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BRUARY 24, 1931.

HONDOR-CAR MANIAC.

SILVER PROBLEM CONFERENCE.

INDIA'S GREATEST PROBLEM.

FRAN NAVA

--EAN YOUTH ORDERET

THE CANE.

CHINA'S FINANCE MINISTER INTERESTED.

BOYCOTT OF FOREIGN CLOTH.

FRANCES

ING OTHER PEOPLES

CARS.

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*(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

(THROUGH, REUTER'S ·AGENCY.]

-NANKING, Feb. 23.

Mr. T. ViSoong expressed great interest, when interviewed regard ing the resolution of the Executive Committee of the International] Chamber of Commercé calling upon members to urge their Governments to take the silver problem "into early consideration,..

Mr. Soong stated that if an Inter national Conference on silver should be held the National Government "would be ready to participate and

would co-operate in any realistic. measures leading to stabilisation of the value of silver.

ELUSIVE EUGENE CHEN.

"

(Wah Taz Yat l'an.) '

SHANGHAI, Feb. 23. Since his return from Nanking, Mr. Eugene Chen's movements are being kept secret,

Anukdaban, Feb. 23.

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Fleming, aged 15 years. as defendant at the Kow agistracy yesterday. whe i charged with having a The boycott of foreign cloth is Mr. Hendy 16, driven privats car, the greatest problem before India,der and th à without an appropriate according to the latest pronounce sentatives, Hence and without the ment by Gandhi, writing in the ford and M Naviran, his vernacular weekly. this niorhin Sion of the issuer, Dr.

Gandhi appeals to the mill-owners French Caby. to take foreign cloth from the mer tion. chants and give them cloth woven by their mills in exchange.

He suggests that the mill-owners whereby Fr. night dispose of foreign cloth in smaller mai foreign countries, burn it or keep Italy, is pr it until Swaraj is attained, when conchided. they can ask the new Government to compensate them for any loss.

BOMBAY WAR COUNCIL

ARRESTED.

SALUTING THE NATIONAL FLAG.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

BOMBAY, Feb. 22,

The police to-day arrested 400) Congress Volunteers, who formed

up on the Maidan, in the centre

This is that. Fran

V

ing was a charged with ridden motorcycle 10.8 Laichikok Roast on Febra-. without the permissim រ ner and without the neơn 4- river's license.

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efendant pleading guilty) THE darges, Sub-Inspector Ma

ho prosecuted, asked that a view be taken of the give, Inspector Nicol BEWILDE department, Kowloon, seid 1027 three cars were taken defendant. - hast admitt Ë

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NEW TA the first two and way r

Peking.

when driving the third The

ar was a two seater" Odsng0-

of the city, to salute the National are o fact nd the second a five-sal r. truvg of an zeember 9 last year, he took flag."

present siti.

It is learned that, accompaniedbers of the so-called Banbay War Those arrested include the mem-

by his wife, Mr. Chen left here last Council. night by train for an unknown destination,

EX-GOVERNOR-GENERAL

OF KOREA ACQUITTED.

DID NOT PARTICIPATE IN RICE TRANSACTIONS.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

TOKYO, Feb. 23. General Yamanashi, former Governor-General of Korea, who the Procurators on November 21 last recommended for a sentence of 18 months hard. Inbour in con-

tion with his alleged particips. tion in the Fusan Rico Exchange scandal has been acquitted, hav

ug been found "Not Guilty" by the Tokyo District Court.

It will be recalled that General Yamanashi's indictmont followed the exposure of a series of dada in high places during the

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Tannka Administration, these being revealed. shortly after the forma tion of the present Hamaguchi Cabinet in July, 1920.

KWANGTUNG'S LOW

TREASURY:

COMMISSIONER STRIKES PESSIMISTIC 'NOTE.

(Wah Tez Fat Poo.).

CANTON, Feb. 23.

A pessimistic note was struck by Fan Ki Mo, the Canton Financial Commissioner, regarding the Kwangtang financial position in a speech delivered at the weekly memorial service held in Kwang- tung Provincial Government House this morning.

SKI-ERS BURIED NEAR INNSBRUECK.

RESCUERS ABANDON SEARCHĮ

FOR THREE.

י

the country nbolition of

ear, but the tesnen ish to prostute..

GLYN'S HATS

FOR MEN.

EVERY "GLYN" HAT possesses that little extra that makes the differ. ence in hat value over other makes, no matter whether it is hat at $19.50 or higher price the difference is discernible.

THE

Stocked in Soft Felts, Bowlers,

7 weed Hats, Tweed Caps, Double Terais

··and

Silk Hats.

.id

ers, includi. Butters:-Defendant sens whose busi

about such

a car manine

to be nobo Inspector Sicol: It looks (can Iell

has in fact Merchants dernant:1 tors themse

1. Defendant, wag, whip, ed

Set-

a father on one occasion ur 2. stølen a Studebaker cas

Butters: The defindent (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] on the poi understand that it is a fair

A month

+ owners of the ears if he VIENNA, Feb. 22. that 39 our Five ski-ers were buried by n controlled I and drives them withou avalanche near Innsbrucek, Finance B their permission, and it is

Que crawled out and another way abolishe

ut fale on his parents. Tw tre dug out by rescuers, but his legs them had

012 the first out!! were fractured,

games, ances Tax Buren, med in the second. Tax Bureas pionta liki functioning

The search for the three others themselves were buried. was abandoned after six rescuers

The latter were safely dug out.

LANDSLIDE IN ITALY. WOMAN AND FIVE CHILDREN BURIED.

{THROUGH LEUTEIL'S ADENOT.']

NAPLES, Feb. 22.

A woman and five children were buried in a landslide in Pusilippo, but were safely dug out, although one child died later.

SNOW AVALANCHE IN

SPAIN.

SIX PERSONS KILLED,

(THROUGH BELTER'S AGENCY.}

MADRID, Feb. 99. Six persons have been killed in a snow avalanche in Huelda.

nel

cil uth ANDARD OIL CO.

these were soon ng the enme into

the secti

ported tha

CHANGES...

farmed our P. W. PARKER TO BE A

without 1

privilege ft

out good investment. station; ato railway, a published' i

agency, on

DIRECTOR.

LEFT HONG KONG

YESTERDAY,

being elected a dister of completely i Standard Oil Company of New ing on a leeting lik, Mr. P. W. Parker, of the Form

branch of the Com any, New 1. the with Mrs. Parker, sailed On Janua

in the Colony yesterday at che in the Inc

sient Grant en rate 10 New Consolidate matches, flok where Mr. Parker will take cigarettes his official duties.

from Janu he whole of the staff the

Special Co

be impored branch of the Standar! Oil gulations h apany entertained Mr. Parker by Sanking although th a fin last Saturday at

Troops.

'(THROVON REUTER'S AGENCY.]

PALERMO, Feb. 92. Sicily has been almost isolate rom Italy for the past two days as the result of one of the nost s gover

the

Restaurant. The

Twenty South

CYCLONË STRIKES SICILY,

new taxesh China ISOLATED FROM ITALY FORing to the

g was presided over by Str. II TWO DAYS.

agreement which it wi

Schultz, who suceeds Mr. ly for the rker is the position of C neral that collecter South China Depar ment, Tux would r. Parker has peurly rs association with the February 1 in department of the Con pany, violant cyclones ever experienced. fines, by ing joined in June, 19:

Torrential rains and strong galer vade taxa have devastated fields and orchards, new tax or trees being uprooted and the rail Plans were a ays and telegraph services being collectors 2 The peopic of Palermo, which match fac

Fan Ki. Mo said that no financial | interrupted,

cotton

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made Assistant General Man- in Hong Kong 1921, a td be

General Manager in

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assistance could be obtained. to place, has suffered most, are using works, in a CROWN LAND SALES.

boats, owing to the flooding of all the rivers in the Catania Plain having burst their banks."--

Many houses have collapsed, four

GUN-RUNNING IN EAST

AFRICA..

OPERATIONS AGAINST

and Chingy

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SOFT FÈLTS in Grey, Drab, Fawn, Brown, etc., with the Smart Bet brim or Snap edge. Lined or Unlined.

WORLD

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Other qualities

$12.50, $15:50

Sole Agents :

Wm. POWELL, Ltd.

make up the big deficit now sus tained by the Kwangtung financial

Newly mai OD PRICES FOR KOW LOON to be subj budget. The deficiency caused by

LOTS. Tax after. meeting Contral Government compeople have been killed, and num. alady in

Thr lots of Crown lang xitust- mitments was estimated-nt about arous livestock has been lost. within 15

also would at Kuw.oor were sold-at--the- 82,310,000 a month, while that in

own-Land Office-yesterday in pest. meeting the Provincial Government

In a preje presence of a large number of commitments was about $830,000 a

un-Januaryespective buyers.

2441, ter, Mr. Kowloon Inland Lot N month.

This was the financial

the new (unted at Ti Nan Stas it was position in Kwangtung, and the

len, quoted to Mr. Li Wan Tong of 234, Kwangtung Government must re-

SMUGGLERS,

[there are 1 cince Edward' Boad, for 48,500. habilitate its financial position.

if Jesies ui the upset price was $143% The (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

or four of and big an area. of about 1,332′ sq. According to Fan Ki Mo, the

inch preet and its annual restais 80s. only, method open to the adminis-

JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 9.

Kowloon Inland Lot N only impo tration is drastic retrenchment of Gun-running and drug-smuggling places of t was sold to Mr: Fung Y. Tang military expenses. The imposition from Portuguese Fast Africa into on, and 170. Keelung Street, for 19,000, British territory has become there theyfter some spirited bidding. The of special taxes to replace tikin rampant that Colonel Colliers, the any offer pet price was $14,350. To land could not improve the situation, Chief of the South African Criminal without pitunted at Tai San Sixt and

Department, hat other as an anaval rental of 98. athe estimated receipts from thess Investigation

New Kowloon Island & taken personal charge of the opera For instas, 160, situated at

product an

Wone Chuk new sources would be very smalltions against the smugglers, in comparison with the big deficits. Sixty armed Union police ec. cocoon is Street, attracted consider ble at- Bidding A MĚ nt

50

2442

No.

He said that General Chen Tsai countered on the borders to-day a tax on silkention.

official P. 17,325 and was eventually raised

snocked

Tong had promised to cut" hand of drug and gun-runners, 31.047,000 6 month from the Kwang. conveying opium valued at thou presumed a $31,000 before it was

Consolidativeszter Me Chin Sin Wax of $1, "Afg" "mmary" "Tutimates, begining band

ed from 21 Des Voeux Road Centr The from March, The Kwangtung Tren land. sury, however, was now responsible During exciting chase, the join: pet and has an area of abo; 11,550

Ministry. for the maintenance of the two police fired upon Captain Coetsee, divisions of troops now participat, of the C.I.D., thinking, he was one cotton mill, fret and its annuof ›ental is ing in the anti-Red campaign in of the smugglers. Fortunately, thetration to Kiangsi.

shots missed him.

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1.

(Contini

10, Ice House Street.

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