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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1931.

SENATE'S QUARREL | INFRINGEMENT

WITH RED CROSS.

Furious at Refusal of

Relief Fund.

OBJECTION TO PRINCIPLE

Washington, Yesterday.

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SHIPS AND ILLICIT

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No Japanese Vessels Used in 1930.

Indian Editor Found Guilty in Lahore.

FIRST CASE IN PUNJAB.

Lahore, Yesterday,

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Geneva, Yesterday. A tragi-comic battle is in pro

The question of copyright in At a meeting of the Opium cess betwean the Senato on the news was raised in an Committee... Sir ---Malcolmn Jone hand and the American Redaction by the Associated Delevingne pointed out the neces

Cross and President Hoover on Press of India against the sity of further control in order to the other on the question of who Daily Siyasat, Lahore, for prevent the chartering of ships] shall relieve the 500,000 sufferers copying Associated Press news for illicit traffic. from drought in the agritultural from the Tribune, Lahore, thus Mr. Sato declared that the States.

infringing the copyright existing Japanese Government had intro Mr. J. B. Payne, head of the in this particular news,

duced special regulations for the Red Cross, has announced that hei The Magistrate decided that control of vessels transporting | will refuse the proposed relief (Mr. Inayatshah, the

Editor, opium. fund_ofo $25,000,000 passed by printer, and publisher of the Dr. Woo Kai-seng (China) ex- the Senate. Both the Red Cross Siyasat was guilty, and sentenced pressed appreciation of the mea- and Mr. Hoover maintain that the him to a fine of one rupee, sures of the Japanese Government) |$10,000,000 voluntary fund now This is the Arst case of its kind

in that connection.

being raised will be sufficient for in the Punjab and only the second! Sir Malcolm Delevingne noted relief purposes, and they object in India. In a previous case that presumably as a result of to the principle of Government Beuter's successfully sued the the new Japanese regulations no appropriations for charitable pur- Decan Herald, Poona, fer a simi- Japanese vessel in 1930 had been

lar offence.-Router.

poses.

The Senators are furious at the

rebuff and threaten to appoint

thier own relief agencies and ad- minister the appropriation if the House of Representatives passes it-Reuter's American Service.

PRINCESS ILL.

ALLEGED LARCENY

CHARGES AGAINST GANG SUSPECTS.

employed for the transport of

opium from Persia to the Far

East-Reuter.

POWERS & BRITAIN.

NO REPLY FROM SINGAPORE TO TREATY.

ALL OWNERS NOT TRACED.

Several Chinese suspected of KING'S AUNT MAINTAINS HER being members of a gang reapon-"

London, Yesterday. In the House of Commons to- STRENGTH.

sible for a series of burglaries in day the Rt. Hon. G. Lambert Kowloon were produced before Mr. asked what were the views of the London, Yesterday. H. R. Butters this morning, when

signatories of the Washington A bulletin issued to-day states ja number of charges were preferred Treaty of 1922 about the "Prefer- that H.R.H. Princess Beatrice against them in various groups and ential treatment to be accorded to maintained her strength through-individually.

Great Britain in the purchase of Toang Bin-wan, Shi Hon, and railway and other material." out the day.-Reuter.

[Princess Beatrice, who is the Wong Iu-wa, were charged with Mr. Henderson replied that the Aunt of H.M. King George, slip larceny, on January 12, of three text of settlement was sent to ped in Kensington Palace on Mon-pieces of clothing, three hair pins, the signatories in November, but day and fractured her right fore-a string of beads and a pair of no, communication had been re- arm. Later she contracted acute silver nut crackers, worth together ceived from them. bronchitis.]

+

$68.75, the property of Miss Ruth

Boxer Indemnity. Earlier News

Wong, a teacher of 20, Pak Tal

The Rt. Hon. G. Lambert's Rugby, Testerday. Streut.

question in the House of Com- Princess Beatrice is expected to Tsang and Shi were alternately mons referred to the Boxer In- arrive in London to-morrow, The charged with receiving the above demnity.-Reuter. Princess was reported this morn-property knowing that it hadi ing to have had a comfortable been stolen. night, but her general condition is dangerous.--British Wireless Ser-

vice.

PRINCES' TOUR.

ROYAL BROTHERS NOW IN BERMUDA.

ed against two of the accused as under:

Other Charges. All three were further charged Tsang Hin-wan, receiving stolen with two others, Chan Fook and property a blanket and silk scarf; Man Ping-cheung, with larceny on and Shi Hon, receiving an imitation |January 11 of a teakwood box, two leather box and a mosquito net, clocks, $15 in money, and 13 pieces knowing that they had been stolen. of clothing, total value $84.20,, the Apparently the owners of the pro- property of a stone breaker named perty mentioned in these two Chan Fook (a namesake of fourth charges have not been traced be- accused), who lives on the ground cause no names of complainants or Bermuda, Yesterday. floor of 55, Ha Heung Road.

addresses of the burgled bouses The Prince of Wales and Prince An alternative"charge of receiv-] were given. George have arrived here onjing the above stolen property was All the accused denied the vari their way to Buenos Aires, where preferred against the accused with ous charges preferred against them, they will open the British Indus- the exception of Wong Iu-wa, and his Worship fixed the hearing. tries Exhibition. Router.

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