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HONG KONG, TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1932.

SLUMP IN U. S. SECURITIES.

President Hoover Perturbed.

SUMMONING A CONFERENCE.

New York, To-day.

“KRASSIN” IN ARCTIC LAND QUESTIONS

EXPEDITION.

IN KENYA.

Commission of Inquiry Appointed.

Professor Samoilivitch

in New Enterprise.

AEROPLANES TO BE USED. NATIVE POPULATION NEEDS.

London, Yesterday,

Rugby, Yesterday. In view of the concern with which An Arctic expedition, with the The Secretary for the Colonies the Administration regards the per-object of discovering the short-has appointed Sir William Carter, sistent fall in the prices of securi-est air-route from Europe to late Chief Justice in Tanganyika, ties, President Hoover has under-America via Franz Josef Land and to be Chairman of the Commission taken to arrange a conference of the North Pole, is to be under- of Inquiry into Land Questions in Congressional and business leaders taken by Professor Samoilivitch, Kenya.

States.

|to devise means of inproving the famous explorer who res- Other members are:-Captain economic conditions in the United caed Nobile's airship and crew Frank Wilson of Kenya, and Mr. with the Soviet icebreaker Rupert Hemsted, late Senior Com- "Krassin," which he intends to missioner Cold Water.

in the Kenya Govern-1 use in the few expedition. He ment Service, with Mr. S. H. Fazan Mr. Whitney, the President of the also will take aeroplanes along of the Kenya Administrative Ser- New York Stock Exchange, has with the expedition.

vice as Secretary. thrown cold water on the reports of Professor Samoilivitch hopes The Commission la asked to con- arrival in sider inter alia the needs of the

a bear raid on April 11. He told a in 1933 to see the

Committee of Enquiry that bear Alaska if the first Russian air-native population, present and raiding did not influence the market ship built on Nobile's system. and declared that the recent fall was Reuter. due to bona fide liquidation.Reu-

ter's American Service.

LIFE SENTENCE PRISONER'S DEATH.

In Victoria Jail.

"NATURAL CAUSES."

Wong Sou-tang, who was sen- tenced at Wei-hai-wei, on Febru Jary 12, 1929, to penal servitude for life, for robbery with aggravation, died in Victoria Jail hospital last night.

In the Central Police Court this morning, Mr. W. Schofeld

(&B Coroner) conducted an enquiry, be-| ing assisted by a jury composed of Messra. J. R. Way (foreman), H. Davenport Browne and J. A. dej C. Vieira Ribeiro.

STOP PRESS

Harbin, To-day.

The Old Kirin Army, which recently occupied Heng Tao- hotze, where one of their lead- ers, General Li Du, is expect- ed to arrive to-day, searching all passengers ar- riving by train upon their ar- rival.

are

It is expected that a body of 300 Chinese and Korean Com- munista, well-armed and speak- ing Russian fluently, were transported, free of charge, from Hailin to Li Bao-hotze on April 9.

A Russian fireman and three Chinese railway workers have been taken prisoners by mounted bandits at Sanda- voda, near Heng Tao-hotze, Reuter.

Dr. J. V. A. Griffiths said that wh

the prisoner died from acute pul- RETRENCHMENT COMMISSION'S

monary tuberculosis. He was ad- mitted to hospital on February 16

of this year, and was treated but

absolutely failed to respond.

RECOMMENDATIONS.

(Continued from Paga 11.)

Chief Warder G. Buchanan said substitution of one sergeant for one that the prisoner was admitted to sergeant major in the Police Train- Victoria Jall from Wei-hal-wei oning School in the Cantonese con

March 19, 1929.

tingent are recommended.

prospective, with respect to land, and the desirability and practic- ability of setting aside further areas for the present or future oc cupancy of communities or indivi duals of recognised tribes and of detribalised natives.

Among other duties is that of defining the area known as "high- lands" within which persons of European descent are to have the privilege of position. British Wireless Service.

BOMBING 'PLANES AND AMERICA.

Prepared to Advocate Abolition.

Geneva,, Yesterday,

Mr. Gibson has intimated that he is prepared, later, to ad- vocate the abolition of bombing 'planes.

Sir John Simon warmly sup- ported the American proposals.

Herr Nadolny (Germany) urg- │ed the reduction of armamenta to the lowest limit compatible with national security.

M. Tardieu sympathised with Mr. Gibson's idea, but considered that the French proposals went farther than Mr. Gibson's, which were applied solely to land wea- pong and were, therefore, con-

ments. -

Reuter.

arma-

In reply to the Coroner, witness! 11.-The Northern Chinese contrary to the French argument of jsaid that during his incarceration❘ tiagent should be reduced by the interdependence of

here, prisoner never complained eighteen constables. about his diet ог treatment. 12. In the clerical and · Inter- Whilst in hospital, prisoner was preter staff there is little that can given regulation diet.

The jury, without retiring, re- turned a verdict of "Death from natural causes.”

CHILD'S ORDEAL.

Sydney.

be done. One post of interpreter (Class IV) and one of telephone clerk (Class IV) should be abolish- ed, as should also the two posts of Indian teacher and Chinese teacher at the Police Training School. The Commissioners are satisfied that

MRS. LINDBERGH COLLAPSES.

Cruel Disappointment.

New York, Yesterday,

there would be greater efficiency, in It is reported that Mra. Lind- addition to economy, if the services bergh has collensed under the The two-year-old daughter of of the European Assistant Store- cruel disappointment of yester- Mrs. Johnson, who was spending keeper were dispensed with; the day's double-crossing. Reuter's her holidays at Rowenfels, experi- post being filled by a locally re- American Service. enced a painful ordeal 'when her cruited Portuguese.

Greenwich, Connecticut, elder brother pushed a tin pot over 19. Miscellaneous, reductions re- her head. The girl screamed. Her commended are the abolition of one

To-day. A twenty-dollar note, bearing the mother and others were unable to post of Chinese motor mechanic, serial number of one of the notes remove the pat by pulling it off-two boatmen and thirteen coolies. paid by Colonel Lindbergh to the Finally it was cut away with a pair 14. The Commissioners consider-kidnappers, was presented at a local of garden secateurs. The child ed the question of handing over to bakery by a woman who, however, showed great fortitude, although the military certain of the frontier when she discovered that the num

was finding it difficult to atations. They are of the opinion ber of the bill had been identified, "breathe, In the end she was al- that it would not be practicable to grabbed the note and fled.-Reuter's most black in the face.

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