1932-08-10 — Page 12

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EIGHTY - EIGHTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION

HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1932.

WELL-TO-DO WOMAN VALUABLE SHARES IN

CONCEALS GIRLS.

Unregistered Mui Tsais "Found.

FINE OF $200 IMPOSED.....

THIEVES' LOOT.

Contractor's Home Is Entered.

U.S. BONUS ARMY DISBANDED.

Driven From Capital

By Troops.

BURN HOOVER EFFIGY!"

Johnstown, P.A., Aug. 6 The bonus army is no more. The last remnants of the 5,000

By rorcing the, lock of the stair- case door during the absence of the Remarking that her subsequent conduct was not satisfactory, Mr. occupants of the first floor, at 62 Schofield in the Central Police Court | Tak Ming Street, between mid-day this morning imposed a fine of $200 and 12.16 p.m. yesterday, thieves who came here from Washington on Chan Kwai, a married woman, entered and decamped with a haul after the US army drove the living at 3. Rednaxela Terrace, on of clothing, a gold watch. to the Bonus Expeditionary Force from two summonses for keeping two un total value of $76.50, also valuable the capital, numbering about 500, registered mui tsais, aged 10 and share certificates in various local assembled "to-day for final fare- 11, respectively.

companies.

wells, burned an effigy President Prosecuting. Mr. W. M. Thomp

The victim was Wong Chan-woon, Herbert Hoover and Andrew Mel- son, of the Secretariat for. Chinese building contractor. who sub-ilon, former secretary of the Affairs, said that on the first ocsequently made a report to the treasury and now ambassador to casion that an Inspector and lady Police.

London, and departed. inspector visited the house, the wc- Certificates for the following! Leaders vowed the veterans man claimed one of the girls as her shares were stolen:-100 Old China would be heard from at the forth, god-child.. The other girl was con-Light and Power Co. Ltd. 20 New coming elections, and when Con- cealed under a bed. The woman China Light and Power Co., Ltd.; gress reassembles, but many ob had deliberately lied, and deceitful, 500 Yick Ya Company; 258 Sincere servers believed that the failure of he added..

He had placed her on Company; 31 Ping On Company, the last bonus drive and the dismal Police bail of $400. Her husband and 130 Hong Kong Telephone Com-lot of the participants was reason- was in Canton and she was fairly pany. Other documents in the loot able assurance that the movement 'wealthy.

included one Hong Kong Inland Lot will die out.

Mr. Horace Lo, for the defence, lease, one share in the Kwong Tak The camp, which voted to dis- claimed that the woman did go to Wing Co., valued at $3,000 and one band after it was learned that as- the S.C.A. offices for the purpose Wing On Company receipt book.

of registering the girls, but was told

the period of registration was over. Regarding the offence AS

1.

technical his Worship imposed the SECRETS OF MOTOR

nominal fine of $5 on another mar- ried woman, Huf Yu Cheung, of 306 Lockhart Road, Wanchal, who was summoned for failing to register a Emul tsai.

EUROPEANS STEAL

FERRY RIDES.

EFFICIENCY.

Mr. C. D. Lambert Is Rotary Lecturer.

aistance would be provided in the form of transportation funds, be gan breaking up yesterday.

Automobile loads of veterans

were sent on their way in 142 cars. They were given a tank full of gasoline to each car, a quart of oil and a dollar bill apiece to start them out.

The bonus army formed as the closing weeks of Congress sp- proached, seeking passage of a bill A most interesting and instruc- providing for immediate cash re- tive lecture on the maintenance of demption of bonus certificates.

Governinerit officials estimated automobiles was delivered by Mr. C. D. Lambert, Locomotive Superin.this would cost $2,400,000,000, and tendent of the Kowloon-Canton Rail- the administration declared post- way, to members of the Rotary Club tively the government could not at the weekly tiffin yesterday after-stand the drain during these trying

times: Hoklo, Wong Mun, a noon. stranger in the Colony, was fined" He said that in the course of his,

A

Stranger In Colony Caught In Act.

·

WARFARE.

$2 by Mr. Fraser at Kowloon work as a repairer, he has on in- BLOCKADE MAY END Court this morning for the eva-numberable occasions, had to remon sion of payment of fare on the strate with more or less experienced Star Ferry.

owners and drivers about their The Chinese, who had plenty neglect of the most simple precau of money, explained that he had tions against accident and mechani- only been here for 4 days and cal derangement, and had to spend this was the first time he had

no little time in explaining why ridden on the ferry alone. He such precautions were desirable, did know how the ferries were and what might well happen i operated.

they were neglected.

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South American Nations' Pact.

PRESERVES NEUTRALITY.

Buenos Aires, Yesterday.

make efforts to preserve the peace.

Melicio Marcarenhas, gate- Rotarian A. L. Shields suggested Argentine, Brazil, Chile and Peru man, said he saw the defendant that the lecture should be translat have signed a pact of neutrality in "hanging around" the entranceed into Chinese, for the benefit of the dispute between Bolivia and for some time. Twenty or 30 those who would or could not read Faraguay, and at the same time people had passed through the the English version printed in the have called upon both nations to turnstile during that time and the prisoner should have known that. he must pay before board- ing the ferry. He said that upon turning his back, the de- Pendant had rushed in the en- trance but was caught before he got on board.

Inspector Elston. told the Court that a great many Euro- peans do the same thing and na- turally the Chinese try to copy them."

VISCOUNT CHELMSFORD APPOINTED

London, To-day Viscount Chelmsford,, former Viceroy of India, has been appoint ed Chairman of the Committee to. Investigate the acquisition of a 'permanent site for the British-In- dustries Fair. British Wireless Service.

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THE MODERN SPECIFIC AGAINST SCABIES & PRICKLY HEAT

SHOWERY.

The Royal Observatory's weather report for to-day states:-

Pressure is highest over the Pacific to the east of Japan, and relatively low over China. The typhoon is less than 100 miles to the east of Oshima, moving northward dying ho Forecast W. winds, derate; fair to showery.

By this pact the countries con- cerned agree not to recognise" any territorial conquests as the result of the outbreak of fighting."

An economic blockade of the belligerents is believed to have been unanimously agreed upon by the other South American States, in the [event of Bolivia Inslating on war

with Paraguay.

It is learned semi-officially that the Argentine Government in con- junction with the Governments other states is studying mocoercive measures to prevent night ST

ing.

A typhoon warning received from the Manila Observatory at 11.80 a.m. to-day states:

Typhoon in about Long 2180-

E and Lat. 28 N.; almost stationary.

The blockade is complicated by

the fact that the West Coast ports are

"more" Important than the River Plata trade with-Bolivia and Paraguay, but it is thought If the Argentine and Chile. the belligerents wil

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