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SINCERE CO. SENSATION Arrests Follow Managing Director's Murder Graf Spee Sails PERFUME FACTORY COST OF CIVIL

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Berlin, To-day....

The German battleship “Admiral Graf Spee" sailed from Kiel for Spain last night.

Official reason for the move is the "safeguarding of German interests."

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MANAGER IN

CUSTODY

SERVICE SALARY LEVY ABANDONMENT

The "China Mail" was officially informed this morning that the

Service salaries

as from July 1, will cost the Government rather

The chief manager of Sincere's Perfumery abandonment of the levy on Civil Manufactory at Kennedy Town is one of three men arrested by the police in connection with the mur- less than $200,000 for the half- der, in Prince Edward Road, on May 13, of the man-year. aging

HONG KONG'S ME virector of the Sincere Company, Limited, segle of levy was

NEW FINANCIAL SECRETARY

First official details of the proposals for the financial re- organisation of the Hong Kong Government, in con- nection with which Mr. Sydney Caine, of the Colon- ial Office, is expected in the Colony on or about July 22, are disclosed in a memoran- dum prepared under the direction of the Secretary of State for the Colonies.

The total reduction in salaries Mr. David Chen See (Chen Lai-tsun).

Icalculated on

a basis of $450,000 This sensational development of the stabbing for the whole year, but this figure outrage which so deeply shocked the Chinese com-artificial exchange rate of 16:1, included the $60,000 saved by the munity at the time of the Coronation celebrations, which is not to be varied.is actually occurred nearly three weeks ago, al-The cost of the abandonment of though disclosed for the first time to-day.

the levy, therefore, will be appro- ximately $195,000.

THREE APPEARANCES WHICH THE ARRESTED MEN HAVE MADE BEFORE THE KOWLOON COURT HAVE BEEN BATHING PICNIC CANCELLED IN SECRET SESSIONS, THE POLICE HAVING PRESERVED The Australian and New Zealand SILENCE ON THE SUCCESS OF THEIR INVESTIGATIONS FOR Association's moonlight bathing REASONS CONNECTED WITH FURTHER ENQUIRIES NOW picnic arranged for to-night has been. BEING VIGOROUSLY PURSUED:

It will be recalled that imme- diately after the outrage, the po- lice offered a reward of $1,000 for information leading to the apprehension and conviction those responsible.

of

The three persons now in cus- tody are:

Mr. Li Fuk-chong, chief manager of Sincere's perfumery manufactory

The proposed changes are ap-at Kennedy Town, plicable to all Colonial. Govern- ments under the control of the Colonial Office.

the

Ko Ah Tak, unemployed, and Lung Wong, also described unemployed.

as

They will make a further appear- ance before the Magistrate in Kow- loon at 10a.m. to-morrow morning

murder.

ALLEGED ACCESSORY

as an

the

MEMBER OF BOTH COUNCILS

The essential feature of the or- ganisation is the inclusion in central machinery of the administra-on charges in connection with the tion of a financial officer fitted by training and experience to advise upon the whole financial and econo- It is learned that Mr. Li will be mic policy of the Government. This charged

accessory to officer, who will be given the title. of crime and that the other two men Financial Secretary, will be a mem-will face charges of murder:

It will be recalled that the fatal ber of both the Executive and Legis- lative Councils and normally act as attack occurred between 9.30 p.m. Government spokesman on financial and 10 p.m. on the evening follow- and economic questions. He will, in ing the Coronation, when the late fact, introduce the annual Budget. Mr. Chen, who resides at No. 44, The responsibility for collecting Sung Street, Kowloon City, was re- and accounting for revenue and ac- turning to his home, having travell- counting for expenditure will be per-ed by bus from the ferry. formed by a separate organisation

ATTACKED FROM BEHIND under an Accountant-General which He alighted in Prince Edward will become the function of the Co- Road and was about to turn into lonial Treasurer.

Sung Street when his assailant,

The normal field of recruitment | who rushed upon him from behind, for the higher financial staff will be stabbed him twice in the back. the Colonial Administrative Fervice, -The victim, who was 60 years of though officers of any branch of the service who are suitable for this class of work will not be excluded.

age, was taken to the Kowloon Hos- pital in a critical condition, and passed away at 4 a.m. the following morning.

The system the memorandum states, can be applied in its entirety only in the large Dependencies, but ed in the smaller Dependencies as similar principles should be follow- far as circumstances permit.

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