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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1932.

OLD ESTABLISHED LOST AIRCRAFTSMEN

OPIUM BUSINESS.

Members of a Chinese

Family at Law.

PROPRIETORSHIP,

The Chinese family dispute over)

RETURN SAFELY.

A Walking Expedition Over Customs Pass.

LOST THEIR WAY.

Fears that were at first enter-

INTERNATIONAL TIN POOL. Chairman of Committee of Control Speaks Out.

ERRONEOUS REPORTS:

Rugby, Yesterday.

In view of the erroneous reports

an opium business, which was start-tained regarding the safety of two ed in Amoy in 1894 or 1895, of aircraftsmen, attached to the Kal in regard to tin held by the Inter- which one brother claims that he Tack Aerodrome, Kowloon City, national Tin Pool, the Chairman of is the sole proprietor, whilst another who set out on a walk with two the Committee of Control states brother and the eldest sons of two dogs, at half past eight o'clock that no part of the Pool's holding deceased brothers claim that it was yesterday morning, to Saikung via has been or will be released other family business, in which all have Customs Pass, and had not return-wise than in accordance with the equal shares, was continued before ed, according to a Police report, sliding scale of prices approved by the Chief Justice (Sir Joseph H. have now been dispersed. Kemp, K.C.) in the Supreme Court

The men, Aircraftsman Williams, International Tin Quota Agree- the Government's signatory to the this morning.

and Aircraftsman Rushmer, set out, mont. Mr. H. G. Sheldon, who with Mr. on the walk with an Alsatian and Leo d'Almada, jun. (instructed by a Cooker Spaniel, and on leaving per cent, of the Pool's holding, will The first release, amounting to 5 Messrs. Woo and Nash) is appear- the Aerodrome, stated that they be made only if and when the ing for the plaintiffs, called the were going to walk over Custome average price of spot tin on the

Pass in the direction of Saikung. London Metal Exchange has

third plaintiff to give evidence.

ex-

This man, who gave his name as They returned this morning on ceeded 2165 per ton during the Hung Yu-fai, allas Hung Shau-hing, their own. It is thought that they completed calendar month.-British said that he was 62 years of age, had probably lost their way yester Wireless Service, and was the youngest of four day, and had to wait until daylight brothers, of whom the defendant is to-day, before they could retrace

*

U. S. BILL PENALISING THREATENING LETTERS.

Washington, Yesterday.

SHANGHAI NEWS.

(Continued from Page 1.) League Assembly's Likely Decision To-day.

Geneva, To-day.

It is expected that the decision

to-day by the

the second. The first and third, their path. brothers are dead. When their father died he left only a small amount of money to his four sons. About 85 or 36 years ago, a na- tive banking firm, called the Kin Cheong, was started in Amoy and Spurred to action by the Lind- to be taken witness took a $2,000 share in it. bergh kidnapping case, the House League Assembly, in connection This $2,000 was subscribed by the of Representatives has passed a with the Sino-Japanese dispute, four brothers in equal shares. Bill making the despatch of will embody a declaration uphold- Shortly after witness joined threatening letters through the ing the Kellogg Pact, League, the banking firm, the de- United States Malls a crime Covenant, sanctity of Treaties, fendant went into business as punishable with twenty years' im- deprecating boycotting, and re- the Wing Hing firm, dealers prisonment and a fine of five thou- in Szechuan and Yunnan opium sand dollars-Reuter's American

which he bought from Shanghai and Service. sold in Amoy. Defendant had no capital and borrowed from the bank- ing firm. Bills were drawn ст this firm and paid by it.

Defendant also had no business premises and did his business from the premises of the Kin Cheong firm. Three months after the de- fendant started his business, the {cldest brother began the Kai Sul firm, dealing in Indian opium. This firm had premises of its own. The premises were still there but no business. Some employees of the firm are in the premises. Some of these fokis were old and some new, and witness did not know the new ones.

After the opening of the Kai Sul firm, the defendant helped the eldest brother in the business, and his) own firm, the Wing Hing, became more or less amalgamated with the Kai Sui firm. The Wing Hing's signboard was bung uaptaira, in small. lettera. The eldest brother was the chief of the company and managed both Kal Sul and the Wing Hing firms.

The case is proceeding.

Messrs. Eldon Potter, K.C. and F. C. Jenkin, K.C. (Instructed by Messrs. Russ and Co.) are counsel

for

the defendant

(Hung Hui-

OVERCAST.

The Royal Observatory's report issued this morning `states:-

The anticyclone has weaken. ed. It is now central S.W. of Tokyo, moving E.N.E.

A shallow depression covers China.

Forecast:-N.E. or variable winds, moderate to light; over- cart, foggy,

Rainfall Rainfall for 24 hours end- ed at 10 am to-day 0.02 inch. Total since January 1-2.55 inches against an average of 8.82 inches deffelt inches.

Temperature. Hong Kong

Macao

68 65

Pratas Inland

72

Manila

68

Foochow

58

Amoy

89

Swatow Chefco Shanghai

48

#

ching). The other two plaintiff's churia,"

1.27

commending the constitution of

a committee to be composed of Members of the League Council, also six to eight Members of the amailer States, which will en- deavour to obtain a cessation of hostlities and the withdrawal of the Japanese forcés.

A Round Table Conference would be held, after the fulfil ment of the foregoing conditions, to discuss the totality of the Sino-Japanese dispute.-Reuter, U.S. Infantry to Withdraw?

Washington, Yesterday. Government is considering the withdrawal of the Thirty-First United States Infantry from Shanghai to Manila. - Reuter's American' Service.

Manchuria.

Soviet System Averted.

London, Yesterday. In a leader to-day, in connec tion with the accession of Henry Pu Yi, the Morning Post says, that it was appropriate that Mr. Uchida ahould have given away the bride owing to "Japan's vital interests in Manchuria

China, the paper goes on to say, complains only of Japan to the League, but let us not forget that China allowed the Soviet to penetrate and organise outer

are Hung Yuk-sau and Hung Kung-(Jarrolds, 128. Gd.), cheong, and they appear as first and are Colonel P. T. Etherton, the Republic. If Japan did not main- Its authors like province is now a Soviet second plaintiffs by virtue of the well-known traveller, and Mr. H. tain a hold on Manchuria, we fact that they are eldest sons of the Hessell Tutman. two deceased brothers who were

may be certafn' it would speedily both senior to the third plaintiff. eventual repercussions of this ac- tem, a contingency Lord Cecil The authors say: "Regarding the become a part of the Soviet sys-

FUTURE OF MANCHURIA.

cident of history which has brought and his friends possibly over- the two yellow races face to face looked. As things are, Manchuria (upon the mainland of Asia, the owes her amazing prosperity to "It is safe to predict that Man-issues raised are pregnant with the two things firstly, the strong churia will remain the cockpit of destiny of nations-not only

of arm of Japan, and secondly, mis- Asia for half a century, to come." China and Japan, but the great rule in China which makes Man This prophecy is made fo "Man-Powers also. No end is in sight." churia a haven of refuge for

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