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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1932.

ACID THROWING CASE.

CROSS-EXAMINATION OF PROSECUTION WITNESSES.

The base in which a Chinese was charged before. Mr. Williams at | Central Magistrney for throwing. acid on a stall holder's foki was continued at Central Magistracy yesterday.

CHINESE SHIP RAMS HONG KONG STOCK

KINSHAN

120 CHINESE PASSENGERS

PANIC.

NEITHER VESSEL SINKS

BOTH DAMAGED."

The frantic screams of 120 panic- stricken Chinese, a shrieking,,siren and the roar of a ship's anctiór Ab an earlier hearing several being lowered conspired with the witnessrs had given evidence for dense darkness of the early hours the prosecution, but owing to the of Tuesday morning to delude the ührenor of counsel for the defence, suddenly-awakened passengers cf Mr. Hin Shing Lo, who was ong the .s. Kinshan. into the belief that azad elsewhere at the time, orase, a tragedy had occurred during the examination of these witnesses was] vessel'e voyage from Hong Kong reserved.

to Canton. They rushed on deck One of the witnesses, who stated with thoir fife-belte strapped the earlier hearing thes the Berount them to find that the Kin- fendant had procured the aid shan had been rammed by a Chin- through witness, was cross-examine a steamer named the Sun Wah, by Mr. La. He was asked how time and that the only danger was that police came to know that he was threatening the Chiness passengers 13ho person who "procured" the acid of the Sun Wah from panier-

· Witness said he did not know,

Lucky Escape. In answer to further questions, witness said he had known the in The Kinahan sustained damage above the water-ling, one of her jured person for over ten years.starboard cabins in which two The injured man might have been ladies were sleeping being stove i, happily without injury to the occupants. The vessel immediately

a member of the Wo Keo Club, hut

witness said that he himself er

MARKET.

YESTERDAY'S "OFFICIAL

QUOTATIONS."

A steady tono was manifest at the opening session yesterday morning, buyers being willing to my current

rates.

Sales.

Banks, $1,465.!

Hong Kong Blastrios, $10, Hotals (now), $14.02.19

Constructions (now), $1.85. Underwriters, $4.50% Powell, $3.60. Lands, 8822-

Buyers.

China Underwriters, $4.60. Chess Estates;" 805, Ewas, Tis. 161. Singapore Tractions, 3/ Cements (combined), $19.00. Cements (old), $124. Dairy Farms, $20,20, Constructions (now), $180. Providents (old), 85.30. Providents (new), 32.40, Trame: 899. 10. Canton Ices, 951,

Ropes, 815. Sinceres, 216,

Hong Kong Government Loan,

tainly was not. Witness went or dropped anchor and stood by the per cort. premium.

to say that he had no iden that the Wo Kee Club had been raided the police.

Sun Wah, which appeared to have had the worst of the oncounter.

An officer from the Kinshanı Friend of Injured Man,

went across to the Chinese ship, Witness. Being crossxamined and after consultation it was do further, Stated that he was a friend (cided to transfer the passengers of of the injured men.

the Sun Wah to the Kinshan, e Mr. Lo Is it reasonably for which operation was successfully anyone to go to you, a friend of accomplished after about three The injured person, in order to hours of bont work, buy the acid for the purper, of using it on the injured person?

His Worship: That' is a matter for comment.

Mr. Lo: I agred: (to witness). I put it to you the defendant never asked you to buy this acid.

Witness: He did. After other witnesses had been Peross-examined, the hearing was

again adjourned.

DOUBLED LIFE'S SPAN.

TRIBUTE TO WORK OF SCIENTISTS.

£1,000,000,000 SAVING.

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The mving of not less then £1,000,000,000 in twenty-five years;

The discovery of the value of

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These thrue vital servic:s humanity were due to the scientista,

When the Kinshan resumod ite voyage to Cantón. the officers, and enew of the Sun Wah were left on their ship, it being considered that she would be able to reach Cantor under her own steam without diff anity.

Australian Students.

Among the passengers of the Kinshan was a party of Australiap- University students who were going to Canton on a sight-seeing trip The Misses Emily and Florence Stirling, the two jadies who 00 cupied the stove-in cabin at the time of the collision, were cf the barty: they suffered no ill effects from their alarming experience.

It is understood that the damage sustained by the Kinshan will n necessitate her inmediate removal, to docks and her schedule for the Hong Kong-Canton run 18 not therefore being affected.

FISH

OUT OF WATER.

LATEST. ACQUISITION AT

*LONDON ZOO.

WALKING ON TREES.

Selleza,

Indo-Chinas (Próf.), 818. Indo-Chinas (Def.), 939. Evos, Tla, $161. Telophones (part paid), 328). Reabe, $39.

Hotels (old), 815.40. China Lights, 807. Entertainments (old), $15);

D'AGGERS FOUND ON FILIPINOS.

HUNDRED DOLLAR EINES IMPOSED.

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from

the 9.5.

Two Filipinos Florence D were each fined $100 as Central Magistracy yesterday when they were brought before Mr. W. Behofield and pleaded guilty to charges of possession of a dagger each.

Inspector G.A. Stimson said thu at 4 o'clock yesterday morning. Sergeant D. Clark was on patrol- in Main Street, Shaukiwan, when he noticed the two defendants leav

He ing a house pf ill repute. searched them both and on cach was found a dagger,

The defendants both cliamed that Filipino seamen always curri ed them things.

Inspector Stimson, in answer to the Magistrate, indicated that the police would be satisfied with a fine, provided such a fine was fair-

substantial.

His Worship imposed the fined.

declared Sir Frank E. Smith, Fish out of water are the latest Secretary of the Departmcat of attraction at the London Zoo, where Scientific and Industrial Research they arrived from Java, Walking stated above, and Secretary to the Royal Society. fish, or mud-skipper, as the new-,

in his Gluck tein Memorial Lecture comers are called, are very active

at the Institute of Chemistry.

"It is in association with the [biologist," added Sir Frank, “that the chemist has rendered the great- est pervice in the past century, "

Delicate Machine, «

on land, and wore observed in the Aquariam shuffling about on tree trunka and rocks.

In their native land they disport? themselves on the mud data of rivers, and actually climb the low branches of trees in search of in- secta.

Tall Used as a Spring..

P

RUSSIA'S BIG DEBT.

CREDITORS PRESSING

FOR PAYMENT.

That Soviet Russia has now run up foreign bill of about £215,000,000, due early this year, and that unless they are given re.... newed credit facilities the Bolshe viks will be faced shortly with

Discussing "the chemist's part in

For walking or shuffling promoting health and prolonging about they employ their particular life, Sir Frank said that in recently, muscular breast fius as legs, years the human machine had been these organs being lent at an angle discovered to be of such delicacy of like an elbow joint halance that. the absence of five millionths of a gram of d vitamin appreciably shortened its life.

The discovery of the valuable Vitamin D and the effect of food containing this vitamin on the cure it out again, it will contrive to leap Gnancial debacle, is assorted in au of rickets, be directly attributed to forward a distance of four or five article in the "Bulletin the off- the application of fundamental re-times its own length. In walking cial publication of the Freuch search on radiation:

the head is Taased on the breast.

When, however, the fish is pur zued, by rling its tail forward and then suddenly straightening

"The average expectancy of fin in an attitude rosembling that Society for Economic Study. life." he went on. has been of a frog. Ita oyes, situated on. This debt includes 2105,000,000 doubled in the last 100 years. This the top of the bend, are remark- tremendous indirect dividend to the able for their large size and the owing for importation, the rest of people is due to the chemist, the fact that, chamcleanlike, they are the tolal being for loana. biologist, and other scientific work capable of individual and extensive, Britain (come's second after Ger-

motion.

Great

"The mast outstanding pices of The climbing perch of India is many in the list of crediters, with puro research being conducted to another Aquarium inhabitant which £28,500,000.

day by chemists and physicists in is not incommoded by finding itself Russia in recent years bus heen that of atomic structure and radio- on terra firma, and in its native trying by all means to secure for land, especially in times of

She sells her goods

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"I do not wish to give stagger drought, may spend several days eign currency.,

ing fures, but there is little doubt out of water. Climbing Perch have to foreigners only for cash pay that the net results of pure research occasionally been known to climb. work on the constitution of atoms malm trees in the hope of discoverments and buys only on credit. In and molecules has resulted in the ing water in the cavity of the 1938 the bank had on hand scous £11,500,000 in fcreign currency, but saving in twenty-years of a sum of branches. not less than £1,000,000,000,

Such scansorial feats are made this year it has

only about Referring to the discovery of possible by the fast that the fins 27,000,000

With bills falling due, the Boviet rgen in the atmosphere, Sir Frank and gills of the fich are armed with ni that experiment with helium large spines, which are used a Goverment is begining to pe had led to the application of syn- climbing irons. Its power for liv- worried by its creditors, notably thetic atmorpheres in industrialing for considerable periods on land Poland Austria and Czecho nonditions involving shaormal rois due to its possession of a special Slovakia, and Soviet represcrita ruiratoder for example, in diving organ on each side of the head tires in Berlin are trying to chain operations.

which acts as a water receptacle. a postponement of payment.

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