MODNING
TO-DAY'S NEWS.
A Summary for the Busy Man.
PRINCIPAL EVENTS.
Hongkong.
The rains have appreciably added to the reservoir contents. Figures are given on
Page 12. The Chinese sugar merchants seek a fixed limit on new water charges and an assurance of the measure being temporary.
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A description of the Island reser- voirs is given on
Page 12. The present incidence of typhoid fever is no greater than it was last year.
Page 9. A further assurance regarding the purity of the water in the Praya tanks is given.
Page 12. Matters discussed at the Sanitary Board meeting are reported on
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Robert MacWhirter discusses local government.
Page 1. A picture of the new National City Bank of New York in Queen's Road Central appears on
Page 13. Two robbers were sentenced yester- day to four years and a flogging.
Page 12. At the end of the Kowloon mui- tsai case the owner of the girl was fined $100, the girl to be returned to her mother.
Page 7. The Revenue Department is on the scent of a big opium smuggling or- ganisation.
Page 9. Police intervention broke up a serious gang fight at Glenealy yester- day evening.
Page 8. Miss E. E. Majors was yesterday married to the Rev. R L. Bausum af Union Church, Kowloon. Page 8. The Criminal Sessions ended when a Chinese was sentenced to three years' hard labour for burglary and returning from banishment. Page 3. The hearing of the manslaughter case in which the driver of a motor lorry is charged with causing the death of a Chinese in Nathan Road near Waterloo Road was continued before Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith. Page 3. A Hongkong junk with a cargo of rice and rice husk for Kaukong sank at the mouth of the Canton River above Taishan on Saturday. Page 15. Correspondents write regarding Currency Problems, Office Hours, Bus Services, Traffic Control, Rents, Musical Instruments.
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The Far East.
The Soviet has declined France's offer to mediate in the Soviet-Chinese conflict.
Page 10 Both China and Russia have given assurances that they will abide by the Kellogg Pact.
Page 10. Japan is not in favour of America taking the initiative in mediating between China and Russia. She re- gards herself as slighted.. Page 10. Chiang Kai-shek's manifesto, Am- erica thinks, is calculated to injure China in world opinion. Page 10. The C.E.C. of the Soviet urges Com- munists in other countries to call a
strike against "Imperialist steps taken against Russia." Page 10.
The Siberian mails have been sus- pended until further notice. Page 10. Britain will shortly reply to China on the subject of extraterritoriality. Page 10. Sixty-two people are said to have perished in the collision between the Hsin Kong and Tatsuno Maru.
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been
Page 10. General Fan Shek-sang declines to serve on the Kwangsi Provincial Page 11. Council.
Mr. and Mrs. Yingkao Sun-foon are to be prosecuted in connexion with the opium seizure at San Francisco. Page 10.
Two Chinese steamers have captured by a Russian gunboat:
The Chief Steward of the City of Tokyo has died of plague in Shang- Page 15, hai.
The Kwangsi military want to re- open gambling dens at Wuchow.
:
General Cheung
retired.
Page 11. Kwong-ngai has Page 11.
Overseas.
Nineteen were drowned in a colli- sion between two fast boats on Lake Michigan.
Page 9. H.M. the King continues to im- Page 8. prove.
A German ship is reported to be carrying a consignment of munitions for China.
Page 10. The Soviet has decided not to ac- cept the British Government proposal to send delegates to London to dis- cuss diplomatic relations. Page 10. The British Association Conference has been opened-in Capetown. Page 9. Further representations have been made to America regarding the pro- Page 14. posed new Tariff Bill.
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