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EIGHTY - EIGHTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION

HONG KONG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1932.

WOMEN TRAFFICKERS IN CHILDREN.

Between Kwong Chau

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Wan & Hong Kong.

POLICE COURT SEQUEL.

CANTON NAVAL OVERHAUL.

New Head Conducts Investigation.

CREWS FOR HONG KONG.

Drastic measures are being taken to improve the standard of the Canton Naval forces, 8c-

FORMER PRESIDENT'S

WIDOW HERE.

Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt A Visitor.

GUEST OF G.O.E.

In the Central Police Court this cording to a naval, official who Mrs. Roosevelt, widow of the morning before Mr. Wynne-Jones, came down from Canton to the Detective-Inspector F. W. Shaftain Colony an important business re

late Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, „a' described one of two Chinese cently.

former President of the United women charged, as a trafficker in

Under the command of Mr. States, arrived in Hong Kong children plying between Hong Kong and Kwong Chau Wan. Both Chang Tse-ving, it is said that this morning on the Dollar liner, defendants pleaded guilty to taking the personnel of the whole fleets.s. President Cleveland, from

Manila. is being investigated. with A part in the sale of a 4-year-old Chinese boy for $260, and were view to removing the dissatisfied Seen by a "China Mail" re- fined $250 or three months' gaol in default each.

element.

porter this morning, Mrs. Roose The gunboats at present in velt declined to give an inter- Hong Kong harbour are expect-view; but stated that she thought The second woman was caught ed to leave for Canton in a few Hong Kong a most charming at 77 Shanghai Street in the act of days. The South Western Poli- place. putting through the sale. She had

tical Council kas appointed been actually hawking the child in Mr. Chu Chiu-sun, Lee Sin-kun, Roosevelt said, was to meet her The object of her visit, Mrs. Yaumati. She had in her posses and Lee Man-hing, to consult two sons who are arriving on the sion a deed of presentation for with Admiral Chan Chak, and President Hayes to-morrow. She $260. The first defendant was also to negotiate with the Hong will return with them to Manila subsequently traced at a house in

Kang Government, and it is now on the same ship, and spend a Square Street..

stated that arrangements are complete for the removal of the vacation with them. ships to Canton.

The second defendant stated to the Police that the boy's parents were both dead and he was brought from Kwong. Chau Wan by his grandmother.

The boy claimed that his parents were alive, 1 am not at all satis- fied that the boy was handed over

While in the Colony she is the Two hundred officers and crew guest of His Excellency, Major- are expected to, arrive in the General J. W. Sandilands. C.B.. at Flagstaff Colony to-morrow to supplement C.M.G., D.S.O.,

House. the crews already on the ships.

As Mrs. Roosevelt's visit, is purely informal, no official func-

by his grandmother" he concluded. MAJESTIC CAPTAIN. tions have been arranged in her

"1" have a suspicion that he was kidnapped. We will try and trace the parents through the Po Leung Kuk. This is not a case where the people are genuinely in need of I am satisfied that both these people are traffickers children, principally the second de- fendant. The first defendant is more of a go-between."

money.

in

PROMOTED.

Commodore Of White Star Fleet.

honour.

She was met on the ship at 9 a.m. this morning by Mr. J. E. Black. Vice-Consul for U.S.A.. and Captain D. R. M. Cameron.

Mrs. Roosevelt will be the guest of Mr. Douglas Jenkins, the United States Consul- Captain Eltrant, Commander of General, at a luncheon party at White Star Liner "Majestic," has the latter's residence," """Over- been appointed Commodore of the bays," Repulse Bay, to-day, "White Star Fleet," Captain

London, Yesterday.

DANGEROUS DRIVING Eltrant has been in the service of SPIRIT WON'T SLAP

IN WEST POINT.

Sergeant Howell Injures Knee.

for

Convicted on a summons dangerous 'driving in Queen's Road West, So Wing Taй the driver of a hire car, was fined $25 by Mr.

Schofield in the Central Magistracy this morning.. Sergeant Howell prosecuted, and stated that the de- fendant's car was the last of three cars parked on the wrong side of the road, facing east. On the Ser- geant's approach the defendant's car shot out across the road. In avoiding a head-on collision, Ser-

the White Star line for over 30. years-British Wireless Service.

The quadruple screw, steamer, Majestic was built in 1921, at Kam- burg, Germany, and was formerly named the Bismarck. She has & gross tonnage of 58,621 tons, and a net tonnage of 26,249 tons.

The Majestic runs between South- ampton and New York.

JUDGE HOLDS.

But Plumbers Might Be Tempted.

Vienna, July 5,

In a Vienna, local court the magistrate was called upon to de-.

SHANGHAI CENSUS cide whether a box on the ears was

RETURNS.

Population Gains

Over May.

Shanghai, July 31.

administered at a seance by a dis-i embodied spirit or by a corporate Viennese plumber. The latter was charged by the plaintiff, Herr Franz, with hitting him in the face during the seance.

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"It was a phenomenon," declar- ed the plumber, Herr Thomas, to According to the latest census the magistrate. "It was the spirit geant Howell turned left injuring compiled by the Greater Shanghai Amru which hit him. He never did his knee against the dash board of Municipal Bureau of Public Safety, like Franz

the car..

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the population of the Chinese city Franz sprang up angrily, crying: for the month of June totala "That's a libel!" The magistrate 1,496,334 persons of whom 1,486,367 protested that he could really not are Chinese and 9,967 foreigners. decide as to the likes or dislikes The number of householders is of a disembodied spirit. 308,820, consisting of 301,648 Chin- ese and 2,172 foreign families.

When Fraulein Hermine, the medium, testified that the defen-

- MINOR MOTOR ACCIDENTS.

While driving His car in Bonham Road, near High Street yesterday, Mr. R. P. Shaw, of Pokfulam Road, knocked down a Chinese girl. She

A comparison with the preced-dant could easily have struck the shows an in-plaintiff unobserved in the darken- ran away without being treateding month of May

Knocked down by a hire car increase of 218,628 persons and room, the magistrate said: Hollywood Road, a Chinese sustain-37,816 households-Kue Min.

ed injuries which may prove to be serious. He is now lying in the Government Civil Hospital. The car was driven, by Yue Chu-sang, of 475 Hennessy Road,

“Thank you. Now I can pronounce. sentence. Firstly I declare Amru, although he is not formally The Hon. Mr. R. M. Henderson charged, to be entirely Innocent. Director of Public Works) was Secondly, I fine Herr Thomas 100 yesterday sworn in A6 87 official schillings (£4), or four days' im-

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