board of who are total strangers to us, told, Directors of the U.S.S.R. State us to take the two boys to Sum: Bank; Mr. Ismailoft a member of the Board of the C.E.R.; Mr. of the Chun."
Kantorovitch Secretary Commissariat of Foreign Affairs and a former Attache of the Soviet Embassy in Peking-
His Worship took that as a plen of "not guilty," and evidence was then called.
According to Mr. Mo's telegram the preliminary negotiations in- dicated a difference of opinion on the part of the Chinese and Soviet
Poste Restante.
R. S. Antindale, B. M. Armstrong, J. C. Broughan, C. H. Bond, C. L. Bowers, A. Bellin, H. L. Carnegic, Drewry, Miss Day, A. Evans 8.6. Golden Sea, J. S. Henderson, (Int: Export Co.), Q. O. Hoy, Mrs. E. Hansen, Leong Seng Hin & Co., D.
J. Lopes, H. R. Meier, Miss A. Mac- Donuiti, F. M. Macaraeg, Mrs. R. G. P. Perry, H. L. P. Stubbs, G. Sil- vestri, Truck and Tractor Appliance Co. Ltd., J. R. Thompson, Miss V. M. Wilcox.
Unpaid Correspondence, K. I. Seaholm.
Registered Articles,
M. Beraha, S. R. Bowlder, Gulam Mohayad Din, c/o Gulam Mustafa, Najput, Fee Sing Radio Co., R. Hos
Jan, Khair Mohamed Army Contrac tor, Antonio Timenez, Wang Ching Wei, Wong Tat King.
"He Is My Son," The first witness, Police Con stable Li Shing, stated:-"At 130 p.m. on Saturday, I was on duty on the Yaumati Hailway Sation. I saw over the control of the Special Ad-tovsky, c/o H. K. Hotel, Abdulla
buy.ministrative District, the Chinese the first defendant with the Wong tun, holding her hand, going, insisting that future relations on through the barrier to catch the, this question must be based on the I asked the Mukden agreement of 1924. It has train for Sum Chun. first defendant. Who is the boy? developed that the Soviet considers her reply the Habarovsk protocol signed at Be a my son, Where have you come from. I asked. the conclusion of the Sino-Russian as First defendant replied, From Can- complications late last year,
being firmly established and de- finely refuse to discuss questions at the Conference which the Soviet considers already solved in the Habarovsk protocol.
ton.
was
"The second defendant was follow ing the first defendant with the second boy, Leung Ngau. I asked the second defendant who the boy was, and she said, He is my nephew.
I asked the second defend ant where she was taking the boy She Said: The boy's father is in Canton. I disbelieved them and took them to the Mongkoktsui Police Sta- tion. On the way to the station 1 said: Look here, you must tell me
the truth, because your statements
later. Then can be verified
the
second defendant saidff Let me tell
you the truth now.
Two men hand-
od the boys to us to take to Sun Chun. They have given us $10 each for doing that.
It
Rights of Soviet.
also in reported that Mr. Karakhan, chairman of the Soviet delegation refused to discuss with Mr. Mo the question of the rights of the Soviet manager of the C.E.R. alleging that this question in the definitely settled
Karakhan Harbarovsk protocol. also insists that the question of parity on the part of the Chinese
Was
and Russian Staffs on the C.E.R. was settled in the Habarovsk pro- tucal.
In view of Mr. Kurakhan's de- finite refusal to discuss anything which he considers to have been- solved in the Habarovsk protocol it is believed that the further discus-
Toid What to Say, This concluded the evidence, and defendants intimated that what the sonstable had said,was true, and that also they had been told what to say: sions between the Chinese and
His Worship remarked that that was quite likely.
Radio Telegrams. 2622, from Tientsin.
0002, 6663, 7703, 0063, 3166, 6794, 1648, from Hoihow.
Kilbourne care Reighton Peniel from Shanghai.
Howard Chichibu Maru, from Canton.
Ying Pak-chuen, 297, Queen's Road Central, from Canton.
Valey, Peninsula Ruth Van Hotel, Kowloon, from San Fran cisco.
Barnheim, Repulse Bay Hotel, from Hollywood Calif.
3111, 6694, 0966, 1680, 0589, 0005, 0360, 5714. 5894, 0059,. 2699, 0342, 5714, from Shanghai. Ju Tai-soeng, from Turakan. 1360, from Swatow, 4885, from Liuchow. Yee Sheng Loong. from Am- penan.
SANITARY BOARD,
Soviet delegations will be strictly Mr. Wong Kwong-tin's
confined to the matter of land and
navigation,
the tele-
of China's question the and redemption of the railway by pur- chase from the Soviet Government.. In view of this situation, Mr. Mo has telegraphed to the Chinese Government as well as to Mukden for further instructions.-Canton News Agency,
The mother of Wong Mun, the water first lad, spoke of having missed her graphs and telephones controi son on Friday, and being summoned to the Mongkokisul Folice Station later on in the day, when she found her lost son, who had been missing since meal time in the morning. Similar evidence was given by the father of the second boy, while both speakers told the Court that their sons' clothing had been changed-by the kidnappers-a very practice.
common
"Fish Sweets." Sub-Inspector Evans intimated to
his Worship that there was evidence as
THE DETECTIVE WON!
I
Questions.
People's Party.
MR. ECKMAN PREMIER.
Stockholm, Saturday. Mr. Eckman, the leader of the
Cabinet, with himself as Prime People's Party has formed a new Minister and Minister of Defence, Baron Ramel as Foreign and Minister. Reuter,
A cable dated June 2 Stated:- The Cabinet has resigned. The crisis was due to the Gov- ernment's measures to assist agri- culture, which is very depressed, Arstly by the obligatory inclusion of a fixed proportion of Swedish wheat in all wheat milled in Sweden, and, secondly by raising
the duty on imported corn.
Both Chambers adopted the first proposal; but rejected the second.
The Socialists are the strong- est party in both Chambers, but are expected to decline Cabinet- making, and a non-party Ministry, Is probable.]
RECRUITING SLUMP.
44,000 Candidates Rejected.
for
the Regular from periodi-
A HIGHER STANDARD.
Recruiting Army is suffering cal depression.
Consequently, on April 1, the Anancial year, beginning of the the strength of the Army, inclu- sive of the British troops in India, was approximately. 10,000 below establishment.
The higher standard set for re- cruits-both physical and mental
has a tendency to lower the in- flow of candidates to the Colours. In 1911-12. out of 57.681 men served with notice papers, 30,358 were finally approved. Last year,
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Railway Tragedy at Shum 'Chun.
MOTHER KILLED.
A Chinese named Yau Kwai- ying, of Polo Village, Walchow, was brought to Kowloon on Satur- day morning suffering from grave injuries to his head and legs as a result of a courageous attempt to rescue his mother from death ut Shum Chun, the Chinese Section of the Canton-Kowloon Railway.
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over Black or Brown Boots from .5 rejected medical officers 18.000, and out of the 34.818 at- Children's Boots ur Shoes from $ 2.00
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'WONG SIU WOON the life of a soldier, with the ex-21, Pottinger St. ception of 83 returned as desert-
ers.
the 72,268
as compared The rejections, with the pre-war years, were bad in 1924-25, but not abnormal) Last year's figures did not show any improvement.
What happened to
for en- offered themselves who listment? There were rejected by recruiters or recruiting officers! for physical reasons before at- It appears that the pair were
fewer than 22,436. crossing the
the lestation no railway track.
The medical officera refected on- woman being ahead, shunting engine ran them down. other 16.387 for physical defects; The woman was killed instantane-1,000 failed to appear for attesta- ously, and the man suffered his tion, and for other than physical' injuries in trying to Save her. reasons 2,612 were turned away. He is now in the Kowloon Hos- The total casualties before attes- pital in a very serious condition. tation reached 42,430, so that the
attested
reached only
29,832. There were. after attestation, 1.701 rejections, 80 that out of 72,268, the Army could not ap- prove and pass on to the Colours more than 28,131.
It
that is officially stated among the factors affecting re- |cruiting are expectations of a
large increase of unemployment | benefit; the uncertainty as to the future of the Army owing to the publicity given to disarmament, and organised migration,
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to show that the two boys wore en-stole 94 cement sacks from the their homes on Foo Lung lorry depot at Cheung ticed away from Friday morning by an older lad, Lok Street, was at the Kowloon under the pretext that he would buy Magistracy on Saturday sentenced them some "fish sweets." The two to one month's hard labour.
the Yaumati Defendant was caught after a boys were taken to Railway Station, and on the way long chase by Sergeant Danbrewill) they met the two women, who took sky, along Chi Wo Street, then them to a certain temple where they down Jordan Road, and finally at i
the Gas Co.'s premises, in Nathan changed the two lids' clothing.
After hearing the evidence of the Road. older of the two kidnapped lads, his Worship, addressing the defendants said: "Convicted of kidnapping.! You will each be sentenced to twelve months' hard labour."
the
Police Congratulated. His Worship, through Interpreter, congratulated police constable Li Shing on his good work, and pointed out that he thought the children would never be seen again had it not been for his arrest.?
The police officer endorsed his Worship's kind remarks, and intim- ated that L1 Shing did a good plece of work on his part.
His Worship: I suppose this will be taken notice of departmentally? Sub-Inspector Evans: Yes. I will bring it to the notice of the D.S.P. (Kowloon).
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