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OSNO China Mail

At Colby, Kansas, a 'Studebaker Six set the

remarkable record of 41.44 actual milos per U.S.

Fallon of gasoline. The test was conducted, as

a feature of a tractor show held in that city. Fourteen drivers entered into the contest to see which could drive The Studebaker Six the far-

measured half

on his ration, winner achieved 20.73 of recline. others ranged down to 10.3 miles for the half rallon. All teats were made with the same car and the radical difference in mileage from 41 to 20 miles to the gallon can be explained only by the variation in driving habits.

HONG KONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. (lacorporated in Hong Kong.)

No. 27,998

STRANGLED TO

DEATH

BRUTAL MURDER ON· TAIPO ROAD QUARRY

-

NO APPARENT MOTIVE

POLICE MAKING FULL INVESTIGATIONS.

A brutal murder was committed last night in a stone quarry just off the Taipo Road, the victim be- ing a watchman who lived in a small hut in the stone quarry being worked by Messrs. Woo Shing, contractors.

It appears that one or more persons entered the matshed in which the deceased was sleeping, bound and gagged him, later strangling him with a length of rope.

The body was found at about 7 a.m. lying on its back on a Chinese bed, dressed in Chinese cloth- ing The hands had been tied to its sides. The top portion of the deceased's false teeth were still in the mouth, but the bottom portion had obviously been forced out during the process of gagging and were found lying on the ground.

ESTABLISHED 1845.

The

TO-DAY'S DOLLAR. closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/5, 3/16,

HONG KONG, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1932.

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

MANCHURIA INQUIRY WAR ON

COMMISSION.

Personnel to Be Announced on Friday.

CHAIRMANSHIP 7

Rugby, Yesterday. The list of five members of the Manchuria Commission will be published in Geneva on Friday.

tative on the Commission.

THE £

FRENCH BANKS' OFFENSIVE

CITY RUMOUR

U.S. AND FAR

EAST.

Stimson to Make a Statement.

NOT REGARDED AS portant

LIKELY.

ON POLICY.

031

JUST ARRIVED

DUNLOP 1932 TENNIS BALLS

(PRESSURE PACKED)

NOW OBTAINABLE, FROM ALL STORES.

RAGING GALE IN THE CHANNEL

MOTOR BARGE FOUNDERS IN THAMES ESTUARY

SAILOR DROWNED

Washington, Yesterday. It is indicated In highly authoritative circles, that an im- statement by Mr. Stimson, The Commission will meet in

United States"

Geneva, before leaving Europe,

policy in the Far East, may STEAMER DRIFTING: STEAMER to draw up a programme of work

shortly be expected, following

AGROUND: LIFEBOATS BUSY. and establish satisfactory and

yesterday's conversation between Rugby, Yesterday.

Mr. Stimson and the British- rapid lines of communication with the Council of the League.

Southern England is being swept by a terrific The statement, published to-day, French Ambassadors regarding further co-operation, between the Lord Lytton has accepted the that French banks are launching an countries, m connection gale, and shipping in the Channel is being severely appointment of British represex-attack on the pound sterling by with the Manchurian question. buffeted. A steamer is aground in Dungeness Bay,

The question of the Chairman-withdrawing their balances, was de ship of the Commission will rest bated in authoritative cicles in the Mr. Stimson, however, for the and another, with engines disabled, is drifting off present, declines to make a com- the Scilly Isles. The destroyer "Vendetta” also de- with the Council of the League. City. Ever since Great Htain went mes

veloped engine trouble off Southend, but was safely -British Wireless Service. off the gold standard, howeve

The official receipt of destowed into Portsmouth. the attitude of French bag patches by the State Depart A GESTURE OF authorities towards ng has ment indicating that the Japan-

A motor barge has foundered in the Thames been friendly and helpful and there ese campaign is extending beyond Estuary, but her crew, in an exhausted condition, DISOBEDIENCE. is no indication of any likelihood of Chinchow toward China proper is have been rescued. On the Medway, the destroyer

a change in this attitude. Betish causing concern Reuter's

Ameripan Service. Salt Law: Wireless Service.

Violated

VILLAGERS ROBBED

AND ASSAULTED.

Masked Men' with Arms.

AT KARACHI.

Karachi, Yesterday. Five volunteers, headed by Entrance was gained, it is thought, from the rear of the the local Congress dictator, matshed, a hole having been to rn in the wall near the foot of made a gesture of disobedience the bed. The door, when the crime was first discovered, was bolt-to-day. They marched to the ed on the inside.

Police investigations were pursued at the scene of the crime, and the body was removed to the Public Mortuary shortly before neen.

Wo Wotive for the crime has been yet discovered, but it is thought that more than one person' init’have taken part in the murder,

BRITISH CABINET

BUSY.

The Problem of Reparations.

FULL MEETING.

MR. WINSTON

CHURCHILL,

Touring the West Indies.

QUICK RECOVERY.

(Reuter's Special Service.). Massau, Bahamas, Yesterday.

Rugby, Yesterday. The Cabinet Committee Bet up to consider the question of Mr. Winston Churchill, who is Reparations, in view of the on a tour of the West Indies is forthcoming Conference of Lau- quickly recovering from his New sanne, met to-day-the Chan-York street accident, and is now cellor of the Exchequer (Mr. greatly improved in health; but Neville Chamberlain), the For- he has postponed his departure eign Secretary (Sir John Simon), to New York from January 12 to and Viscount Snowden attend- January 25. He has been enter- ing.

Sir Frederick Leith Ross, of the Treasury, who is returning to Parls on Friday to resume an exchange of views on the subject with experts of the French Ministry of Finance; was pre- sent.

The Prime Minister is return- ing to London to-morrow morn- ing from Lossiemouth.

A full meeting of the Cabinet will be held early next week.- British Wireless Service

CHINESE REPUBLIC'S 21ST YEAR.

JANUARY 1 A MEMORABLE-DAY:

«New Year' the 21st Year!

was not:

by Gover

was carried

Rep

tained to a banquet by the Bahamas' Legislature.

AUSTRALIA AND TARIFFS.

FIRST BUSINESS OF NEW PARLIAMENT.

(Renter's Special Service.)

Canberra, Yesterday. Tariffs will be the first bust. ness of the new Federal Parlin ment when it assembles on

seashore and violated the salt laws. They were not interfered with by the Police.

greatly alarmed dealers in for News of boycott policy has eign cloth here. One was even seized with a paralytic stroke and mental derangement. The sale of foreign piece goods in Karachi has seriously declined.

Meetings Prohibited.

Madras, Yesterday. All Congress, and allied organ- isations, in Madras city have been dissolved. Orders have been promulgated prohibiting meetings in Trichinopoli and a number of other towns.-Reuter.

MADRID PERTURBED BY RUMOURS.

Another Dictatorship for Spain ?

AGGRESIVE GUARDS.

Madrid, Yesterday. Alarmist rumours of an im- minent coup de etat and the es tablishment of a dictatorship under General San Jarjo, leader of the Civil Guard, are rife here to-night. They are the culminaTM tion of clashes between Civil

F

BECOMING COLDER.

The Royal Observatory's re- port issued this morning states:

The anti-cyclone has strengthened, and is now can- tral over N.E. China. -

The typhoon appears to be nearly stationary about 200 miles N.N.E. of Yan

Forecast:Northerly winds, fresh generally overcast, drizzle or mist, becoming cool-

ar.

The following telegram wea received to-day from the Manila Observatory by the American Consulate General:

Manila, 9.20 a.m--Typhoon. in about 189 deg. Long E., adn 18 deg. Lat. N., almost

stationary.

Rainfall

Rainfall for 24 hours end-

ed at 10 am to-day- Dil. Total since January 1-nil against an average of 0.16 inch-defcit 0.16. inch.

Temperature.

The temperature at certain specified centres this morning at:6 o'clock was:---

. Hong Kong

Macao

65

81

Pratas Island

70

Manila

Foochow

58

Amoy Chefoo Shanghai

29

Guards and strikers in several DEATH OF FRENCH

parts of the country, notably Arnedo, where six persons have been killed.

Premier Azana, denies that General San Jarjo is plotting A dictatorship, and strongly rebuts allegations that the Guards are February 17, according to a fealing against the Guards is, at acting aggressively. But publie Cabinet decision to-day, we

Premier Lyone has appointed Present, Intense, particularly in

the rural areas, Reuter. Mr. 8. M. Bruce third in pre- cedence in the Cabinet

DIPHTHERIA.

ONE CASE REPORTED TO-DAY

Only one case of diphther patient being notified

Ithe

Euroj

EARLY MORNING TRAGEDY.

Sampan Capsizes in

the Harbour.

MAN DROWNED:

WAR MINISTER.

Champion of Ex- Service Men.

M.MAGINOT.

Paris, Yesterday. French ex-Bervice men have lost their best fon by the death, only, of the French alster for War M. Maginot-Beater.

`SOME VIOLENCE.

Robberies occurred at two vill lager in the New Tertiaries last night, according to Police reports to-day:

"Whirlwind's" longboat capsized and a sailor was drowned. Lifeboats all along the South Coast have been kept busy answering calls of shipping in dis- tress, and magnificent rescue work has been silently and unostentatiously done.

Rugby, Yesterday. when the storm was at its heightp The first of a series of storms, several vassels were have to: Two which, according to forecasts, are lifeboats are standing by the 1,500 Greek steamer Alexander approaching from the Atlantic, tons swept Southern England to-day, aground in Dungeness Bay. Shipping was severely buffetted in The steamer Jersey City of the Lago, Chime and several 6:322 tots was repor misarpi are reported

The Sontend. Lifeban

Cheng On (51), a farmer living the crew of a motor at Sam Po Chung Village stated immediately afterwards that shortly after midnight he was the-Thames Estuary. The crew

coaster was slancia

were

destro

deve:

loped engine trouble off Southsea and was towed into Portsmouth.

lawakened by soméone banging on "a"

Three men were in an exhausted condition:"" the door of his hut. entered and told him that Inspecs In the Medway a longboat al- tors were coming to search the hut tached to the destroyer Whirlwind The departure from Portsmouth for contraband. They forced the capsired; one seaman was drowned of the Atlantic Fleet on its Spring farmer back on to his bed, and one

and five saved.

Cruise was delayed until to-morrow

of the robbers, brandishing a pis-

tol, struck him on the head with Lifeboats were out in answer to owing to the gale.British Wireless the butt-end. The two others were calls along the South Coast, and, Wireless Service

armed with iron bars.

After remaining in the hut for

half an hour, the intruders left GOVERNMENT POLICY

with money and "clothing to the total value of $60.

The other report of a similar affair came from Sheung Kam Chung Village, where six men, wearing cloth masks, broke into a but, occupied by Wong Kee (60), and two fokis. The occupants of the hut were tied up, and one-of- the robbers, producing a dagger, held out threats. The robbers stole money and other property to the value in all of $18...

BRITISH AIR CRAFT

SUPERIORITY.

Moths For Brazilian Air Force.

OTHER COUNTRIES ORDER.

Rugby, Yesterday Fifteen Moth train planes, recently Brazil, whi machines, placed by the Brazilian Army The order compariso tive typ ward by

aero

rst. British contract, in Service. Exter

QUESTIONED.

Speaker Requested to Summon House.

GANDHI'S ARREST.

(Reuter's Special Service)

London, Yesterday.

BUS CONDUCTOR

COMMENDED

Smart Arrest of

Bag Snatcher

An urgent appeal to the Speak er to summon Parlament imme- Shop diately, to consider the far-this

IN QUEEN'S ROAD.

reaching problems facing the ductor country, has been issued by a Hotel Bug number of Left Wing Labourite Members of the House of Com mons, Including Mr. M **The

appeal: declares, among other things, that Industry is go- ing from bad to worse,

tcher In

the hard arrest of Gandhi, showe that bird Government in embar

a disastrous polley in

upon Blogging,

term of three

POLICE NOT EMPOWERED TO

PROSECUTE

floor

very

have acted

well, and I wish

con