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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1932.

LEAGUE OF NATIONS SOCIETY, HONG KONG

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING.

The

LIBEL ACTION AGAINST DAILY MAIL. *

annual meeting of the Jurors Witness "Talkie" above Society will be held to-

of Trance Sermons. morrow at 5.16 p.m. in St. John's' Cathedral Hall. It is earnestly) hoped that all members will make a point of being present.

Agenda.

1-Secretary's Report.

2-Treasurer's Report,

3.-President's Address.

MICROPHONE ROPE BREAKS ?

(Reuter's Special Service.))

London, Yesterday.

H. K. UNIVERSITY MEDICAL FACULTY. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING.

An appeal for better co-opera- tion between the members and the committee was made by Mr. K. C. Lam, when he presided at the an- nual general meeting of the Hong Kong University Medical Faculty held in the Union Assembly Room yesterday afternoon.

The following officers were elect- "A "talkie" of one of Mrs. ed for the current year:- 4-The follow Resolution will be Morris's trance sermons wag

heard and seen to-day by jurors Hon. Treasurer, Prof. L.. T. Ride; President, Prof. W. I. Gerrard; proposed "That this Annual Meeting of before resumption of the hearing Chairman, Mr. K. C. Lam; Hon. the League of Nations Society, of the libel action she has Secretary, Mr. C. F. Lo; Sixth Hong Kong, desires to express brought against the Daily Mail. Year Representative, to be left to its whole-hearted support of It had been suggested that the objects and general policy "psychic forces" broke the rope G. K. Lim; Fourth Year, Mr. P. P. of the League of Nations, and used to hold the microphone in Chiu: Third Year, Miss C. Wong: in particular of its efforts to the studio during the production Second Year, Mr. P. F. Woo; deal with the present situation of the "talkie," but a staff mem- First Year, Mr. C. K. Wong: ber expressed the more mundane Graduato Representative, Dr. F. S. view that excessive heat from a

in the Far East." 5-Election of Officers.

6. Any other business.

GREAT GOLD

PLOT.

I am the Man Who Tried to Break

the Bank of England!

I am

I am not a high financier. not in the pay of a foreign Power.]

I am the man who strap-hangs in the 9.37 to town.

the Committee; Fifth Year, Mr.

lamp had caused the rope to Fernando. split.

Mr. Lam thanked the committee on behalf of the Faculty for their ILLEGAL POSSESSION hard work during the year, He specially mentioned the names of Mr. Goh, and Prof. Ride.

OF OPIUM.

Defendant's Excuse.

TO AVOID SALE OF YOUNGER

BROTHER.

And I thought as I looked around

A fine of $7,000, with the alter- the compartment this morning: native of one year's hard labour, "You poor fish! You little think was imposed by Magistrate Schofield you will be coming to me about your in the Central Police Court this overdrafts by the end of the week morning, or a Chinese who admitted that I shall be writing to the Chan-possession

The meeting terminated with a vote of thanks to the Hon. Trea- surer and the Chairman.

EVADING PAYMENT OF DUTY ON WINE.

A "New Idea."

A "new idea" for evading the pay- of 65 tuela of illicit ment of duty on wine was revealed

cellor of the Exchequer, and saying, opium. Defendant pleaded that in the Central Police Court this "Dear Sir, Unless... ." and making his mother, through poverty, had morning, when a Chinese youth bim increase the income-tax if I proposed selling his younger bro- stood in the dock before Mr. Wynne- feel like it.

ther, and he undertook this job in Jones, charged with the possession order to help her out.

My plot was quite simple. A sovereign is worth 278. 6d. My £10) note says, "Bank of England pro- mise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of ten pounds."

All I had to do was

Go to the Bank of England and

nak for gold sovereigns for my £10 note:

$.S. 63

HAI-CHING.”

Limps Into Port.

NOW IN DOCK.

of half a gallon of wine, on which duty had been evaded. Revenue- Officer Ward atated that the wine I was found concealed in the hollow of an ordinary bamboo pole. He add- ed that the wine was, in such in- stances, tipped into jars in the street, outside the wharf. A fine of $10 or seven day's jail was im-

Slip over the way and sell them The Douglas Steamship Co's., 6.8. posed. for £13 15s, to a bullion-broker; Hai-Ching arrived in Hong Kong Run back again for 19 gold this morning, having completed her Rovereigns:

voyage, in spite of the fact that Back to the bullion-broker for £17, she struck a rock, when approach- 178. 6d. ;

ing Foochow last Thursday. On arrival this morning, the Hai-

And so on....

I calculated that if I did that 30, Ching was docked in No. 2 dock at times in a day, allowing for 10 the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock minutes argument with the cashier, Co., Ltd's, yard and repair work and the bullion-broker, I should be, was put in hand immediately. worth over £188,000 at the end of

the day.

MENINGITIS.

Clean Sheet

To-day.

Interviewed by a China Mail re- presentative at noon to-day, Dr. G.

A China Mall representative was Pope, Medical Oficer of Health, informed that it will be necessary said that no cases of meningitis had By the end of the week (my brain to replace several plates, and that been reported up to that time, so was dizzy with calculations by this the bow of the boat had been that so far there is a clean sheet for time) I should be a multi-millionaire damaged below the waterline. The to-day.

and the Bank would be pretty well inrush of water had damaged cargo yesterday.

broke.

It was all so simple. I burried to

in several of the holds.

It is expected that the Hal-Ching the Bank, chose a bullion-dealer con- will resume her usual

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veniently near and Inquired Inno- Friday. cently whether he would give me 27. 6d. for every sovereign I brought him.

His smile becane sinister. "Yes." Quite unsuspecting, he said,' decided to sack him.

I

Four cases were reported

WORLD'S FIRST MURDER.

Evidence of a suspected pre- historic murder is being investigat- ed by East African scientistä in- stead of the police.

The famous Oldoway Man of Tanganyika, who was discovered by

Then I went into the cashier's He turned away.. He brought department of the Bank, carefully out a sheet of printed paper. measuring the number of steps "You will find from this," he said, a German professor before the War from across the road, because time still smiling, "that the Bank need is now stated by Dr. Leakey, the would be worth hundreds of thou- not give gold for Bank notes..." noted archaelogiat, to be at least sands of pounds to me.

↑ I was still locking dazedly at the 25,000 years earlier than any known He was a nice cashier. I decid- Gold Standard (Amendment) Act.example of "home sapiens." ed I would keep him on when I So the greatest financial plot in But this man was apparently owned the Bank. He smiled. history failed. But it needed an bound tightly after death and then "I want ten gold sovereigns for Act of Parliament to stop me.- buried in shallow water. Foul play! this," I said, offering my £10 note., Daily Herald correspondent. is suspected.

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