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Hong Kong, Thursday, June 8, 1932.

Manchuria.

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GIRL SEES MOTHER MURDERED.

ten

New Territories Crime.

ROBBER STEALS $400.

A girl, named 'Lok Lui-kau, aged

years, alone witnessed the

THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1932.

Import and Export.

Revenue

Net Total of $9,226,444.03 Collected in 1931

gruesome murder of her mother INCREASES SHOWN IN DUTY ON

Tang Lin, aged 41 years, in a

hamlet in Wong Yak Village in' Au Tau district, New Ter- ritories, in the early hours of this morning.

The crime, according to the girl,

was perpetrated by two unknown

Chinese men, of whom she was un- able to give a full description. She asserts that either a chopper or a knife was used by the men.

After ransacking the premises, the

intruders escaped in an

unknown

direction, and are still at large.

They stole $400 in bank notes.

Girl Terrorised.

the

The girl, in her report to Police, at Au Tau, stated that short ly after two o'clock, whilst asleep with her mother on a wooden-bed in a rear cubicle of 82 Wong Yuk

She

LIQUOR, TOBACCO & OPIUM

Net revenue totalling $9,226,444.03, derived from four sources, is returned by the Superinten- dent of Imports and Exports in his report for the year 1931,

Of the revenue from liquor, $1,015,873.16 was derived from duty collected on imported European type liquor.

Substantial increases in revenue are shown under the heads of Liquor, Tobacco and Opium, while the collection on Motor Spirit remain steady.

Liquor,

The net revenue collected

than in 1930. There was a great Was déal of smuggling of Chinese made Village, she was suddenly awakened $2,418,898.94 as compared with tobacco, and seizures increased con- siderably. A large amount of this $1,689,948.52 for 1930. The in- smuggling was across the Sham

not shout for asistance.

.

saw

The prices of prepared oplum

by some disturbance. Itwo men struggling with her,

mother, who fell to the ground and crease to a great extent was due to Shun River into the New Terri- lay moaning. She died soon after. duty on imported liquor being col- tories, and many seizures were made The men did not speak to the girl,lected on a sterling basis, the dollar there by the Police. The local who, terrorised with fright, dared, being taken as equivalent to ane cigarette factories were fully em-

shilling and eight pence, and the ployed. Box Broken Open. jactual amount of duty payable in

Motor Spirit. She saw one of them break open local currency varying with a factor

The collection on motor spirit re- a box with a chopper and take a which was altered from time to time mained steady at $425,358.95. The smaller casket, which contained as the sterling market rate of the duty was increased by ten cents per money and other valuables..

They dollar fell or rose. The rebate of gallon in September. The installa- on Chinese, tion of the Texas Oil Co. at Tsun proceeded to ransack the hut, after, ten cents per gallon which they fled.

spirit locally distilled was with-

Wan was completed during the year. areas at least, but, no matter what

Oplum. When they had gone, she ran out drawn. The number of gallons of She met a Chinese spirit paying duty increas- the extent of their military aggres-and shouted "Ah ma." alon they will be unable to establish fellow-countryman, Lok Pak-ling, toed by 124,000.

were slightly increased in February whom she related what had happen-

Tobacco.

to compensate partially for the fall any permament stability and the ed. Her grand-mother, living about Duties collected amounted to in exchange, and the price of danger of fresh revolts will retard 30 yards from the scene of the $3,364,522.18 net ag against $2,620,- Kamshan opium was again raised

and they were 074.17 net for last year. the development and progress of the crime, also came,

No true towards the end of the year. As

country.

The Soviet threat per later joined by the girl's uncle, comparison can however be made, was anticipated sales decreased, but

Lok Kam-qui.

because the collection of duties was, less than might have been expected, sists and the rumours that the anti- The uncle and Lok Pok-ling to placed on a sterling basis in Feb- and the net financial result was The warning issued by Dr. Manchukuo troops are being aup-gether went to the Au Tau Police ruary, and the duties themselves $8,019,724.02 83 compared with Wellington Koo that war not only plied with Russian munitions have Station, and reported the affair.

were raised in September, after $2,885,286.90 In 1930. in the Far East but a world war is not been disproved. Whether they Police officers arrived on the scene, having been lowered on the introSources of Illicit Opium. (A) and were bugily engaged in taking duction of the sterling basis of col- Prepared Opium-Macao remained imminent cannot be disregarded as lack foundation or not is immaterial)

statements. The body was later lection. Considering that the the chief source from which pre- a merely alarmist statement and his to the issue as the Soviet interest removed to the Kowloon Mortuary prices were greatly advanced owing pared opium was smuggled into the declaration is timely in view of the in Manchuria is too well-known to

Description of Men.

to the fall in exchange, the collec-Colony, supplying 61 per cent, out decreasing interest in Manchuria need verification. Japan has The girl's description of the two tion must be considered most satis of the total seized. With one ex- consequent upon the settlement at long road ahead in its annexation of men, which she gave to the Police, factory; the weights on which duty ception this was all of the Red

Is that the first man's face was pox was paid being only slightly less' Lion brand. Shanghai and the slackening of sen- Manchukuo, and may find the marked, and he was dressed in black sational news, from the new "puppet League less impotent than generally clothing. The second man wore

Return of Liquor Duty Cellected During the Year 1931. a white pair state."

The tension in the Far thought when the Lytton Commis-ja white singlet and

European Type Liquor. SMOKING JACKETS, PEKING JEWELLERY,East has to a large extent béension's report is finally compiled. lessened by the Japanese withdrawal American opposition will not be and RUGS.

from Shanghai but the position in lightly treated and the United Manchuria is still fraught with States has intimated that its or- dangerous possibilities. The Lytton iginal stand-that it will not extend Commission has just returned from recognition to the new State will be a long survey of conditions in the maintained.. new State but the report will not! reach Geneva until the end of the summer. In the meantime thei League can do little unless any freshi crisis occurs. What news does'

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LAND OFFICER'S REPORT.

TRANSACTIONS FOR 1931 AMOUNT TO $137,746,898.57.

$137,746,898.57,

The report is as follows:

Registration.

The report of the Land Officer for the year 1981 shows that the Quarantine restrictions - have total of land transactions register issue from Manchuria, although not been imposed against arrivals fromed at the Land Office amounted to as sensational as formerly is dis-Shanghai on account of Cholera. turbing and it is evident that grave]

Suffering from food poisoning, international complications may two Chinese, Leung Choi, a inale, occur at any moment. Banditry is and Leung Chui-tai, a female, both During the year 6,181 Instru- continuing on a large scale, and in living at 5, Kimberly Road, were ments were registered under the many parts of the country terrorism, admitted to the Kwong Wah Hos-provisions of Ordinance No. 1 of prevails, with unruly bands of rufis not regarded as serious.

[pital last night. Their condition 1844,-an increase of 664 on the

preceding year. |flans aubjecting the peasants to all

The total number of instruments

*

•

the horrors of war. The Japanese Graduation Day for pupils of the registered under the provisions of Chun-Shing Typewriting School. the abovementioned Ordinance trumps are driving against the in-will be celebrated at Messrs. Lane, (since 1844) to the end of the year surgents and now that the matter Crawford's restaurant on Saturday 1981 was 129,074.

ig engaging the full attention of next, at 4 p.m. The Hon. S. W. The total consideration on sales, Tokyo the offensives are developing Ts'o will be present to distribute mortgages, surrenders and miscel- into large-scale movemente.. Ac-the prizes and certificates.

laneous land transactions registered ing, the Land Office amounted to cording to the reporta, most of During this fortnight a number $137,746,898.57. which are of Japanese origin, the of very interesting lectures... on

Crown Leases. "rebela" have been inflicted with health matters will be delivered by 517 Crown Leases were frsued

Rum

Class of Liquor.

Amount of Duty

Gallons.

collected.

. cts.

Ale, Beer, Cider and Stout Brandy

336,580

805.880.77

11,921

108,898.09

Whisky

22,782:

212,771,58

Gin' and 'Cocktail

18,287

123,492.67 ·

· 1,817

16,615.70

Champagne and Sparkling Wine Claret

3,208

'50,515.23.

2,872

13,821.21...

5,356

32,060.31

Sherry, Madeira and Malaga Vermouth

2,219

18,583.75

.4,881

22,360.03

1,870

29,504.04

2,705

43,256.93

Spirituous Liquor

1.385

21,406,84

4,962

22,662.77

Difference on over-proof,.

fractions and arrears of duty

*48.33°

Total

415,775

81,015,873.16

Port Wine

Liqueur

Spirits of Wine-

. Miscellaneous

Note: Fractions of a galion are not shown in this Table.

41 More Marriages In 1931

228 CEREMONIES IN COLONY

many defeats, which oven If ex-some of the local Chinese medical during the year, agar ase of brated in the Colony, according to the annual re-

Fees

aggerated are mostly authentic. Chinese Y.M.C.A. Commencing 854.

men under the auspicles of the the previous year a decrease This is not surprising in view of this evening at 8 p.m. Dr. Li Shu- the superior military equipment and fan will speak on "Public Health organization of the invaders. The Measures and the People of Hong Japanese are becoming so firmly

Kong entrenched that they

make now {scarcely-no effort to cloak their con- trol of the Manchukuo. The recent decree that Chinese not born in Manchuria will be treated as for- eigners, is not only imp

is also illegal and

CURIOUS STORY FROM AMERICA

Faris May 24 New York: In spite of it being den

the White House,; the Herald insists that President, edfetatorship

During the year 1931 228 marriages were cele-

port of the Registrar of Marriages, which is as follows:-

given in Table L

Feek.

The total amount of fees collected

Marriages, (exclusive of the New Territories) Amounted to $118,598.00 being an The number of Marriages- celer

The total amount of Fees received. increase of $1,748.25 on the preced-brated in the Colony during the year ing year. was 228 (of which 104 were between under the Second Schedule of the Land Registration Fees in the Chinese persons) as compared with Marriage Ordinance, 1875, was New Territories amounted to 187 (and 85) respectively in 1980 $2,705 as compared with: $2,059.00 $8,467.50 and Crown Lease Fees to an increase of 41 Particulars are in 1980-an increase of 3846.00. 890.00.

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