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In a class by itself

LEAGUE NO WISER

Paris, Yesterday.

The proceedings of the Coun- cil today, when Mr. Yoshizawn replied to questions in regard to treaties, were the slowest so fur Yoshizawa held, because Mr. spoice in Japanese which had to be translated into English, and French.

The impression gathered in League circles is that the Coun- cil did not feel very much wiser at the end of the ordeal.

Mr. Yoshizawn remained with the Gougcil for 105 minutes. He made no speech. It is understood he is reserving his speech for The public sitting which, may be held tomorrow.

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More Serious Situation, Dr. Sze left the Quai D'Orsay a few minutes before 8 o'clock. to-night, and the meeting of the Council ended ten minutes.or so Inter.

Dr. Sze spoke for an hour. After leaving .the Quai D'Orsay, he said the various questions put to him by the Council he understood to be in regard to the application of treaties.

When Dr. Sze was, received by the Council, he informed them that the situation in Manchuria had become very much serious.

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Far From A Settlement. The upshot of to-day's meet- ing is that we are still very far, from a settlement. Apart from

LOCAL SHARE MARKET.

Steady to Firm This

Morning.

:

STOLEN JAPANESE PROPERTY.

Two Chinese Sent to Jail.

NEWS TABLOIDS.

The goddess of good fortune is amiling not alone on Shanghai | and Tientsin residents, she has MAN AND WOMAN FREED.

been pleased to bestow a smile f -..

on Mr. W. Yu, of 15, Shelley Two of four accused, charged Street, Hong Kong. Hé is re- before the Puisne Judge (Mr. ported to be the fortunate hold- R. E. Lindwell) at the Assizes, er of the ticket, in the Irish Sweep drawn on the Manchester in connection with a robbery at Handicap, which has drawn the The official summary issued by the Stock Exchange on November 567, Nathan Road, Kowloon, on horse Jacques Emile Blanche.

September 17, were sentenced 19 states:

BUYERS PREDOMINATE.

Sales Reported.

Unions at $130.

Underwriters at $1.70. Wharves at $151. Hotels (old) $14.90. Humphreys (new) $17. Trams at $21 and $21. Ropes at $17. Dairy Farms at $282. Constructions (new) at $2.

Byers.

Kam and Ng Kau, and a woman, Luk Fuk, pleaded "not guilty" to charges of receiving stolen pro- perty.

Mok

"

A Long Story.

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THE ANTI-DUMPING BILL.

Shelter for British Industry.

NOT TAXATION.

OVERSEAS TRADE

AEROPLANE ATTACKS MOSQUITOES.

Dusting Calcutta Breeding Places.

DEMONSTRATION FLIGHT.

Rugby, Yesterday.

A detailed review of British ¡Overseas trade in October, pub:' lished to-night by the Board of Trade, has special interest in view of Government's "Art Dumping" Bill

Figures show

ABSENT JUROR'S EXPLANATION ACCEPTED

Rugby, Yesterday.

that, while the increase, in im- The second reading of the

ports in October of this year as Abnormal Importations Customs

compared with Septeinber way £12.4,000,000, the average Duties Bill was moved in the

in- House of Commons to-night by An aeroplane is to play a prin- crease of October was £7,000,000. It is stated that the excess of the Parliamentary Secretary of ipal part in Calcutta's ight mports over exports of mer- The market opened steady to firm this morning. One of the ac-

the Board of Trade, Major Here against the mosquito menace. The handise in the first ten months this morning, buyers predominat-

At the end of yesterday's or. ing.

cused, Wong Wah, admitted hav- deal, the League Council is re. Belisha, who answered Opposi-plane will be used in dusting breed of this year was £328.2,000,000 ing taken part in the robbery. ported to be not very much tion arguments on constitution-ing places of mosquitoes with Paris £10.4,000,000 more than the corresponding figure for last, The other three, two men, Mok wiser, and yet very far from a al grounds against the emergency Green.

year, and that of this inérenae in settlement. The Japanese dele-

mea. The experiment has been carried the visible adverse balance of gallon has proposed that a Com- powers conferred by the mission of Inquiry should be des sure with a statement that it out, with success in some parts of trade over half occurred in Octo-

ber-British Wireless Service. patched to Manchfiri, Bubject it was not introduced for the the United States of America and to recognition of halve funda-

purpose of taxation but to keep in Italy and it is now going to be mental points.

goods out. Any taxes levied tried for the first time in India. would be in the nature of fines As a preliminary to a regular air Mr. Yoshizawa, it is under- or compensations exacted at campaign of this kind, a demonstra-

Mr. Frederick Danenberg Alver,. stood, will make a statement of ports. The Bill was intended to tion has been held in Majorhat, of the China Light, and Power Co.

miles from Calcutta, importance detailing why Japan shelter those engaged in British about three

[the juror who was absent when his insists on China recognising her industry from sporadic and Irre-when an aeroplane flew over a vast

stretch of land spraying it with Judge's Court yesterday, attended name WES callod in the Puiszo ebligations in respect of treaties gular importations.

The remaining stages of the Paris Green.

Court this morning. · Asked by his Bill will be taken to-morrow. The plane which took off from Lordship to explain his absence, be It is understood that machin- Dum Dum Aerodrome was piloted said that he did not repeive the ery for giving effect to the Bill, by Mr. Moylan, who had been busy, summons, and, in fact, did not set up by the Board of Trade, is for some time past remodelling the know, until told last night by his ready to be put into operation machine,

manager, that he was to have served at the shortest notice-British The demonstration was watched on the jury that day, Wireless Service.

among others by Mr. E. M. Rice,

His Lordship pointed out that the Colonel Martin Leake, Dr. R. Senior summons was sent to the Company's White, and Dr. R. M. Bradley." office at Hok Un, but Mr. Alves T- Speaking about this campaign plied that he worked at the Sub- against Anopheles Ludlowi in the Station in Kowloon Tong, and the Alipore area, Dr. Bradley enld that summons never reached him there. the work was being carried out by His Lordship accepted Mr. Alver's In the House of Commons in the Garden Research Anti-Malaria explanation and allowed him to de answer to a question, the Under- Association. Special funds were part Secretary for Foreign Affairs, being provided by Messrs. 'Mackin- Captain Eden, stated that the non Mackenzie and Company and However, at the urgent request Blanche has been drawn by ticket present negotiations between the the Port Commissionera to protect

in the name of French and German Govern shipping in the port.

ments were understood to relate

Hanks at $1,575. Unions at $480. Underwriters at $4%1⁄2. Raubs ta $422. .Providenta (old) at $5.10.

Providents (new) at $2,45, Hotels (old) $15. Hotels (new) at $14. H.K. Lands at $80. Humphreys (old) $17. Ewas at $15. Trama at $21.

Star Ferries at $91. HK. Electrics at 375. Telephones (part paid) at $26. Ropes at $16.90.

Dairy Farms at $28.

Kam, charged with re- ceiving a rain cont and three pieces of clothing which he pawn- led, blamed a man; Ah Kau (sur- named Khoo), and proceeded to tell a long story to the effect that Ah Kau owed him $1.30, and when asked for the return of the money gave him the clothing to pawn saying that they belong Jed to a student friend of his who was ill and in need of money. He (Mok Kam), believing Ah Kau, pawned the things at a pawnshop. at which he was known, giving|

made concerning Manchuria. *'

Another secret meeting of the Council was due to be held early this morning.

his own name. He raised $15 on HONG KONG MAN'S

the things and gave the money to Ah Kau. who then paid him

H.K. Government Loan at $2 the $1.30 owing to him. Then

Sellers.

Venezuelan Goldfields at 82. H.K. Realties at $12. Ewos at 16. China Lights at $271⁄2. Constructions (new) at $2.40.

technical difficulties, and the wide gap between the Chinese premium. and Japanese theses the Council has also to keep step with Gen-1 cral Dawes with whom collabora- | tion is close and complete. The most striking feature of to-day's proceedings was the proposal made by the Japanese delegation that a commission of enquiry should be despatched to Mun- churia, subject to the acceptance! of the five points. It is pointed

The Tsang Foo Villa murder out, concerning these, that the trial was resumed before the Japanese intend to adhere to Chief Justice (Sir Joseph Kemp. their original demanda.

TSANG FOO VILLA MURDER TRIAL.

K.C.) this morning.

Medical Officer's Evidence.

Ah Kau wanted him to pawn & gramophone and 30 records, but, suspecting him, he

refused.

GOOD FORTUNE.

The

London, Yesterday"

horse Jacques Emile

FRENCH-GERMAN CONVERSATIONS.

Rugby, Yesterday.

Insurance.

PRODUCTION AT A LOSS.

Three Months' Coal Statistics.

of Ah Kau he got the woman, No. B/A X51962 (Luk Fuk) to pawn them.

Ng Kau charged with receiv-W. Yu, 15, Shelley Street, Hong solely to the question of proce-

"The money 1970 are spending: ing a clock and a camera, blamed Kong. Reuter.

dure, namely how to adopt to

must be looked upon as an insur- the first accused, Wong. Wah,{

present circumstances the

During the quarter ending with. saying that the latter hid the

provision in the Young Plan ance against sickness. Not every the last day of June, 51,595,927 things, without his knowledge, inj

one unvaccinated or uninoculated tons of saleable coal were raised for a special advisory committee will succumb even a firewood basket beneath his

Dr. Sze has informed the to enquire into Germany's finan- trolled epidemic of smallpox or tons being described as disposable in an uncon-lin the British coalfields, 47,682,035 League Council, that the situacial position-British Wireless cholera, and yet money is spent to bed.

commercially. lessen the general as well as the The net cost of production whe individual risk.

£38,094,540, or 18s. 11d. per ton, We decided that we could wait while the proceeds of the commer- no longer on investigation or even cist disposals were £82,829,974, of tualities. It was in October, 1880, 18n. 9d, per ton, leaving a debt that Budge Budge "blew up," and of £264,566.

He called Wong Wah as a wit-tion in Manchuria has grown Service. ness, and the latter corroborat- very serious. ed this statement, saying the Dr. K. H. Uttley, Medical Offi-only things he took away at the make a complete historique of cer in charge of the Kowloon robbery were a watch, a clock,

Mr. Yoshizawa to Explain. Mr. Yoshizawa is going to

The causes

Chinese administrative and in-witness said the rupture of the

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Mr. Stimson denies that the

INDIAN ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE.

Rugby, Yesterday.

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The procedure to be adopted so, seeing no sign of action by the The number of workpeople" em during the remaining stages of Corporation, we moved on behalf played was 818,718 and the total the Indian Round Table Confer- of the City otherwise helpless man shifts worked was 48,140,285,

ture Committee..

boing 21.44 cwt. There were

the events leading up to the pre- Mortuary, gave details in respect and a camera. The watch he attitude of the US. towards the sent situation in Manchuria, es of two postmortems held on the kept, and the clock and camera Manchurian dispute has chang- pecially showing the reasons bodies of two Japanese, a man he hid in Mok Kum's wood based. why Japan must insist on the and a woman.

of ket. binding recognition of China's death, he said, were shock and The woman, charged with re- obligation in respect of treaties hemorrhage following multiple ceiving a gramophone and 30 re- Sir Harold Kittermaster suc-ence was today announced by owing to inaction by its official the output per man shift worked between China and Japan con- injuries,

cords, said she pawned them at ceeds Sir John Burdon as Lord Sankey who presided at health guardians. cerning Manchuria.

Replying to Mr. Whyte-Smith, the request of Mok Kam. She Governor and C-in-C. of British the meeting of the Federal Struc "Owing to the unreadiness of 2,057,871 man shifts lost which Dr. Uttley said, in his opinion, got $20 for the things and hand-Honduras,

the neroplane that alone can effec-could have been worked, including Chinese Communique. the wounds had been inflicted by ed the money over to Mok Kam

Following a long interchange tively and cheaply control these absences due to sickness or acci A Chinese communication, some. sharp instrument, He who in turn gave it to another; circulated through the League could not draw any conclusion as man.

of views this morning discussion swamps, an emergency organization, dent. Secretariat to-day, refers to the to what caused the bruises.

According to Major Hore of reserved subjects is to be for hand application was hurriedly alleged kidnapping of ex-

Belisha, the Anti-Dumping Bill proceeded with, and at its con- got together to do the work for the WOMAN ROBBED & MURDERED. Describing the external in-

Charge to Jury. Emperor Pu Yi and his escort-juries on the body of the man,

has not been introduced for pur-clusion Lord Sankey will draft first week of the month, at least. ment by the Japanese to Muk Dr. Uttley said the body bore Lordship said it was

In his charge to the jury, his poses of taxation. It is intended the report on Army and External There were available only two in- A brutal armed robbery and not suff to shelter British industrialists Relations, Commercial Discrim- spectors trained in such work, and murder is reported to have occur den and states that the National numerous marks of violence. He clent for them to believe that from sporadic and irregular im-ination and Finance to be sub these men had to operate with a red last night at a house in Ny Government, has already declar went on to specify these and ex- the prisoners must have suspect-portations. ed to the League and friendly pressed an opinion as to how and ed that the things were stolen;

mitted to the Committee before hundred odd mill coolies complete- Kok Village, near Fang Yuen Vil- Governments that it will not re- with what they may have been they must be satisfied that they

being sent on to the Plenary ly unfamiliar at the start with what lage, Taipo. Four men are safa Conference for consideration, was required of them; mon had to to have entered the house "and cognise definite institutions es- caused.

Juctually knew they were stolen

murdered a Chinese woman named tablished in subversion of Replying to Crown Counsel, property,

British overseas trade figures for Meanwhile, the date of the Plen be trained as they worked.

"That the first round was com, Tang Sze, à October show an Increase in value ary Session cannot be fixed.

widow, aged 60% The jury retired and on re of imports over September figures. tegrity in the North Eastern kidney and spleen was probably turning to Court gave the fol- The excess of imports over exports, the Committee has reserved its due entirely to Dr. Adhikari, goods.

As a considerable section or pleted with comparative success is They decamped with a quantity of Provinces occupied by. Japanese duo either to a kick or a blow. lowing verdicts:-

Malariologist of the troops.

Carpenter's Evidence,

With regard to Mok Kam, aJanuary to October 1981 was opinion on these subjects, the Assistant

and Assistant SMASH, BUT NOT GRAB. Another Secret Mecting.

Yotaro Ikobe, B

carpenter, unanimous verdict of "guilty."£10,000,000 more then for the cor- Chairman said, he was placed in B.-N. Railway There is to be another secret gave evidence of the events

With regard to Ng Kau, a 4 to responding period of 1930, and over a position of some difficulty in Secretary of the Association, who

Visions of a smash-and-grab rajč which led up to the attack. He 3 verdict of "hot guilty."

half of this increase occurred in preparing the report which could throughout the three days had en- described how he and a lady

not be framed in full detail. October.

tire charge of the operations. Too flashed through the minds of people. With regard to Luk Fuk, u Washington, Yesterday. friend, Miss Yoshi, managed to unanimous verdict of "not

The afternoon session was de-much credit cannot be given to Dr. who, hearing a big crash, rushed to An emphatic denial, that the escape into the adjoining house guilty."

voted to a discussion of Commer-Adhikari and his Inspectors for a shop at Colney Hatch Lano, Mu United States Government has by way of the summer house.

cial Discrimination, ・・・

what they have accomplished, well Hill, London, recently. Instead changed its attitude to the Man-It had been witness's intention In discharging the woman, Luk cused, Wong Wah, who had admitt-

The debate was opened by Mr.A half mile circle from the im- they saw a woman sitting on the churian dispute, has been issued to inform the Police, but their Fuk, hie Lordship said that the ed taking part in the robbery.

Benthall-British Wireless Ser. Portation centre at Maferhat had footpath and a broken pane of attempt to leave the villa was dict, but, he said, the accused ought 2 verdict of "not guilty" with re- jury were quite right in their vor- by Mr. Stimson.

The jury came back with a 5 to vice.

been treated, at an approximate glass from the 12ft, by 8ft, window Commoners and the Ex-Emperor. cut off by the angry mob.

cost of Rs. 960. Is this too large of a confectioner's shop. The The case is proceeding..

to have been suspicious about the gard to Ng Kau and his Lordship

ja sum for such as insurance? woman was unhurt and explained affairs, and concluded with the discharged him.

"Residents of Alipore who saw that she had slipped on a leaf and caution, "Let this be a lesson to

Mok Kam was then charged with

the Paris Groen mixture being ap- fallen against the window with her soy, 5.djs. {returning to that Golony whils

plled, often badly and wastefully umbrella and attache case, Bhe Captain Eden replying, said that |

His Lordship then told the Jury under a deportation

we admit, must not think that by went away somewhat distressed by The King has been pleased to this they will be rid, even tem; the accident. reports had been received indicat small coin of the twelfth century, that their 4 to 8 verdict, with re 1929 for a perfod of ten years. ing that the ex-Emperor had was sold, at Glendinning's, London Kard to Ng Kau, was not a verdict, Remarking that Mok Kam was a appoint Sir Harold Kittermaster porarily, of the mosquito nuisance. proceeded from Tientsin to Muk- last month, for £62. Eustace was and requested them to retire again particularly undesirable character. to be Governor and Commander- Paris Green will only kill Anophe affect this. den, but he was unable to confirm an adherent of the Empress and try to bring in a 5 to 2 verdict, his Lordship passed sentence of two in-Chief of British Honduras in line mosquitoes, not savage biters funds nor the organization. their accuracy, or state whether Matilda. In. 1188 he joined David one way or the other.

years for receiving stolen property. auccession to Sir John Burdon.

of the genera Culex and Stegomyia. "It has cleared its own area of During the Jury's absence, his and three years for returning from Sir Harold, since "1926, has any attempt was being made to of Scotland and fought for him at

"For such all and very detalled them almost entirely, and a similar work is required, and in the Alipore Association. In Alipore could ne establish an independent govern the Battle of the Standard. Later Lordship passed sentence of three banishment, the sentences to run been Governor of Somaliland, ment in Manchuria-Reuter,

British Wireless Service. years hard labour on the firat ne consecutively, he made a trace with Stephen.

area the Association is not out to complish the same.”

meeting to-morrow morning.

U.S. Attitude Unchanged.

London, Yesterday.

The question of the ex- Emperor of China was raised in

£62 FOR A PENNY.

the House of Commons to-day.nationale SIRE

A Eustace Fitzjohn penny, a very

(order) of

BRITISH HONDURAS'S NEW GOVERNOR.

Rugby, Yesterday.

It has neither tho