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ADVICE TO NURSING MOTHERS

It is very important, doctors say, not to overtax your system immediately after the birth of a chiid. When you are feeding baby yourself, you should take. plenty of easily digested nourishi- ment.

For that reason, doctors throughout China recommend Horlicks. They have proved that Horlicks stimulates the appetite,

sound

and promotes

sleep strengthens the whole system. Also Horlicks increases the supply of maternal milk and ensures the success of breast feeding.

Get Horlicks to-day from your store.

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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 29, 1940

MURDER OF CONVICT RUBBER

AT STANLEY

SUPPLIES

AT THE CRIMINAL SESSIONS this morning, before Sir (SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL")

Atholl MacGregor, Li Shek-man was charged with the murder of a fellow prisoner, Lau Chuen, on February 4 at Stanley Prison. Mr. J. P. Murphy, assisted by Ins- the pector L. R. Whant, conducted

George She prosecution, while Mr. was for the defence.

The jury was composed of the fol- lowing:-Messrs. R. P. Phillips (fore man), M. Zak, J. G. Gardner, Tang Kwong-man, Ú Shui-ki, Chen King- shing, and Lam Chan-kwok.

Mr. Murphy said that accused and prisoners at Stanley. deceased were They had cells in different halls but accused managed to get into the same hall as deceased by pretending to the officer in charge that there was no vacant cell in his own hall.

On February 4, the day before Lau Chuen was due to be discharged, the their prisoners were taken out for usual exercise but Lau Chuen remain- ed in his cell. At about 11 a.m. the prisoners were paraded to return to

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OF THE "WEEKLY. SURVEY THE COMMODITY EXCHANGE" the warder had already | POINTS OUT THAT CHANGES IN cells and

AMERICAN opened various cells for the prisoners. THE SOURCES OF

assistant RUBBER SUPPLIES WHICH WERE A shout was heard. An warder who was outside the passage EXPECTED AS A RESULT OF THE would say he saw accused break from WAR HAVE FAILED TO MATER- the ranks and rush into cell No. 78. He IALISE, had something in his hand and was seen to make a downward thrust. The warder caught him and threw him to the ground. Accused raised his hand and the warder saw a knife. Accused,

overpowered, threw who was

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Deceased, sent to the Queen Mary Hospital, died on March 9, cause of death being pneumonia and bleeding as the result of a stab wound.

In a dying deposition, Lau Chuen said Li Shek-man called him an in- foriner.

Accused, medically examined, had a black eye and bruises on the buttock, but these were probably caused when he was thrown by the warder.

In the lower court, accused, in evi- dence, said he was attacked by de- ceased and that anything he did was in self-defence.

The case for the Crown was that ac- cused deliberately attacked deceased and that the motive was revenge.

The case is proceeding.

JAPANESE PRICE INDICES

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Tokyo, Yesterday. Wholesale commodity prices for

March in Japan's thirteen principal

cities went down by a half per cent.

from the previous month' but were period of 1939, and 34.6 per cent

9.2 per cent higher than in the same

higher than in June, 1937, the month prior to the outbreak of the China war.

Retail prices in Tokyo on 15 were 1.9 per cent higher last month.-Havas.

April than

ROYAL THANKS TO

CANADIANS

London, Yesterday.

The King and Queen have sent congratulations to General Mac- naughten, commanding Canadian forces in England, on the admirable manner in which the Canadian troops mounted guard over the Royal Palaces-Reuter.

However the figures for the first actually six months of the war have failed to substantiate this, and British Malaya has supplied since the war a large percentage of 'Ameri- can rubber,

According to this survey, Malayan shipments to Europe and Japan have dropped, and Europe has received 13.9 per cent, of its rubber from the United States in the form of re-ex- ports. Havas,

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These, say the Detroit police, were installed in an empty house by John Kasap, twenty-two, and John. Kur- sawa, twenty-one, who are said to have admitted killing two men for a total of £175.

Their method was to pretend they They Jurad wanted to buy a car.

the would-be

sellor to an empty@

house they owned in a lonely part

of the city, There they tortured'

him until he revealed

abouts of any valuables

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him.

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destruction

the house for

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