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HONG KONG, TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1933.

Rail Versus Road Transport DIED RATHER THAN

Government Delays Discussion.

INTENSE CONTROVERSY.

* REVEAL HOARD.

By Youths.

port should be implemented with- Tortured And Hanged out delay and before Christmas | the Government was repeatedly] questioned in Parliament as to its intention. Ministers, how-

Little Rock, Arkansas. ever, had not had time to con-

A treasure hunt in which the sider so big a question, and the .: London. Strong pressure is being only answer was that no state- American Red Cross had the brought on the Government to ment could at present be made. charts and did the digging has Since Christmas both sides netted some £1.200 in gold and take action on the report of the

marshalling their currency from hiding places on! Salter Commission which recent-have been ly investigated the question of forces and carrying on an inten- the North Arkansas, farm of R. F. Leigh, ori aged recluse, who rail and road transport competi- sive propaganda.

and hanging suffered torture tion. The railway interests had The railway companies are ask-

rather than reveal his secret to long been complaining that they ing that a depitation should be would be unable to carry on received by the Prime Minister, anyone else. against the goods transport ser-and urge that the whole ques- vices by road and had insisted tion of unemployment is raised Leigh's hilly farm where his body that these services did not bear by the issue, since the dismissal was found hanging from a rafter their proportionate share of taxa-of employees is a possibility if, in his home.

the road transport competition The search, for which minute In its report the Commission continues on the present unre- directions had been left, was con- ducted by officials of the Red, took the line that the taxation stricted basis.

tion.

The "treasure'* was found on

or heavy road haulage vehicles | On the other hand the interests Cross, a beneficiary of the Leigh should be so increased as to equal which run commercial motor ser-estate. The directions were con- ize the competition between rail vices have not been idle and a tained in a letter left by Leigh and road services, its recommen- vigorous opposition to any im- to be mailed to the Red Cross in dations in some cases involving mediate implementing of the Washington after his death.

Two youths confessed that they an increase in taxation of as Salter Commission's report has much as 600 per cent.

been organized. The whole pro-killed the eccentric recluse in an The report was presented to blem will come very much to the effort to force him to reveal the the Government some months fore in Parliament in the near hidding place of his money. He ago and ever since a furious con- future, and the Government's died with the secret left in the! troversy has raged over it. Those decision is being eagerly awaited unopened letter, and the youths who support the railway's case by those most immediately in- found only a few dollars and an

fold watch. Reuter. have been insisting that the re- terested. Reuter.

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