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DISTRESS IN RUSSIA.

Forty Million People Affected.

HARVEST FAILURE,

Riga, Yesterday. Forty million people are affected by the failure of the harvest in various parts of Russia and require relief, according to an official report from Moscow.

The despatch of a million tons of grain, decreed last month to the dis- treased districts, has been slowed

up, owing to the railways being unable to cope with the traffic, also because of the reluctance of the districts, unaffected by distress, to relinquish grain-Reuter.

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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1932.

Company Meeting:

MAYOR WU YET

WHARF AND GODOWN AWAITS REPLY.

COMPANY

EARNINGS LESS THAN 1930 BY $179,000.

FEWER

SHIPS UNLOAD

NORTHERN TROUBLE & JAPANESE

BOYCOTT.

To His Recent Letter

·CONFLICT AT AN END SAYS JAPANESE COMMANDER.

[From Our Own Conrespondant.) Shanghai (11.12 a.m.),

To-day.

The Japanese Consul

has not yet replied to

TO-DAY'S DOLLAR — The closing rate of the dollar, on demand, to-day was 1/8 11/16.

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

CHILD OF 4 CRUELLY

ILL-TREATED

HARD LABOUR FOR A FOSTER PARENT

The Hall Mark of a Superlative Product

سالاد

RAIL Y ROAD TRANSPORT.

Competition referred to by Minister.

CONFERENCE TO BE CALLED.

Rugby, Yesterday, Competition between road and rail transport was referred to by

TEACHING A CHILD TO WALK the Transport Minister, Mr. Pybus,

RATTAN

at the Commercial Motor Users Association lancheon to-day..

“THAT IS THE WAY I TEACH He said that there was a general

Finding Lo Kwan, (60), a U.S. Army pensioner, guilty of ill-treating an adopted child, a boy four years of age, Mr. Wynne-Jones, in the Central Police Court this morning, imposed a fine of $150 or one month's

· ́hard labour in default of payment, with an additional

three months' hard labour.

Mayor Wu's letter, but HIM TO WALK, AND SO DOES MY WIFE.” it is understood that the reply, when sent, will be a refusal to accede to the proposal for Chinese re- sumption of civic func- tions and control in Cha- pei, Kiangwan and Woo- sung areas. The refusal will be based, presum- ably, on the fact that such policing of these areas would mean the | carrying of arms by the Chinese, and this will be regarded as a menace to Supporting the Chairman were the previous year. In conse Japanese in the evacuat- the Hon. Mr. C. G. S. Mackie, quence of the reduced profit, and Messrs. Frank Austin, A. H. your Directors recommend that ed area. Compton, F. A. Joseph, H. H. H.

That net earnings were $179,592 less than in the previous year, was reported by the Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson who presided at the 45th ordinary annual general meeting of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., which was held in the Board Room of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., at noon to-day. The decrease in revenue is attributed in part to the political differences in the North and the boycott of Japanese goods.

Court this morning. When three wwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Chinese fishmongers were charged, before Mr. Wynne-Jones, with ob- struction.

Inspector Shaftain said that, for the past twenty years, fò his know

edge, these men had emptied their baskets of fish and sorted them

out on the footpath. The Police Crapnell (Secretary). objection was that they caused as obstruction. Also, after the fish

had been cleared away, the fact path was left very slimy. But the men were, more or less, obliged to use the footpath, owing to conges tion inside the market premises.

Priestley, J. P. Warren and T. B. Wilson (Directors), and F. H. The following shareholders were present, Messrs. L. Kadoorie (attorney for Sir Elly Kadoorie), J. T. Bagram, JM. Alves, P.-H. Sin, J. F. Wright, jun., J. Hyde, R. Sutherland, G. B. S. Thomson,

J. Dalziel and J. Robinson.

BANDITS ALMOST GET JAPANESE C. - IN - C.

GENERAL HONJO'S NARROW ESCAPE.

Train Attacked.

(Reuter's Pacific Service.)

Tokyo, To-day.

His Worship held that ill-treatment had been persistent and violent.

own child.

feeling that the heavy goods traffic situation called for some definite policy by the Government. He be- lieved that, if the problem were ap- proached in a co-operative spirit, differences could be narrowed down. He proposed to call a con- ference of railway and road trans- port representatives and to suggest to them that they should appoint a group of five' to seven people with an impartial Chairman to report their considered views on the pro- per functions of the railway and road.-British Wireless Service.

EDUCATIONAL ECONOMIES.

Over Six Millions Saved in Financial Year.

Rattan to Teach Child to Walk, Replying to his Worship as to Defendant, in a statement, what size the bowl was, the wit- said that he had been in the U.S. ness replied "The kind of big THE COST PER CHILD. Army for over 30 years and was bowl used by gentlemen." She the bonus to shareholders be re- No definite date has conversant with the rules of sani ate as much as the child, which

Rugby, Yesterday: duced to $2, making the dividend yet been fixed for the child, but his method of teach-sufficient.

tation. He never ill-treated the amount she thought was quite The Education Estimates for the and bonus $8 per share against withdrawal of the Japan- ing the child to walk was with

|coming financial year show an Witness; continuing, said that aggregate cost of £52,006,4615 $9 per share distributed for the year 1930.

ese forces. This is sald rattan. Everyone taught his the child ate so much that he This is a net decrease of $6,371,137 The condition of trade, espe-

He stated that the refused to walk. This happened on the cost for 1981. cially shipping, throughout the to hinge on the actions child was well-fed, and because often, several times a week Reductione are made under all world is so well known to all of and attitude of the Chin- of that he refused to walki SMW M Thomson (of

headings of the Estimates you that I need not enlarge ese military authorities, Miss Agnes Anderson, an In- you see anyone strike the child? Board of Education, Museums, Art Sitting on a Cuspider

SC.A. who prosecuted) DA charover the expenditure or the... upon the effects which it has but the Japanese Com- spector of the Society for the Yes, his mother, once, also his Galleries, Universities and Colleges. Grants under the new Estimates mander is understood to Protection of Children, said that father.

when she went to the defendant's Mr. Thomson -- How often?—of the local education - authorities. During the year, 866 steamers have expressed the opin house, on receipt of a complaint, Once in several weeks.

Įtotal £39,755,000, a decréase of pared with 902 in 1980. There ion that the conflict be she examined the child, and And the reason? - Because £5.981,000 was a considerable falling off in tween the rival forces found him to be very thin. There transhipments, the handling of| which we rely on a great deal as has reached an end.

had on our business.

The Northern Trouble.

discharged at the wharves com-

a source of revenue. The de- crease in revenue is also attri-i buted to consequences due to the outbreak of political differences in the North towards the end of the year and the boycott of Japanese gooda.

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Japan Covets China.

COUNTRY CATALOGUED BY JAPANESE STAFF OFFICERS:

were several marka about the body, and the legs were swollen.} On both occasions, when she visited the house, she found the child sitting on a cuspidor, clad very scantily.

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CHINESE SNIPERS ACTIVE AGAIN

JAPANESE CASUALTIES.

(Reuter's Pacific Service.)

Shanghai, To-day. Japanese reports say that the front line re-

Dr. Phoon Seck-wah, Medical Superintendent of the Tung Wah Hospital, gave testimony of his London, Yesterday. The New Wharf.

examination of the child, and **Japan for long has had eyes dealt in detail with the marks The new wharf to which I re- ferred at our last meeting will on China," said Colond P. T. and bruises found on the child's shortly be ready for use. It is stated from Mukden, that a train convey-tain amount of dredging is ne-metting of tendon, and added Dr. Phoon said that the bruises mains "exceedingly tranquil," but state that a de- Etherton speaking to-tlay at a person. A cer-

English-Speaking) Replying to Mr. Wynne-Jones, ing the Japanese Commander-in-Chief, General cessary to allow really large Honjo, to Mukden, was attacked by a party of vessels to approach and this is re- "Over a hundred staff officers could not have been caused by a plorable feature is the resumption of sniping acti- have travelled all over China for fall, this applying also to the dis-vities, the result of which being that the Japanese mounted bandits, about 300 strong. The attackers ceiving attention.

In the balance sheet under twelve years cataloguing the colouration of the knee. •The were repulsed by a detachment of Japanese troops Kowloon wharves, the sum of country, like a crowd of inven- defined bruises were caused by a have suffered two casualties at Kiating, one at which were hastened to the scene of the attack.

$618,978 since expended, is on tory men before a sale. The cane, in his opinion. The child account of the new wharf I have world is ignorant of this, but I was not, well nourished and was Liuho, and one at Nanziang, consequently the situa General Honjo was on his way back from just mentioned. The expenditure saw them."-Reuter.

in a weak state of health. It tion is viewed by the Japanese "with great appre- Changchun where he had attended Pu Yi's instal- of $51,389 against building is

was possible, he said, for the hension.” lation ceremony.

the cost of reconstruction of】 Colonel P. T. Etherton, who is child to be suffering from worms. godowns opposite the new wharf now 53 years of age, served in provide suitable space for Kitchener's Fighting Scouts in

Ho Po Chun, a general amah, of his idleness to walk.

The assumed cost per child "in transit cargo.

the South-African War 1900-02,

elementary education has been re- New Lighters.

and also saw service in the was called as a witness for the

Naughty Child? She said that it was Answering further questions duced from 418.7.9d. last year to of Northamptonshire Regiment in defence. Under Hghters, the sum out, he did not wish to interfere

$48,000 represents new craft built 1908 and in the Indian Army the part of her duty to look after the by Mr. Thomson, witness said $12.11.7d. This is the first decrease with the food supplies of tho Before I proceed with the or- to handle timber, long steel bars following year. He has travelled boy. She fed him at her leisure. that the child was very naughty for several years. The cost in Colony. He would like to hear the dinary business of the meeting, and similar material which cannot widely in Europe, Asia, Africa, He was fed on beef-tés, fish and at home, in that he played 1918-14 was £4.16.20. per child.

I wish to make special reference be conveniently handled on the Asis from India to England day. He ate a bowl and a bit each

Australia, and America, crossing pork with rice, three times a about, breaking jars and bowls, British Wireless Service: to the death of Mr. Wong Kam-wharves. tuk, our late Compradore. Mr. There does not appear to be any- through Pamirs, Chinese Turkes-meal. Wong joined the Company three thing else that requires special tan, Mongolia, Siberia, Russia years after its formation and

and Germany in 1909-1910. In

His Worship held that, if there were no other place to sort the fish

Sanitary Department's views on the matter.

Defendants, one of whom was ab- sent and had his bail of $5 estreat ed, were cautioned.

LLOYD GEORGE NOW

FULLY RECOVERED

Parliamentary Activities Expected.

Bugby, Yesterday, Mr. Lloyd George has now fully recovered from his serious illness andida.

ected to return short

work

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The

to

The Chairman said:-

Late Compradore..

mention.

When

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on a special mission to Central

Fed at Aman's Leisure.

dent in Chinese Turkestan til travel. Also Additional Assistant Judge In a broadcast appreciation 1924, during which time he was London, Yesterday.

therefore, had given the Company now beg to propose the adoption 1918 he was sent by Government tinents; The Pacifica forecast; 42 years' service. He was a man of the report and accounts. of distinguished character and this her poor and asco, Asia, and became H.H.M. Con- and Through Europe and the the Company and the progress deavour to answer any questions sul-General, and Political Resi- numerous articles on sport and the Company has made is due, shareholders may wish to ask to a large extent, to his devoted Seconded by the Hon. Mr. C. G. S. and loyal support. He will be Mackie and carried unanimously, greatly missed and I desire to place on record our appreciation

Other Business appointment of Mr. F A ctor of the Com

of his valuable services to the The Company

Josep

Mr. Wong Sik-chung, son of the late Compradore, has been appointed to succeed his father,

number of year whom he has assisted for a

and kept falling down...

Mr. Thomson Is it naughti ness to fall? I don't know whether it amounts to naughti- ness or not!

Driven to Walk with a Cane.

Defendant elected to make

FUNERAL OF M. BRIAND.

statement in the course of which he referred at length to domes- tic quarrels, and stated that the

to Be Represented. Defendant elected to make a King & Prime Minister

Rugby, Yesterday,

of H.B.M. Supreme Court for the late M. Briand, last night, charge was a frame up by the At the funeral of M. Briand in Chine

Lord Cecil said that it was M. witnesses for the prosecution. Paris on Saturday HM the King Briand who laid down the prinWhen a child is well fed, it al-will be represented by Lord. Tyrrell

Council ways, refus

to walk, although the British Ambassador in Paris, ciples which the Leng

led sald defendant. If he is and the Prime Minister by his son, sought to apply in the

driven with: rattan care, he Mr. Malcolm Macdonald Briti ern crisis. He adde

tree or four Wireless Japan

and then

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