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Quarantine restrictions have been imposed against arivals from Saigon on account of Sinallpox.
A private rikisha, belonging to Mr. Kin-chee, of 125 Hennessy Road, is reported to be missing from! Landale Street, Wanchai...
Personal Par.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1932.
FAR EAST SITUATION.
Precis of Main Overnight Cables.
Chapel came under bombard- ment again on Tuesday, and 2,000) Japanese marines were massed
ROUND THE POLICE COURTS.
(Kowloon Magistracy). Committeed to Assizes. }
The case against Man Chuen,. the Chinesa who is charged with hav 15,,000 Chinese troops are reporting received stolen property, alleged
Mr. Ronald Colman, film star,in preparation for an attack. passed through the Colony yester-
day on the M.M. 8.3. D'Artagnan,
in the course of a world tour. Heed to be concentrated in Chapel to have been the proceeds of an had a stay of three hours, and sail and to its westward side, and armed robbery committed at No. ed at six o'clock. He expects to be Chinese military authorities say 165, Portland Street, came to д back in America in a few weeks they are determined to drive the conclusion this morning when hg time. Mr. Colman is the star of Japanese out of Shanghai.
was committed for trial at the "Bulldog Drummond," "Condemn-
Supreme Court.
ed" and "The Devil To Pay". His Japanese Consular officials and Making a statement from the box, latest success is "The Unholy Gar- nationale have left Wuhu for defondant said "Those things are den" with Fay Wray.
Japan.
not mine. They were given to me by someone.
GENERALLY CLOUDY.
The Royal Observatory's re- port Issued this forenoon states:-
The anti-cyclone central over N.E. China has strengthened,
A depression to the E.S.E. of Tokyo is moving Eastward.
Forecast: N. E. winds, fresh; generally cloudy.
Rainfall
Rainfall for 24 hours end- ed at 10 a.m. to-day pil Total since January 1- all 1.58 inches-deficit 1.58 inches.
Temperature.
The temporature at certain specified centres this morning at 6 o'clock was:—
Hong Kong
63
Macne
65
Pratas Island
70.
Manila
72
Foochow
60
Amoy Chefoo Shanghai
61
20
36
MONEY LEFT.
Retired Master Mariner.
$90,400 IN COLONY.
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At a meeting of the Council of
the League of Nations, yesterday, CHINESE
WOMAN FOUND DEAD.
Was She Killed by a Motor Vehicle?
Mr. J. H. Thomas, on behalf of Britain, sald: It was impossible to allow the present situation in the Far East to continue, without con- fidence being lost in the Covenant, Pact of Paris, and Nine Power Treaty; that the British and U.S. Governments had decided to co- operate in bringing the present ese woman was found at midnight The body of an unknown Chin- lamentable situation to an end, and last night, lying in Prince Edward. hoped other Powers would also co Road near house No. 800. operate,
Mys- tery surrounds the circumstances of her death, but it is believed to To achieve the purpose in view, have been caused by either jump- Mr. Thomas proposed:
(1) all acts of violence and pre in motion, or by being knocked ing off a motor vehicle that was parations for hostilities shall end. down. The body was later remov- (2) dispulants in Shanghai with-fed to the Kowloon. mortuary.. draw their troops to a neutral zone. (3) peace parleys be instituted at once.
Trans-Atlantic 'Phone.
Conversation.
London, Yesterday. Sir John Simon and Mr. Stimson conferred on the trans-Atlantic telephone this evening.
Subject to be Raised in Parliament.
A SLIPPERY TRICK!
Story of 45 Strings of Oyster'!
Was selling
Cheng Ka-shing. oysters at the Un Long Market yesterday, when an unknown Chin- ese bargained for 45 strings of Mr. Lansbury has decided to oysters. He asked Cheng to take raise again the question of Japan-the oysters to Hong Kong. This ese action to-morrow.
was done. On arrival on the Island Members of the House of Com-Cheng left the oysters at a hawker's mons are disinclined to comment stall, whilst ha accompanied on the situation, as they are an- the would-be purchaser to change xious to maintain an initial at- some money. In Second Street titude.-Reuter.
Cheng lost his "purchaser," and on returning to the stall, discovered that the oysters, valued at $95, had disappeared!
2 certain prescribed limit that type of reasoning may hold Hong Kong, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 1932 water; but the heavens will not! fall if voluntary comment is de- ferred until they are in an indis- putable position, 1,000, 10,000, or Taking advantage of the fact 15,000 miles from the scene of that neither Japan nor China has conflict to guage what are facts! made a formal declaration of and what are allegations. There war, publicists and Pressmen is too great a tendency to con- outside of those two countries demn one Bide or the other as are displaying the utmost con- guilty before they have been tempt for the ethics of neutra- proved innocent, or, vice versa, lity regarding the crisis. With- to deem one side or the other to Mr. Samuel Bell Smith, retired out taking the trouble to verify be innocent until they have been Lutton, near Malton Yorkshire, on any of the allegations emanating proved guilty. This procedure January 22, 1931, left estate in the from the two disputants, they must of a surety be hampering Colony amounting to $90,400. rush into print with absolutely the labours of the genuine peace Re-sealing of certified copy of pro- Home estate is valued at £3,858. biased comments, whilst even makers in Japan and China, as bate of the will has been granted to some of those gentlemen of the well as throwing the pacifists in Mr. G. G. N. Tinson, of Mesors. It is reported in official circles thing is better entertainment than Press known as cable editors are foreign countries in a fog of Johnson, Stokes and Master attorney that drastic action will shortly the preceding programme. not above giving extra colour to doubt and misapprehension re-Smith, of Wold Newton, Yorkshire, ernment to deal with traitors and for deceased's brother, Mr. F. Hbe taken by the National Gov- the "news" by partisan head garding actualities as opposed to one of the executors. Power la political criminals who are at-
News in Brief.
master mariner, who died at East)
His
TRAITORS AND POLITICAL CRIMINALS
www
Drastic Action by National Government.
"BOY" EMPEROR HEADS LIST.
Nanking, Jan. 20.
HARMSTON'S CIRCUS.
The second programme of Harmston's Royal Menagerie and Circus, had a great reception last night when a large crowd was pre- sent. With the exception of one or two of the most popular turns, the programme has had a complete revision since last week, and if any→
.
DYNAMITE ON A JUNK.
lines and cross head lines. Thus assertions.. There is time yet for reserved for making & almilar tempti, g to restore the Man- (Continued from Page 1.) have the Sino-Japanese propagan- a saner perspective of the whole grant to the Westminster Bank the chu monarchical regime in Man-
other executor.
churia under the protection of dant utter the words "yum cha" dists, who have sprung up like situation, disquieting though ́itị
Local estate amounting to $156,- the Japanese,
to the detective, and later the mushrooms during the past four undoubtedly is at the moment. 800 (net personalty at Home Topping the list of traitors is second defendant approached the months, been ably supported by
£16,312) was left by Mr. Walter the name of Henry Pu Yi, the Inspector, and, it is alleged, put a Rosa, formerly of Forres, Moray former "boy" emperor, warrants $50 note into his hand. The commentators and Press writers
shire, late of Saigon, who died in for whose arrest and others will second defendant seemed to be act- in foreign centres. All is grist
Saigon on April 25, 1981. Re-sealing be issued in accordance with the ing on the first defendant's sug- that comes to the mill of public-.
of testament-testamentar has been law. Among the other traitors gestions. granted to Mr. V. M. Grayburn, are Pu Wei, Cheng Hsiao-sku, was about to arrest the man, the As Inspector, Stimson Ists, statesmen, and Pressmen.
The lowest open air temperature yesterday up to 4 p.m. was 64 de-Chief Manager of the Hong Kong Chin Liang, Chin Pi-tung, Hsi latter took the bank note out of Allegations and counter-allega-|
and Shanghai Banking Corporation Hala, Tsai Li, Tsai Tao, Chao his hand, and put it into the In- The humidity was 70 at here. The Hong Kong and Shang- Hain-po, Chao Chung-jen and spector's breast pocket. Being In tions are exaggerated to the in- 10 a.m. and 73 at 4 p.m.
hai Banking, Corporation in London Han To. The names of Tsang mid-harbour and fearing that the fended discomfiture of one side or
are appointed executora.
Shih- and Chang Ching-hui, defendants 'might dump overboard. puppet chairman of the Liaoning he beckoned to them, under the and Heilungkiang Provincial Gov-pretext of making "arrangements." ernments, will also be included. The defendants came forward and
North-eastern residents at the they were Instantly arrested.. Capital have repeatedly urged After evidence had been given the Central authorities to issue by Inap. Stimson and the Chinese such warrants so as to prevent detective, Chan Sau, the hearing the adherents of the "restora- was adjourned to to-morrow morn tion" clique at Peiping and Tion-
grees.
tons,
PROTEST LODGED WITH JAPANESE.
USURPATION OF MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY.
The total output of the Kailan the other. No sense of propor-Mining Administration's mixes for tion has been, or is being, ob- the week ended January 18 served,
amounted to 114,483 metric tons, The right of China and Japan and the sales to 109,515 metric to give to the world their own individual versions of occur- At the meeting of the Sanitary rences in China must inevitably Board yesterday, the Chairman sub- mitted a minute relative to the be conceded.
ed. Outsiders have to hours regulating tenggong
tein co-operating with the enemy take these at their face value, in open markets in Hong Kong and
in disturbing peace and order in the North They further re allowing always for natural bias. Kowloon. By this, the usual close
quested that notifications be issu- But both Japan and China musting hour of 8 p.m. is extended to
ed at the same time to the vari- (11.30 p.m. RUN KANADA KA
ous Powers informing them that each to day, be wondering to-day DespatchShanghai, To-day.
these traitors have been deprived who are their real friends in the The only business of public in. It was reliably reported early of all civic rights, in order that Chancelleries of Europe and terest at the meeting of the Banit this morning that the Defence disputes arising as a result of ary Board yesterday was the con- Council of the Settlement had treaties concluded by them with America and in the offices of sideration of an Application in res handed the Japanese, late last foreign powers may be avoided. foreign newspapers and news pect of fat bolling at 490, Reclama evening, a protest against allegKuo Min. agencies. Hot to day,
cold tion Street, Yaumati, and there was ed Independent military action. tomorrow, and lukewarm
we discussion, as to the general appli- within the Settlement, entere cability of Offensive Trades" "The report adds that the
the day, after": on one Licences. side or the other, it would granted. almost appear as if a section of
At
the world's journalism has fallen Britis
a too ready prey to the wiles of
the propagandista in the Far East.
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To-day's Thought.
There is no wealth like a collection of congenial friends.
Ten Years Ago.
{[From the “China, Mallë
February 3, 1922.3:
Today's dollar is worth
About 11 o'clock » lás Another armed robbery la alleg. plater working on the
The application was Municipal Government of the ALLEGED ARMED ROBBERY
Bettlement has communicated
with the Wapanese authorities *** Theatre the next demanding restoration of the
reen-functions of the Municipal Goy
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railitarists have assum
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