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The China Mail,

80-

MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1932,

MED ROBBERY. US Police Fight With 3,000

Inmates Bound and

Gagged

ONE MAN ARRESTED.

Unemployed

Legion Dropped Bonus. The request for the $2,000,

Yau Yuk-ying (31), *a married woman Hving on the Brst floor of 11. Chi Woo Street, reported to the Police that at about 4.30 o'clock 000,000 for soldiers' bonuses was on Saturday morning," she was dropped by the American Legion awakened by a noise in the sitting at the Annual Convention held at

room.

Hoover's Powers.

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Washington's claim to bave balanced the Budget, according to the New York Evening Post.

J It is pointed out that after allow ing for President Hoover's demand for a reduction of G$960,000,000, the Budget for 1983 will amount to G$4,000,000,000, The total tarz tion yield of the present fiscal year is expected to be under G$2,000,-

She was told by her amsh that Detroit last Summer after a per- two Chinese men had entered the sonal appeal had been made by floor by the fan-light above the President Hoover. stair door. One of them was armi- ed with a knife, and they were joined by a third man who came a few minutes later.

A warning that it may be ne000,000. Assuming a similar yield After binding and gagging the cessary to give President Hoover in 1983, plus G$1,119,000,000 pro- inmates, the robbers stole a small extraordinary powers to curb vided for by the supplementary

Personal Pars.

New York, To-day.

quantity of jewellery and cloth- ing. An alarm was raised and one the economic ills, was uttered by man was subsequently arrested. Owen D. Young, who declared that the co-related problems of the banking system and com- merce were threatened by the The forthcoming marriages are announced of Frank Lee, of 46, lack of centralised authority. Village Road, Happy Valley, and Likening the current slump Ellen Martha Field, of Savarin values to an avalanche, he said House, Kowicon; and of Teo Sing- that no upward trend would be llao, Professor of the University of possible, unless all values went Shanghai, living at 29, Man Chung up, also there could be no per Fong, Happy Valley, and Mabel Wan manency unless they had a fair, Chinn, of the same address.

sound balance in all economic units. Reuter's American Ser-

The following Police officers pro-vice. cceded on Home leave on the P. & O. se. Ranchi on Saturday.

Sergeant J. Shepherd, the Inter- port footballer,

Sergeant W. S. McHardy, of the [C.I.D. the Police association goal-|

keeper.

Sergeant G. F. Youe, the Police | champion swimmer.

News in Brief.

New York, Yesterday. Wall Street is sceptical about

"SLIDING DOWN THE HILL"

"Brazen" Divorce and Growth of Crime.

London, May 8.

Revenue Bill, the total will be under G$3,120,000,000 leaving a de fleit of G$880,000,000.

If, as seems inevitable, addi- tional large sume are appropriated", for public relief, Wall Street ex- pects the United States to be.com- pelled to borrow between G$1,500,000,000 and G$2,500,000,000 next year.-Reuter's American. Service,

Revenue Bill Passed.

Washington, Yesterday. The House of Representatives has passed the Revenue Bill- Reuter's American Service,

“HIKING” IN MALAYAN JUNGLES

Strange Habits of the Natives.

"Hiking" through Malayan jung-

Dr. Henry Wilson, the Bishop of les with a camera is the hobby, "a Chelmsford, has воте vigorous

both interesting and thrilling one,. things to say to-day about divorce, of a Blackpool man, Mr. F. J.. gambling, and the increase in crime, Barnett, A.M.I.EE, AMIRSE. who is at present home on leave which, he suggested, presented a

from Malaya. problem for which religion was the only remedy.

Sergeant G. 5. Alexander, who was in charge of the Emergency which possesses à distinctly Unit, during the anti-Japanese riots cialist flavour, and on the continued in September last year.

Sergeants A, McRobble, W. B. approval of all those groups his Harris, D. Browne, and T, M. Wey- existence in office depends. Themes. composition of his Cabinet makes strange reading, and it is likely that the more dominant Ministers will over-ride" Herriat. The Tardieu

Three cases of typhoid fever and group, which now includes Pierre to the M.O.H. yesterday,

one case of meningitis were notified

Laval and his followers, will provide a ati opposition and the forecast

The Rev. P. Sande, M.A, former ly Assistant Secretary at - the of one prominent French writer European Y.M.C.A., Kowloon and

"Even those people whose views on the divorce question are not of that Tardieu would be Premier once Lay-Reader at St. Andrew's Church, the strictest order must be very again at the end of the year is has been appointed a Padre to Toc uneasy at the enormous increase in likely to be proved correct. In the H, East Midland Area.

divorce cases and, what is even At last M. Herriot has succeeded meantime the doubts. concerning

more serious, in my judgment, the Whilst working at the Kam Wah brazen disregard of delicate feeling, In forming a Cabinet, and the the stability of the Herriot Minia- Knitting Factory, a female `em-

Hong Kong, Monday, Jäme &, 1982,

The French Cabinet.

Writing in his monthly diocesan letter, he says:

Mr. Barnett, whose home. is in. Park Road, is an electrical en.. ginger in Government Service in the - Federated Malay States. He re- turns to duty in October this year. "I have done 18 years' service overseas already," he said. "Nine. years in the Far East and nine in the West Indies.

complicated political situation in try will do little to aid the con-ployee, Sau Chi-tai (30) had her 40 often shown by these people, both Jungle with a camera and two native,

OUR SPIRIT OF

DISCIPLINE

next

"During my last spell in Malaya enjoyed many week-ends in the

Paris is cleared for the present. ferences to be held within the next machinery, and sustained a com that betting and gambling were

in public and in private

guides as my companions.. (right "arm' accidentally -- drawn into?"

"Again, one would have thought The procent condition of Europe-weeks.

Big Game Spoor pound fracture.

She was sent to recognised, not merely by religious whose bites cause wounds which "My only dread was the leeches, and for that matter the whole world It is interesting to note that the Kowloon Hospital. -centres keen interest

people but by all sensible people, as bloed freely. I crossed many on any Herriot has taken the portfolio for change of Government and as the Foreign: Affairs himself.

The new Cottage Hospital for having done quite enough mischief animal tracks and saw the spoor of A much women and children, at Kam Tin,

to the nation.

Higers,

elephants and other fierce French polley is of such paramount more obvious choice would have New Territories, will be formal. "But instead of that there is a

creatures." importance in Europe, events at been M. Paul Boncour, whose incluly opened on Wednesday

very strong move to encourage Mr. Barnett smiled, Paris have been closely followed sion in the Cabinet is somewhat sur- by the Hon. Dr. A. R. Welling possible scale by the legalisation of animal except at the Zoo i”

betting and gambling on the wideat he said, "I have never seen a wild. 'Actually,"

ever since the fall of the Laval prising.

ton, Director of Medical and sweepstakes and the dangling be Boncour, like Briand, is Sanitary, Services. One or two fore the eyes of our young people Tikes Mr. Barnett told how he Ministry last Ferbuary.

Describing one of his many. The pre- aloof from Party strife and he is special buses will be run from the of the dazzling prospect of securing pressed through the jungle,, through sent and approaching Conferenc, seldom out of office. As the last Star Ferry 4 3.47 £30,000 for 108. particularly Disarament and Lau- President of the League Council he

"The Home Secretary's diagnosis until he came to a native camp at dripping undergrowth waist high, sanne, add to the Importance of the established a reputation' as an in-

of the reasons for the increase in the foot of a mountain. French policy, and perturbation ternationalist and a pacifist. It is

crime was very Inadequate. Re-"The camp," he said, "consisted existed abroad. Without a stable!

ligion is the only force which is of three huts and a plot of land.. consequently a shock to find him the Government in power French states-cow Minister of War, and he is evi- Brazilian Ambassador's nation beautifully-coloured butterings

gping to steady the life of the This was literally swarming with men are unable to speak with au-dently more versatile than generally

Tribute.

"In these days, in many of our A tropical downpour seat him: thority at international conferences,

schools, religious knowledge, if scurrying to shelter under one. thought. The outstanding figure which, in consequence, are either in the Cabinet, M. Painleve who Alice Countess of Athlone were the in It

The Earl of Athlone and Princess von in an eviscerated form by of the huts delayed or abandoned.

hore, Mr. Barnett French

people who do not necesarily believe sald, he

away the time by aspires to the Presidency as guests of honour at the Mansion "One of these days, probably not for bamboo ornaments musical in- politics have always been inexpll-Minister of Air is relegated to a House when the Lord Mayor's before we have slid down the hillstruments and native blowpipes

bartering htly-coloured beads cable and the speed with which Gov-minor post but it is probable that he Eastern Banquet was held. ernments can be disposed of or re-will extend his sphere of influence The function is one of the most much further, some statesman will When the Pain surrected has always amazed on-beyond that department.

ancient of the City institutions, nation: shall support: every effort tapping the

come forward to demand that the managed to ge

natives: lookers While Briand was in From the personal aspect the preached earlier in the day, is, con- to impart definite religious Instruc: darts," said Mr. Barnett.

and with the annual Spital sermon, being made by the Christian Church from which they get polson for their tree, the tree from office the passing of Governments Cabinet is as potentially strong as cerned with the well-being of the tion to children, but that day does was more or less inconsequential as the former Laval an Tardieu Royal hospitals d the sphere of Briand's Influence en-Cabinets, but a lack of unity and a The Lord Mayor, Sir Maurice not look like dawning at present" sured a fairly permament and con- conflict of views may prove ita Jenks, proposing the toast of sistent foreign policy

angiervan Ambassadors and Foreign Minis PENINSULA HOTEL Now, downfall. Laval, who a few months tere said that in the success however, poll Cal crisis at Paris age appeared Irmely entrenched solution of international probl

Second Symphonic is of more moment as between the for some time, failed through his the City of policies of Laval, Tardied and break with Briand and through fils mora vast

Concert.

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