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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1932.

DEATH OF MR. CARLOS U.S. BANKS CONTROL

A.R. D'ASSUMPCAO.

Old Resident of the Colony.

SUDDEN HEART ATTACK.

The Portuguese community of Hong Kong learnt with considerable regret of the death, which took place

SCHEME.

Meyer Formula in

Preparation."

AVOID FAILURES. New York, Yesterday.

A scheme to bring all

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SHIPS' CARGO PILLAGERS.

International Gang at Work.

TWO WOMEN ARRESTED.

Widespread

Antwerp, Yesterday.

pillaging of last night, of Mr. Carlos Augusto America's twenty two cargoes in ships bound for Aus- Rocha d'Assumpeus, at his residence thousand banks under volving thousands

tralia, America and Japan, in- in Peace Avenue, Homuntin. The

of pounds deceased was an old resident of Federal control is being sterling, has caused the Police Hong Kong, and was held in high formulated

here to issue a warning to world. Mr.ports as they have reason to be- esteem by members of his com munity, with whom he was extreme Eugene Meyer, Gov-lieve that an international gang ly popular.

ernor of the Federal is at work. Although the late Mr. d'Assump Reserve Board, as a re-rested,, two of whom are women, Eight persons have been ar- cao had been in indifferent healthsult of the recent agree-who are alleged, by the police, to for some considerable time, his sudden demise came as a shock toment arrived at between have been discovered emptying his most intimate friends. It was Mr. Meyer and Senator ashes.Reuter.

cases and filling them up with while at dinner that he was seized Glass, Chairman of the within ten minutes he had passed Senate Banking Com-

with A sudden heart attack and

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Rocha, he was jorn at Macao 69

years ago, and spent all his life until many of the failures of retirement in the service of the small banks could have] Portuguese Government; first

Chief Interpreter in the Department been avoidable if there of the Chinese Secretariat, then as had been a unified sys-

FAULTY CONDITION

OF LORRY.

Cause of Injury to Four Persons.

DRIVER FINED.

The recent motor lorry accident]

Head of the same Department, and tem of control. Reu-in Shaukiwan Road, when a lorry,

as Chinese interpreter accompany-

ing various political Migons which ter's American Service. from time to ilme proceeded to Peking. He held the position of Secretary to the Portuguese Lega- tion at Peking in 1902.

The deceased was married to Donna Merlinde de Senna Fernandes, who predeceased himl many years ago.

His official career dates back to 1894, when he held the position of Vice-Consul for Portugal in Shang- hal. He

Was a member of the Portuguese Commission

At the

Opium Conference held in 1908-

ASSISTANCE FOR

BRITISH AGRICULTURISTS,

Quota For Foreign Wheat Imports.

GUARANTEED PRICE.

London, Yesterday.

laden with fish, suddenly, and for some unexplained reason, turned to the left and then overturned. injuring four persons who had to be taken to hospital for treatment, had its sequel in the Central Police Court this morning before Mr. W. Schofield. The owner was aummoned for having kept the lorry in a bad condition, and for having inefficient brakes on the. vehicle..

Acting Sub-Inspector Saunders atated that the lorry was old, the front brakes were useless and the axle was out of alignment. It was. The essential part of Govern-almost certain that the accident 1909, Consul for Portugal ment's scheme to relieve the de- was due to the faulty condition of in Canton il the momentous pressed agricultural industry was the lorry. years of 1910-1911, from whence carried through to-night, when

Finea totalling $35 he retired from the Government the House of Commons by 398

were imposed. service and settled with his large votes to 68 passed the third read- the time of the accident, was un- The driver of the lorry, who, at. family in Hong Kong. He lived at ing of the Wheat Bill establish- able to explain the sudden turn to Kowloon ever since, until hinting a quota for foreign wheat the left, was fined $10.

death yesterday.

and_guaranteeing a fixed price to British growers.-Reuter.

ALIMONY WIVES.

£700,000 Awarded To Them Last Year.

The record figure of nearly £1,000,000 was claimed for alimony

In recognition fo his services he was decorated at the early age of 19 years with the Order of Isabela Catholica by the Spanish Govern- ment, with the Order of the Double Dragon by the Chinese Govern. ment and was a Knight of the Order of Christ of Portugal, being also invested with the Order of St. Thiago by his own Government. and maintenance by wives who

The members of the family of the late Mr. d'Assumpcao who are left to mourn his loss

GERMAN ELECTIONS.

Hohenzollern for Prussia Diet.

EX-CROWN PRINCE AND PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

Berlin, Yesterday.

figured in divorce cases last year. How the German ex-Crown The cases for the year totalled Prince's candidature for the Presi

C. P. (son), solicitor practising af for any post-war year.

are Jose nearly 4,000, the largest number dential election was quashed by Macao, the Mines Ana, Guil-

the ex-Kaiser. Is now revealed in a hermina, Merlinde, Ines, Maria, cases guilty wives, who had been

"In quite five per cent. of these Monarchist newspaper Fredericus. Edith, Leonor, Amalia (daughters), left stranded, claimed, and are get- National opposition partly ap It is stated that leaders of the Carlos A., Jr. (son), of Messrs. ting, maintenance from the husband proached Botelho Bros., Bernardino (son), whe divorced them." said a divorce about standing.

the ex-Crown Prince! of the Great Northern Telegraph official.

He was willing. Co., and Mrs. Bernardino

but referred the matter to the ex- d'Assumpcao,

"In many cases fantastic claims Kaiser who refused sanction. and Mrs. Maria for alimony were made, but these Emilia. Ferreira (sister), of Macao, on examination by the court regis Kaiser's fourth son, is numbered Prince August Wilhelm,, the ex- to whom the sympathy of the comtrar were reduced to a reasonable seven on the electoral list of the munity will be extended in their bereavement.

proportion of the husband's income. Nazis for the Prussian election on A total of more than £700,000 in April 24. This is equivalent to The funeral takes place this alimony and maintenance is being becoming a Deputy of the Prussian afternoon, the cortere passing the paid by husbands who appeared in Diet in which he will be the first Monument at 5.80 p.m.

cases last year.”

Hohenzollern to sit-Reuter.

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