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GENERAL MA ASSASSINATED?

China's Fallen Hero.

Nanking, Yesterday.

WHEAT QUOTA | CENTRAL EXECUTIVE

BILL.

COMMITTEE.

Guaranteed Price and

Session on

Secure Market.

March 1.

Rugby, Yesterday.

Shanghai, (11.09 a.m.

To-day.

A report received by the Foreign, Government's Wheat Quota Bill, Office from Harbin declares that published to-day, aims at providing tive source, that Members

General Ma Chan-shan, who sprunga secure market and an enhanced

It is learned, from an authorita- of the Central Executive

Kuomintang

into world-wide prominence when price for home-grown wheat of Committee, now staying in Shang-|| he resisted the Japanese at the millable quality without a subsidy hat, have decided to proceed to Nonni River and later at Tai Tal-from the Exchequer and without

to har, has been assassinated.

Loyang attend the Second! encouraging extension of wheat This report has not yet been cultivation to unsuitable land.

Plenary Session of the Central Executive Committee on March 1. eenfirmed from other sources.

The guaranteed price is to be From being a National hero, Ma forty-five shillings per quarter of

This decision is generally accept- Chan-shan recently fell low in 604 pounds.

ed as an indication that whatever misgivings, a few of them might public esteem, when he called on A secure market is provided by have entertained General Tamon, the diminutive imposing on millers a contingent purpose of the plenary session, are as regards the Japanese Commander, who had de- obligation to purchase the stocks off now feated him and expressed his regreti home-grown millable wheat remain-

dispelled. Reuter's Pacific for having caused him "incon- ing unsold at the end of a cereal venience." It is believed here that, year.

if he has actually been assassinat-

The Bill sets up a wheat Commis. ed, his assailant may have been sion for the general administration some chauvinist who was disgusted of the scheme and, particularly, to with his action-Reuter's Pacific decide the quantity of home-grown

Service.

INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT.

China Protests.

Nanking, To-day,

་

The Foreign Office has lodged two protesta with Mr. Shigemitau,, one with regard to the Indepen- dence Movement in Manchuria," and the other with regard to the Japaneso aerial attack on the Soo- chow air-base on February 22.

The protest says that, If the In- dependence Move in Manchuria, which is being encouraged by Japan, materialises, then Japan will be held responsible.-Reuter's Pacific Service.

SMALL BLAZE IN WOOSUNG STREET.

Two three-storeyed houses, Ne 67 and 69, Woosung Street, Yau- mati, were affected by a fire which broke out last night. When the fire appliances arrived, the flames had secured a good hold, and the conflagration threatened to assume! dangerous proportions. The fire, however, was under control in a quarter of an hour, and no casual- ties were reported.

A "RECORD" HOAX.

Oxford Music Shops Filled With

Unordered Goods.

wheat millers will require and the' Flour Millers' Corporation to dia- charge any obligations imposed on millers respecting unsold wheat.- British Wireless Service.

FINE WEATHER COMING.

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

The anti-cyclone is now central to the North of the Upper Yangtze Valley.

Forecast: N. winds, strong; overcast at first. finer later.

Rainfall.

Rainfall for 24 hours eud- ed at 10 a.m. to-day 0.14 inch. Total since January 1-1.94 Inches against an average of 2.90 inches-defcit 96 inch.

Iemperature. Hong Kong hình

Macao

Pratas Island

Manila

Foochow

Amoy Chefoo Shanghai

47

48

68

72

52

52

26

29

FINANCIAL,"

Government Estimates for Coming Year.

REDUCTION OF £7,000,000.

Service.

ODD JOBS.

The Python Hunter

from Borneo.

Dinner was in progress at a well-known hotel in Singapore, one sultry evening a short while) ago, when a tall, sun-tanned man. in dress kit, approached a table at which another resident WIE dining. A flash of recognition passed between them; the man seated cried, "Hallo! What brings you here?"

The new arrival replied, "Oh, snakes, you know-snakes."

The occupants of tables near looked round curiously. But what the man said was true. He was a python hunter from the rivers of Borneo, with a shipment of skins for London, where they would be made into ladies' footwear.

That is just one of the uncom mon, methods of making a Tireil- hood I have met travelling about the world.

To spend one's life attending to the wants of millions of alck silk- warms is another singular occupa.

tion. There is in the Nilgiri Hills of India a man who does this in a small building on which the words "Sanatorium for Silkworms" are painted. To this man are sent from the raw silk centres ulling larvae.

A strange Job, too, is that of Mosquito Jack who, carrying on his back a tank of strong disin- fecting fluid to which is connect- ed a hand syringe, searches the dark corners of the Bombay Docks for pools of stagnant water. Ол

deals death to mosquitoes. the pools he squirts the fluid that

Rugby, Yesterday, The first of a series of Govern ment estimates for the next

Meet the "catcher" to the zoo in financial year, upon which the Hamburg who boards vessels load- Many gramophones and large Budget, is to be introduced in April, ed, with "quebracho" wood and numbers of records arrived recent will be based, was issued to-day. waits during the discharge of the ly at the warehouses of severalį

The document covers Civil Escargo to pounce Oxford music shops, as the result timates and Estimates for Revenue animal or reptile that may have upon any small of a hoax for which two persons are Departments, including pensions, survived the long journey from the believed to be responsible.

education, Insurance and other Argentine, hidden in the great hol- The suspected persons are said grants, and Exchequer contributions low tree trunks."

at

to have overheard in a shop a com- to local revenue. They show a A Russian is the custodian of a mercial traveller's request to see reduction on last year's estimates licensed opium smoking room the manager of the business, and from $409,014,760 to £402,028,105. Dairen, in the Yellow Sea. This one of the two said that he was the The actual reduction on Civil man sees that the slaves of the manager.

Estimates exceeds nine million pipe patronising his establishment After a short conversation the pounds, but an incrence in the are not robbed while under the in- "manager" and his companion said estimated expenditure by the fluence. Another exile from the that they must go to luncheon, and Revenue Departments gives the re-same country is now in Bangkok accepted the traveller's Invitation, duction as above. Principal re-making a good living fashioning At his hotel, after luncheon, the ductions are on education £5,468,- the grotesque masks used in the "manager" ordered a large selection 701; roads £4,290,000, and pensions "devil dancing: much of his of goods for several shops in the ministry £2,795,200-British Wire handiwork goes to Thibet-B.G.P. town

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